GOTTFRIED See also:

• KELLER, ALBERT (1845- )
• GOTTFRIED KELLER (1819-1890)
• KELLER, HELEN ADAMS (188o- )

KELLER (1819-1890)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German poet and novelist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ZURICH
• ZURICH (Fr. Zurich; Ital. Zurigo)

Zurich on the 19th of See also:

• JULY

July 1819 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, a See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master joiner, dying while Gottfried was See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young, his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• EDUCATION

education was neglected; he, however, was in 1835 apprenticed to a landscape painter, and subsequently spent two years (1840-1842) in See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich learning to paint . See also:

• INTEREST

Interest in poiitics See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew him into literature, and his talents were first disclosed in a See also:

• VOLUME

volume of See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short poems, Gedichte (1846) . This obtained him recognition from the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government of his native See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

canton, and he was in 1848 enabled to take a short course of philosophical study at the university of See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg . From 185o to 1855 he lived in See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, where he wrote his most important novel, Der grune Heinrich (1851-1853; revised edition 1879-188o), remarkable for its delicate autographic See also:

• PORTRAITURE

portraiture and the beautiful episodes interwoven with the See also:

• ACTION

action . This was followed by See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Leute von Seldwyla (1856), studies of Swiss provincial See also:

• LIFE

life, including in Romeo and Julia auf dem Dorfe one of the most powerful short stories in the German See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, and in Die drei gerechten Kammmacher, almost as See also:

• GREAT

great a master-piece of humorous See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing . Returning to his native See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city with a considerable reputation, he received in 1861 the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of secretary to the canton . For a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time his creative See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty seemed paralysed by his public duties, but in 1872 appeared Sieben Legenden, and in 1874 a second See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of Die Leute von Seldwyla, in both of which books he displayed no See also:

• ABATEMENT (derived through the French abattre, from the Late Latin battere, to beat)

abatement of See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power and originality . He retired from the public service in 1876 and employed his leisure in the See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of Z% richer Novellen (1878), Das Sinngedicht, a collection of short stories (1881), and a novel, Marlin Salander (Berlin, 1886) . He died on the 15th of July 1890 at Hottingen . See also:

• KELLER, ALBERT (1845- )
• KELLER, GOTTFRIED (1819-1890)
• KELLER, HELEN ADAMS (188o- )

Keller's See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place among German novelists is very high . Few have See also:

• UNITED

united such See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy and See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination to such uncompromising See also:

• REALISM (from Low Lat. realis, appertaining to res, things, as opposed to ideas and imaginations)

realism, or such tragic earnestness to such abounding See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour .

As a lyric poet, his See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius is no less See also:

• ORIGINAL

original;he takes See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank with the best German poets of this class in the second See also:

• HALF

half of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . Keller's Gesammelte Werke were published in to vols . (1889-189o), to which was added another volume, Nachgelassene Schriften and Dichtungen, containing the fragment of a tragedy (1893) . In See also:

• ENGLISH

English appeared, G . Keller: A Selection of his Tales translated with a Memoir by Kate See also:

• FREILIGRATH

Freiligrath-Kroeker (1891) . For a further estimate of Keller's life and See also:

• WORKS

works cf . O . Brahm (1883) ; E . Brenning, G . Keller nach seinem Leben and Dichten (1892) ; F . Baldensperger, G . Keller; sa See also:

• VIE

vie et ses oeuvres (1893) ; A .

See also:

• FREY (Old Norse, Freyr)

Frey, Erinnerungen an Gottfried Keller (1893); J . Baechtold, Kellers Leben . See also:

• SEINE
• SEINE (Lat. Sequana)
• SEINE, or SEAN (O. Fr. seigne, mod. seine, Lat. sagena, Gr. vaytivrl, a draw-net)

Seine Briefe and Tagebiicher (Berlin, 1894–1897); A . See also:

• KOSTER (or COSTER), LAURENS (c. 1370–1440)

Koster, G . Keller (1900; 2nd ed., 1907); and for his See also:

• WORK

work as a painter, H . E. von Berlepsch, Gottfried Keller als Male ?. (1895) .