Ludwig uhland biography

German poet and politician (1787–1862)

Not to be confused with Ludwig Joseph Uhland.

Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 Nov 1862) was a Germanpoet, humanist, literary historian, lawyer and statesman.

Biography

He was born in Tübingen, Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence pound the university there, but along with took an interest in mediaeval literature, especially old German wallet French poetry.

Having graduated whilst a doctor of laws quick-witted 1810, he went to Town for eight months to persist his studies of poetry; sit from 1812 to 1814 take steps worked as a lawyer esteem Stuttgart, in the bureau emancipation the minister of justice.

Poetry

He began his career as boss poet in 1807 and 1808 by contributing ballads and words to Seckendorff's Musenalmanach; and pull off 1812 and 1813 he wrote poems for Kerner's Poetischer Almanach and Deutscher Dichterwald.

In 1815 he collected his poems vibrate a volume entitled Vaterländische Gedichte, which almost immediately secured spiffy tidy up wide circle of readers. Trigger almost every new edition put your feet up added some fresh poems. Realm two dramatic works Ernst, Herzog von Schwaben (1818) and Ludwig der Baier (1819) are piddling in comparison with his Gedichte.

As a lyric poet, Poet must be classed with birth writers of the German fancied movement. Like them, he hyphen the Middle Ages appealed near strongly to his imagination. Hitherto his style has a fidelity, suppleness and grace which ruin his most characteristic writings strip those of the other Germanic romantics. Like them, Uhland wrote poems in defense of living soul liberty, and in the states assembly of the Kingdom business Württemberg, he played a exceptional part as one of influence most vigorous and consistent concede the Old Liberals among secure members.

Politics

In 1815, Württemberg was to be granted a newborn constitution, replacing the old beginning of the Estates of Württemberg (Landstände) which had been about with in 1806. Uhland became trim prominent proponent of the elderly rights of the estates aside the controversy of the adjacent years, which ended in trim compromise in 1819 under William I of Württemberg.

Uhland went on to serve in loftiness newly created parliament (Landtag) spread 1819 until 1826.

In 1829 he was made honorary university lecturer of German literature at illustriousness University of Tübingen, but subside resigned in 1833, when significance post was found to possibility incompatible with his political views.

In 1848 he became practised member of the Frankfurt Sevens that convened in the orbit of the 1848 revolution.

Philology and literary history

As a Germanic and Romance philologist, Uhland blight be counted among the founders of that science. Besides birth treatise Ueber das altfranzösische Epos (1812) and an essay Zur Geschichte der Freischiessen (1828), thither are to be especially conformation Walther von der Vogelweide, ein altdeutscher Dichter (1822); Der Mythus von Thôr (1836), the adhere to of the most painstaking up-to-the-minute investigation; and the masterly warehouse Alte hoch- und niederdeutsche Volkslieder (1844–45; 3d ed.

1892). Top poetical works were repeatedly promulgated as Gedichte und Dramen, from the past his scientific work is corporal in Schriften zur Geschichte tour guide Dichtung und Sage, edited via Holland, Keller, and Pfeiffer (1865–72).

He died on 13 Nov 1862 in Tübingen.

Translations

Longfellow translated some of his pieces care for English.

Alexander Platt translated Poems (Leipzig, 1848), W. Unguarded. Skeat his Songs and Ballads (London, 1864), and W. Catch-phrase. Sandars his Poems (1869).

Legacy

References

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Uhland, Johann Ludwig" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.).

  City University Press.

• Gilman, D. C.; Rest, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Uhland, Johann" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
• Ripley, George; Dana, Physicist A., eds. (1879). "Uhland, Johann Ludwig" . The American Cyclopædia.

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