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DETLEV VON LILIENCRON (1844-1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 685 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LILIENCRON (1844-1909)  , See also:German poet and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Kiel on the 3rd of See also:June 1844 . He entered the See also:army and took See also:part in the See also:campaigns of 1866 and 187o-71, in both of which he was wounded . He retired with the See also:rank of See also:captain and spent some See also:time in See also:America, afterwards settling at Kellinghusen in See also:Holstein, where he remained till 1887 . After some time at See also:Munich, he settled in See also:Altona and then at Altrahistedt, near See also:Hamburg . He died in See also:July 1909 . He first attracted See also:attention by the See also:volume of poems, Adjutantenrilte and anderc Gedichte (1883), which was followed by several unsuccessful dramas, a volume of See also:short stories, Eine Sommerschlacht (1886), and a novel Breide Hummelsbilttel (1887) . Other collections of short stories appeared under the titles Unter flatternden Fahnen (1888) . Der Maven (1889), Krieg and Frieden (1891); of lyric See also:poetry in 1889, 1890 (Der Heideglinger and andere Gedichte), 1893, and 1903 (Bunte Beute) . Interesting, too, is the humorous epic Poggfred (1896; 2nd ed . 1904) . See also:Liliencron is one of the most eminent of See also:recent German lyric poets; his Adjutantenritte, with its fresh See also:original See also:note, See also:broke with the well-worn See also:literary conventions which had been handed down from the See also:middle of the See also:century . Liliencron's See also:work is, however, somewhat unequal, and he lacks the sustained See also:power which makes the successful See also:prose writer .

Liliencron's Samtliche Werke have been published in 14 vols . (19o4—19o5); his Gedichte having been previously collected in four volumes under the titles Kampf and Spiele, Kampfe and Ziele, Nebel and Sonne and Bunte Beute (1897—1903) . See O . J . Bierbaum, D. von Liliencron (1892) ; H . Greinz, Liliencron, eine literarhistorische Wurdiigung (1896); F . Oppenheimer, D. von Liliencron (1898) .

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