BOGUMIL

GOLTZ (18o1-1870)  , German humorist and satirist, was born at Warsaw on the loth of March 18or . After attending the classical schools of Marienwerder and Konigsberg, he learnt farming on an estate near Thorn, and in 1821 entered the university of Breslau as a student of philosophy . But he soon abandoned an academical career, and, after returning for a while to country life, retired to the small town of Gollub, where he devoted himself to literary studies . In 1847 he settled at Thorn, " the home of Copernicus," where he died on the 12th of November 1870 . Goltz is best known to literary fame by his Buck der Kindheit (Frankfort, 1847; 4th ed., Berlin, 1877), in which, after the style of Jean Paul, and Adalbert Stifter, but with a more modern realism, he gives a charming and idyllic description of the impressions of his own childhood . Among his other works must be noted Ein Jugendleben (1852) ; Der Mensch and die Leute (1858); Zur Charakteristik and Naturgeschichte der Frauen (1859); Zur Geschichte and Charakteristik des deutschen Genius (1864), and Die Weltklugheit and die Lebensweisheit (1869) . Goltz's works have not been collected, but a selection will be found in Reclam's Universalbibliothek (ed. by P . Stein, 1901 and 1906) . See O . Roquette, Siebzig Jahre, i . (1894) .