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EMANUEL See also:GEIBEL (1815–1884)
, See also:German poet, was See also:born at See also:Lubeck on the 17th of See also:October 1815, the son of a pastor in the See also:city
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He was originally intended for his See also:father's profession. and studied at See also:Bonn and See also:Berlin, but his real interests See also:lay not in See also:theology but in classical and See also:romance See also:philology
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In 1838 he accepted a tutorship at 'See also:Athens, where he remained until 1840
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In the same See also:year he brought out, in See also:conjunction with his friend See also:Ernst See also:Curtius, a See also:volume of See also:translations from the See also:Greek
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His first poems, Zeitstimmen, appeared in 1841; a tragedy, See also:Konig See also:Roderick, followed in 1843
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In the same year he received. a See also:pension from the See also: Beginning as a member of the See also:group of See also:political poets who heralded the revolution of 1848, See also:Geibel was also the See also:chief poet to welcome the See also:establishment of the See also:Empire in 1871 . His strength lay not, however, in his political songs but in his purely lyric poetry, such as the See also:fine See also:cycle Ada and his still popular love-songs . He may be regarded as the leading representative of German lyric poetry between 1848 and 1870 . Geibel's Gesammelte Werke were published in 8 vols . (1883, 4th ed . 1906) ; his Gedichte have gone through about 13o See also:editions . An excel-See also:lent selection in one volume appeared in 1904 . For See also:biography and See also:criticism, see K . Goedeke, E . Geibel (1869) ; W . See also:Scherer's address on Geibel (1884) ; K . T . Gaedertz, Geibel-Denkwzirdigkeiten (1886) ; C . C . T . Litzmann, E . Geibel, aus Erinnerungen, Briefen and Tagebiichern (1887), and See also:biographies by C . Leimbach (2nd ed., 1894), and K, T . Gaedertz (1897) . |
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