Wolfgang Menzel
Wolfgang Menzel (June 21 or 26, 1798 – April 23, 1873), German poet, critic and literary historian, was born at Waldenburg (Wałbrzych) in Silesia.He studied at Breslau, Jena and Bonn, and after living for some time in Aarau and Heidelberg finally
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Wolfgang Menzel (June 21 or 26, 1798 – April 23, 1873), German poet, critic and literary historian, was born at Waldenburg (Wałbrzych) in Silesia.He studied at Breslau, Jena and Bonn, and after living for some time in Aarau and Heidelberg finally settled in Stuttgart, where, from 1830 to 1838, he had a seat in the Württemberg Diet.[1]
His first work, a clever and original volume of poems, entitled Streckverse (Heidelberg, 1823), was followed in 1824-1825 by a popular Geschichte der Deutschen in three volumes and in 1829 and 1830 by Rubezahl and Narcissus, the dramatized fairy-stories upon which his reputation as a poet chiefly rests. In 1851 he published the romance of Furore, a lively picture of the period of the Thirty Years' War; his other
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