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See also:RUDOLF See also:BAUMBACH (1840-1905) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at Kranich'feld on the Ilm in Thuringia, on the 28th of See also:September 1840, the son of a See also:local medical practitioner, and received his See also:early schooling at the gymnasium of See also:Meiningen, to which See also:place his See also:father had removed . After studying natural See also:science in various See also:universities, he engaged in private tuition, both independently and in families, in the See also:Austrian towns of See also:Graz, See also:Brunn, See also:Gorz and Triest respectively . In Triest he caught the popular See also:taste with an Alpine See also:legend, Zlatorog (1877), and songs of a journeyman apprentice, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (1878), both of which have run into many See also:editions . Their success decided him to embark upon a See also:literary career . In 1885 he returned to Meiningen, where he received the See also:title of Hofr¢l, and was appointed ducal librarian . His See also:death occurred on the 14th of September 1905 . See also:Baumbach was a poet of the breezy, vagabond school, and wrote, in See also:imitation of his greater compatriot, See also:Victor See also:Scheffel, many excellent drinking songs, among which See also:Die Lindenwirtin has endeared him to the German student See also:world . But his real strength See also:lay in narrative See also:verse, especially when he had the opportunity of describing the scenery and See also:life of his native Thuringia . See also:Special mention may be made of Frau Holde (1881), Spielmannslieder (1882), Von der Landstrasse (1882), Thiiringer Lieder (1891), and his See also:prose, Sommermarchen (1881) . |
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