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GEORG HERWEGH (1817-'875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 405 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERWEGH (1817-'875)  , See also:German See also:political poet, was See also:born at See also:Stuttgart on the 31st of May '817, the son of a restaurant keeper . He was educated at the gymnasium of his native See also:city, and in 1835 proceeded to the university of See also:Tubingen as a theological student, where, with a view to entering the See also:ministry, he entered the See also:protestant theological See also:seminary . But the strict discipline was distasteful; he See also:broke the rules and was expelled in '836 . He next studied See also:law, but having gained the See also:interest of See also:August See also:Lewald (1793–1871) by his See also:literary ability, he returned to Stuttgart, where Lewald obtained for him a journalisitic See also:post . Called out for military service, he had hardly joined his See also:regiment when he committed an See also:act of flagrant insubordination, and fled to See also:Switzerland to avoid See also:punishment . Here he published his Gedichte eines Lebendigen (1841), a See also:volume of political poems, which gave expression to the fervent aspirations of the German youth of the See also:day . The See also:work immediately rendered him famous, and although confiscated, it soon ran through several See also:editions . The See also:idea of the See also:book was a refutation of the opinions of See also:Prince Ptickler-Muskau (q.v.) in his Briefe eines Verstorbenen . He next proceeded to See also:Paris and in 1842 returned to See also:Germany, visiting See also:Jena, See also:Leipzig, See also:Dresden and See also:Berlin—a See also:journey which was described as being a " veritable triumphal progress." His military insubordination appears to have been forgiven and forgotten, for in Berlin See also:King See also:Frederick See also:William IV. had him introduced to him and used the memorable words: " ich liebe eine gesinnungsvolle Opposition" ("I admire an opposition, when dictated by principle.") See also:Herwegh next returned tc Paris, where he published in 1844 the second volume of his Gedichte eines Lebendigen, which, like the first volume, was confiscated by the German See also:police . At the See also:head of a revolutionary See also:column of German working men, recruited in Paris, Herwegh took an active See also:part in the See also:South German rising in 1848; but his raw troops were defeated on the 27th of See also:April at Schopfheim in See also:Baden and, after a very feeble display of heroism, he just managed to See also:escape to Switzerland, where he lived for many years on the proceeds of his literary productions . He was later (1866) permitted to return to Germany, and died at Lichtenthal near Baden-Baden on the 7th of April 1875 . A See also:monument was erected to his memory there in 1904 .

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works, Herwegh published Einundzwanzig Bogen aus der Schweiz (1843), and See also:translations into German of A. de Lamartine's works and of seven of See also:Shakespeare's plays . Posthumously appeared New Gedichte (1877) . Herwegh's See also:correspondence was published by his son See also:Marcel in '898 . See also Johannes See also:Scherr, Georg Herwegh; literarische and politische Bldtter (1843) ; and the See also:article by See also:Franz Muncker in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie .

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