Wilhelm Hauff (born November 29, 1802 in Stuttgart , Duchy of Württemberg , † November 18, 1827 in Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg ) was a German writer of Romanticism . He belonged to the circle of the Swabian poetry school.Wilhelm Hauff's father August Friederich Hauff was government secretary in Stuttgart. Wilhelm Hauff had an older brother Hermann (* 1800) and the two younger sisters Marie (* 1806) and Sophie (* 1807). After the death of his father in 1809, the mother moved with the children to her father Karl Friedrich Elsäßer in Tübingen in the Haaggasse. Hauff attended from 1809 to 1816, the Schola Anatolica , the then Tübingen Latin School , and after passing the state exam from 1817, the monastery school in Blaubeuren . He studied from 1820 to 1824 as a scholarship holder of the Protestant Abbey Tübingen at the University of Tübingen Theology and became Dr. med. phil. PhD. He was a member of the fraternity Germania Tübingen . [1] Some of the texts printed in the Kommersbuch date from this period of student songs . Hauff worked from 1824 to 1826 in Stuttgart under Ernst Eugen Freiherr von Hügel as a tutor and then traveled through France and northern Germany. In 1825 he appeared with the satire The Man in the Moon , in which he mimics the style and manner of the trivial author Heinrich Clauren and his narration Mimili and reveals the ridicule. Two years later he revealed the literary bluff with the controversial sermon on H. Clauren and the Man in the Moon . In January 1827 he became editor of the Cottaschen Morgenblattes for educated estates . In February he married his cousin Luise Hauff (born January 6, 1806, † July 30, 1867). In August he undertook a study tour through Tyrol , where he wanted to collect material for a planned work on Andreas Hofer . During the trip he became infected with typhus and returned ill. On November 10, 1827 [2] the daughter Wilhelmine († January 2, 1845) was born. Hauff died eight days later. The grave of the family is located on the Hoppenlaufriedhof in Stuttgart. Less