WILHELM

JENSEN (1837- )  , German author, was born at Heiligenhafen in Holstein on the 15th of February 1837, the son of a local Danish magistrate, who came of old patrician Frisian stock . After attending the classical schools at Kiel and xv. r rLubeck, Jensen studied medicine at the universities of Kiel, Wurzburg and Breslau . He, however, abandoned the medical profession for that of letters, and after engaging for some years in individual private study proceeded to Munich, where he associated with men of letters . After a residence in Stuttgart (1865-1869), where for a short time he conducted the Schwabische Volks-Zeitung, he became editor in Flensburg of the Norddeutsche Zeitung . In 1872 he again returned to Kiel, lived from 1876 to 1888 in Freiburg im Breisgau, and since 1888 has been resident in Munich . Jensen is perhaps the most fertile of modern German writers of fiction, more than one hundred works having proceeded from his pen; but only comparatively few of them have caught the public taste; such are the novels, Karin von Schweden (Berlin, 1878); Die braune Erica (Berlin, 1868) ; and the tale, Die Pfeifer von Dusenbach, Eine Geschichte aus dem Elsass (1884) . Among others may be mentioned : Barthenia (Berlin, 1877) ; Gotz and Gisela (Berlin, 1886) ; Heimkunft (Dresden, 1894) ; Aus See and Sand (Dresden, 1897) ; Luv and Lee (Berlin, 1897) ; and the narratives, Aus den Tagen der Hansa (Leipzig, 1885) ; Aus stiller Zeit (Berlin, 1881-1885) ; and Heimath (1901) . Jensen also published some tragedies, among which Dido (Berlin, 187o) and Der Kampf fur's Reick (Freiburg im Br., 1884) may be mentioned .