ERNST PHILIPP KARL

See also:

• LANGE, ANNE FRANCOISE ELIZABETH (1772—1816)
• ERNST PHILIPP KARL LANGE (1813—1899)
• LANGE, FRIEDRICH ALBERT (1828—1875)
• LANGE, JOHANN PETER (1802-1884)

LANGE (1813—1899)  , German novelist, who wrote under the pseudonym Philipp Galen, was born at Potsdam on the 21st of December 1813 . He studied medicine at Berlin (1835—1840), and on taking his degree, in 184o, entered the Prussian army as surgeon . In this capacity he saw service in the Schleswig-Holstein campaign of 1849, He settled at Bielefeld as medical practitioner and here issued his first novel, Der Inselkonig (1852 . 3rd ed., 1858), which enjoyed considerable popularity . In Bielefeld he continued to work at his profession and to write, until his retirement, with the rank of Oberstabsarzt (surgeon-general) to Potsdam in 1878; there he died on the loth of February 1899 . Lange's novels are distinguished by local colouring and pretty, though not powerful, descriptions of manners and customs . He particularly favoured scenes of English life, though he had never been in that country, and on the whole he succeeded well in his descriptions . Chief among his novels are, Der Irre von St James (1853, 5th ed., 1871), and Emery Glandon (3rd ed., Leip., 1865), while of those dealing with the Schleswig-Holstein campaign Andreas Burns (1856) and Die Tochter des Diplomaten (1865) commanded considerable attention . His Gesammelte Schriften appeared in 36 vols . (1857–1866) .