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WILHELM See also:JENSEN (1837- )
, See also:German author, was See also:born at Heiligenhafen in See also:Holstein on the 15th of See also:February 1837, the son of a See also:local Danish See also:magistrate, who came of old patrician Frisian stock
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After attending the classical See also:schools at See also:Kiel and
xv. r rLubeck, See also:Jensen studied See also:medicine at the See also:universities of Kiel, See also:Wurzburg and See also:Breslau
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He, however, abandoned the medical profession for that of letters, and after engaging for some years in individual private study proceeded to See also:Munich, where he associated with men of letters
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After a See also:residence in See also:Stuttgart (1865-1869), where for a See also:short See also:time he conducted the Schwabische Volks-Zeitung, he became editor in Flensburg of the Norddeutsche Zeitung
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In 1872 he again returned to Kiel, lived from 1876 to 1888 in See also:Freiburg See also:im See also:Breisgau, and since 1888 has been See also:resident in Munich
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Jensen is perhaps the most fertile of See also:modern German writers of fiction, more than one See also:hundred See also:works having proceeded from his See also:pen; but only comparatively few of them have caught the public See also:taste; such are the novels, Karin von Schweden (See also:Berlin, 1878); See also:Die braune Erica (Berlin, 1868) ; and the See also:tale, Die Pfeifer von Dusenbach, Eine Geschichte aus dem Elsass (1884)
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Among others may be mentioned : Barthenia (Berlin, 1877) ; Gotz and Gisela (Berlin, 1886) ; Heimkunft (See also:Dresden, 1894) ; Aus See and See also:Sand (Dresden, 1897) ; Luv and See also: |
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