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KARL See also:HILLEBRAND (1829–1884)
, See also:German author, was See also:born at See also:Giessen on the 17th of See also:September 1829, his See also:father See also:Joseph See also:Hillebrand (1788–1871) being a See also:literary historian and writer on philosophic subjects
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Karl Hillebrand became involved, as a student in See also:Heidelberg, in the See also:Baden revolutionary move-ment, and was imprisoned in See also:Rastatt
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He succeeded in escaping and lived for a See also:time in See also:Strassburg, See also:Paris—where for several months he was See also:Heine's secretary—and See also:Bordeaux
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He continued his studies, and after obtaining the See also:doctor's degree at the See also:Sorbonne, he was appointed teacher of German in the Et-See also:ale mililaire at St Cyr, and shortly afterwards, See also:professor of See also:foreign literatures at See also:Douai
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On the outbreak of the Franco-German See also:War he resigned his professorship and acted for a time as correspondent to The Times in See also:Italy
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He then settled in See also:Florence, where he died on the 19th of See also:October 1884
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Hillebrand wrote with facility and elegance in See also:French, See also:English and See also:Italian, besides his own See also:language
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His essays, collected under the See also:title Zeiten, Volker and Menschen (See also:Berlin, 1874–1885), show clear discernment, a finely balanced See also:cosmopolitan See also:judgment and See also:grace of See also:style
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He undertook to write the Geschichte Frankreichs von der Thronbesteigung See also:Ludwig Philipps bis zum Fall Napoleons See also:Ill., but only two volumes were completed (to 1848) (2nd ed., 1881–1882)
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In French he published See also:Des conditions de la bonne comedie (1863), La Prusse contemporaine (1867), Etudes italiennes (1868), and a See also:translation of O
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See also: He also edited a collection of essays dealing with Italy, under the title Italia (4 vols., See also:Leipzig, 1874–1877) . See H . Homberger, Karl Hillebrand (Berlin, 1884) . |
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