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STORM, THEODOR WOLDSEN (1817-1888)

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STORM, THEODOR WOLDSEN (1817-1888) , See also:German poet and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Husum, in See also:Schleswig, on the 14th` of See also:September 1817. Having studied See also:jurisprudence at See also:Kiel and See also:Berlin, where he formed a See also:close friendship with the See also:brothers Theodor and Tycho See also:Mommsen, he settled in his native See also:town as See also:advocate; but, owing to his German sympathies, lost his See also:post 111 1853. Entering the Prussian service as See also:assessor at See also:Potsdam. he was appointed See also:district See also:judge at See also:Heiligenstadt. After the 1 In that See also:country its See also:numbers are said to have greatly diminished since about 1858, when a disastrous See also:spring storm overtook the homeward-See also:bound birds. The like is to be said of See also:Holland since about 186o. 2 To consult its convenience a See also:stage of some See also:kind, often a See also:cart-See also:wheel, is in many places set up and generally occupied by successive generations of tenants. 3 Its See also:common Dutch name is Ooijevaar, which can be traced through many forms (Koolmann, Worterb. d. ostfries. Sprache, i.'8, sub voce " Adebar ") to the old word Odeboro (" the bringer of See also:good "). In countries where the See also:stork is abundant it enters, largely into popular tales, songs and See also:proverbs, and from the days of See also:Aesop has been a favourite in See also:fable. Danish See also:War of 1864 Storm returned to Husum, and after filling various judicial appointments in the district, retired on a See also:pension and died at Hademarschen on the 4th of See also:July 1888. Storm is hardly less remarkable as a lyric poet than as a novelist. As the former, he made his debut, with the two Mommsens, with Liederbuch dreier Freunde (1843); but his Gedichte (1852; 12th edition, 1900) first obtained for him See also:general recognition.

As a novelist he gained his first See also:

great success with Immensee (1852; 51St edition, 1901); and this was followed by numerous other See also:short stories. He was never weary of See also:painting the scenes of rustic simplicity and the quiet joys of the See also:simple See also:life. He is at his best when dealing retrospectively with episodes and incidents from his own earlier life. Later he passed to psychological problems with Aquis submersus (1877) and Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (1884), and made a deep impression with his fantastic Schimmelreiter (1888). Storm's Gesammelte Schriften appeared in 19 vols. between 1868 and 1889; new edition in 8 vols. (1898). His See also:correspondence with E. See also:Morike was published in 1891, with G. See also:Keller in 1904. See E. See also:Schmidt, Charakteristiken, i. (1886); also P.

Schutze, Theodor Storm, sein Leben and See also:

seine Dichtung (1887) ; F. Wehl, Theodor Storm, ein Bild seines Lebens and Schaffens (1888); A. Biese, Th. Storm and der moderne Realismus (1888) ; and P. Remer, Theodor Storm als norddeutscher Dichter (1897).

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