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KARL See also:FOLLEN (1795-1840) , See also:German poet and patriot, See also:brother of A . L . See also:Follen, was See also:born at Romrod in See also:Hesse-See also:Darmstadt, on the 5th of See also:September 1795 . He first studied See also:theology at See also:Giessen, but after the See also:campaign of 1814, in which, like his brother See also:August, he took See also:part as a See also:Hessian volunteer, began the study of See also:jurisprudence, and in 1818 established himself as Privatdocent See also:FONBLANQUE of See also:civil See also:law at Giessen . Owing to being suspected of See also:political intrigues, he removed to See also:Jena, and thence, after the assassination of See also:Kotzebue, fled to See also:France . Here again the political See also:murder of the duc de See also:Berry, on the 14th of See also:January 182o, led to Follen being regarded as a suspect, and he accordingly took See also:refuge in See also:Switzerland, where he taught for a while at the cantonal school at See also:Coire and at the university of See also:Basel; but the Prussian authorities imperatively demanding his surrender, he sought in 1824 the hospitality of the See also:United States of See also:America . Here he became an instructor in German at Harvard in 1825, and in 183o obtained an See also:appointment as See also:professor of German See also:language and literature there; but his See also:anti-See also:slavery agitation having given umbrage to the authorities, he forfeited his See also:post in 1835, and was ordained Unitarian See also:minister of a See also:chapel at See also:Lexington in See also:Massachusetts in 1836 . He perished at See also:sea on See also:board a steamboat which was totally consumed by See also:fire while on a voyage from New See also:York to See also:Boston, on the See also:night of the 13th-14th of January 184o . Follen was the author of several celebrated patriotic songs written in the interests of See also:liberty . The best is perhaps Horch (Jul, ihr Fiirsten I Du See also:Volk, horch auf I of which Johannes Wit, called von Dorring (1800-1863), was See also:long, though erroneously, considered the author . It was published in A . L .
Follen's collection of patriotic songs, Freie Stimmen f rischer Jugend
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