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SPIELHAGEN, FRIEDRICH VON (1829- )

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SPIELHAGEN, See also:FRIEDRICH VON (1829- ) , See also:German novelist, was See also:born at See also:Magdeburg on the 24th of See also:February 1829. He was brought up at See also:Stralsund, where his See also:father was in 1835 appointed See also:government architect; he attended the gymnasium there, and studied See also:law, and subsequently literature and See also:philosophy, at the See also:universities of See also:Berlin, See also:Bonn and Greifswald. On leaving the university he became a See also:master in a gymnasium at I eipzig, but upon his father's See also:death in 1854 devoted himself See also:SPIKENARD 66y entirely to See also:writing. After See also:publishing Klara See also:Vere (x857) and Auf der Dune (1858), he obtained a striking success with Problematische Naturen (186o-1861), one of the best novels of its See also:time; it was followed by See also:Die von See also:Hohenstein (1863), In Reih' and Glied (1866), See also:Hammer and Amboss (1869), Deutsche Pioniere (1870), Allzeit varanl (1872), Sturmflut (1876), Plattland (1878),Quisisana (i 88o), Angeia (1881), Uhlenhans (1884), Ein newer Pharao (1889), Faustulus (1897) and Froigeboren (rgoo). Spielhagen's best See also:work was produced between the years 186o and 1876; he wrote nothing after Sturmfiut which can be compared with that powerful See also:romance. His novels combine two elements of especial See also:power, the masculine assertion of See also:liberty which renders him the favourite of the intelligent and progressive See also:citizen, and the ruthless See also:war he See also:wages against the self-See also:indulgence of the See also:age. His love of the See also:sea, derived from an See also:early See also:residence at Stralsund, introduces an See also:element of See also:poetry into his novels which is some-what rare in German fiction. Spielhagen's dramatic productions, Hans and Grete (1868) and Liebe See also:fur Liebe (1875), and others, cannot compare with his novels. From '878-1884 he was editor of Weslermann's Monatshefte. Spielhagen's Sdmtliche Werke were published in 1871. in sixteen volumes, in 1878 in fourteen volumes; his Samtliche Romane in 1898 (22 vols.), and these were followed by a new See also:series in 1902. See his autobiography, Finder and Erfinder (2 vols., 1890) ; also G. Karpeles, F.

Spielhagen (1889), and H. and J. See also:

Hart, Kritische Waffengange (1886).

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