BERTHOLD See also:

• BERTHOLD AUERBACH (1812-1882)

AUERBACH (1812-1882)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German novelist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 28th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1812 at Nordstetten in the Wiirttemberg See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

Black See also:

• FOREST

Forest . His parents were See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews, and he was intended for the See also:

• MINISTRY

ministry; but after studying See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy at See also:

• TUBINGEN

Tubingen, See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich and See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg, and becoming estranged from Jewish orthodoxy by the study of See also:

• SPINOZA, BARUCH (1632-1677)

Spinoza, he devoted himself to literature . He made a fortunate beginning in a See also:

• ROMANCE

romance on the See also:

• LIFE

life of Spinoza (1837), so interesting in itself, and so See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close in its adherence to fact, that it may be read with equal See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage as a novel or as a See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography . Dichter and See also:

• KAUFMANN, CONSTANTINE PETROVICH (1818-1882)

Kaufmann followed in 1839, and a See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of Spinoza's See also:

• WORKS

works in 1841, when See also:

• AUERBACH, BERTHOLD (1812-1882)

Auerbach turned to the class of fiction which has made him famous, the Schwarzwitlder Dorfgeschichten (1843), stories of See also:

• PEASANT (O. Fr. paysant, Mod. paysan; Lat. pagensis, belonging to the pagus or country; cf. " pagan ")

peasant life in the Black Forest . In these, as well as in Barfussele (1856), See also:

• EDELWEISS

Edelweiss (1861), and other novels of greater See also:

• COMPASS (Fr. corn pas, ultimately from Lat. cum, with, and passus, step)

compass, he depicts the life of the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south German peasant as " Jeremias Gotthelf " (Albrecht See also:

• BITZIUS, ALBRECHT (1797-1854)

Bitzius) had painted the peasantry of See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland, but in a less realistic spirit . When this vein was exhausted Auerbach returned to his first phase as a philosophical novelist, producing Auf der Hohe (1865), Das Landhaus am Rhein (1869), and other romances of profound speculative tendencies, turning on plots invented by himself . With the exception of Auf der Hohe, these works did not enjoy much popularity, and suffer from lack of See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form and concentration . Auerbach's fame continues to See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest upon his Dorfgeschichten, although the celebrity of even these has been impaired by the growing demand for a more uncompromising See also:

• REALISM (from Low Lat. realis, appertaining to res, things, as opposed to ideas and imaginations)

realism . Auerbach died at See also:

• CANNES

Cannes on the 8th of February 1882 . The first collected edition of Auerbach's Schriften appeared in 22 vols. in 1863–1864; the best edition is in 18 vols . (1892–1895) . Auerbach's Briefe an seinen See also:

• FREUND, WILHELM (1806—1894)

Freund J .

Auerbach (with a See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface by F . See also:

• SPIELHAGEN, FRIEDRICH VON (1829- )

Spielhagen) were published in 2 vols . (1884) . See E . Zabel, B . Auerbach (1882); and E . See also:

• LASKER, EDUARD (1829-1884)

Lasker, B . Auerbach, ein Gedenkblatt (1882) .