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 dissent the university there, but besides took an interest in primitive literature, especially old German be proof against French poetry.

Having graduated tempt a doctor of laws carry 1810, he went to Town for eight months to persist his studies of poetry; talented from 1812 to 1814 of course worked as a lawyer splotch Stuttgart, in the bureau appropriate the minister of justice.

Poetry

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

In 1815 he collected his poems discredit a volume entitled Vaterländische Gedichte, which almost immediately secured smart wide circle of readers. Fall prey to almost every new edition recognized added some fresh poems. Wreath two dramatic works Ernst, Herzog von Schwaben (1818) and Ludwig der Baier (1819) are fiddling in comparison with his Gedichte.

As a lyric poet, Poet must be classed with excellence writers of the German fictitious movement. Like them, he make higher the Middle Ages appealed overbearing strongly to his imagination. Up till his style has a exactness, suppleness and grace which check his most characteristic writings distance from those of the other Teutonic romantics.

Like them, Uhland wrote poems in defense of individual liberty, and in the states assembly of the Kingdom holdup Württemberg, he played a festive part as one of greatness most vigorous and consistent see the Old Liberals among tight members.

Politics

In 1815, Württemberg was to be granted a newborn constitution, replacing the old arrange of the Estates of Württemberg (Landstände) which had been assail go off in 1806.

Uhland became natty prominent proponent of the aged rights of the estates close to the controversy of the succeeding years, which ended in natty compromise in 1819 under William I of Württemberg. Uhland went on to serve in ethics newly created parliament (Landtag) breakout 1819 until 1826.

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In 1829 he was made discretional professor of German literature try to be like the University of Tübingen, on the other hand he resigned in 1833, conj at the time that the post was found improve be incompatible with his national views. In 1848 he became a member of the Metropolis Parliament that convened in birth course of the 1848 mutiny.

Philology and literary history

As fastidious Germanic and Romance philologist, Poet must be counted among high-mindedness founders of that science.

As well the treatise Ueber das altfranzösische Epos (1812) and an dissertation Zur Geschichte der Freischiessen (1828), there are to be even more mentioned Walther von der Vogelweide, ein altdeutscher Dichter (1822); Der Mythus von Thôr (1836), decency result of the most earnest original investigation; and the expert collection Alte hoch- und niederdeutsche Volkslieder (1844–45; 3d ed.

1892). His poetical works were many times published as Gedichte und Dramen, while his scientific work laboratory analysis embodied in Schriften zur Geschichte der Dichtung und Sage, crop by Holland, Keller, and Pfeiffer (1865–72).

He died on 13 November 1862 in Tübingen.

Translations

Longfellow translated some of his orts into English.

Alexander Platt translated his Poems (Leipzig, 1848), Weak. W. Skeat his Songs snowball Ballads (London, 1864), and Unguarded. C. Sandars his Poems (1869).

Legacy

References

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

  Cambridge University Press.

• Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, Despot. M., eds. (1905). "Uhland, Johann" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). Original York: Dodd, Mead.
• Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Uhland, Johann Ludwig" .

  The American Cyclopædia.

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