See also:

• OTTO

OTTO See also:

• LUDWIG, KARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1816—1895)
• OTTO LUDWIG (1813-1865)

LUDWIG (1813-1865)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German dramatist, novelist and critic, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Eisfeld in Thuringia, on the 11th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1813 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, who was See also:

• SYNDIC (Late Lat. syndicus, Gr. vivv&aos, one who helps in a court of justice, an advocate, representative, crap, with, and Sirc77, justice)

syndic of Eisfeld, died when the boy was twelve years old, and he was brought up amidst uncongenial conditions . He had devoted his leisure to See also:

• POETRY

poetry and See also:

• MUSIC

music, which unfitted him for the See also:

• MERCANTILE (or COMMERCIAL) AGENCIES

mercantile career planned for him . The See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention of the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• MEININGEN

Meiningen was directed to one of his musical compositions, an See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera, See also:

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

Die Kohlerin, and See also:

• LUDWIG, KARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1816—1895)
• LUDWIG, OTTO (1813-1865)

Ludwig was enabled in 1839 to continue his musical studies under Mendelssohn in See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig . But See also:

• ILL

ill-See also:

• HEALTH

health and constitutional shyness caused him to give up a musical career, and he turned exclusively to See also:

• LITERARY

literary studies, and wrote several stories and dramas . Of the latter, Der Erbforster (185o) attracted immediate attention as a masterly psychological study . It was followed by Die Makkabaer (1852), in which the realistic method of Der Erbforster was transferred to an See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical milieu, which allowed more brilliant colouring and a freer See also:

• PLAY

play of the See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination . With these tragedies, to which may be added Die Rechte See also:

• DES

des Herzens and DasFraulein von Scuderi, the See also:

• COMEDY

comedy Hans See also:

• FREY (Old Norse, Freyr)

Frey, and an unfinished tragedy on the subject of See also:

• AGNES, SAINT

Agnes See also:

• BERNAUER, AGNES (d. 1435)

Bernauer, Ludwig ranks immediately after See also:

• HEBBEL, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH (1813-1863)

Hebbel as See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany's most notable dramatic poet at the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 19th See also:

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

century . Meanwhile he had married and settled permanently in See also:

• DRESDEN

Dresden, where he turned his attention to fiction . He published a See also:

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

series of admirable stories of Thuringian See also:

• LIFE

life, characterized by the same attention to See also:

• MINUTE
• MINUTE (Lat. minutes, small; minuere, to make less)

minute detail and careful psychological See also:

• ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

analysis as his dramas . The best of these are Die Heiteretei and ihr Widerspiel (1851), and Ludwig's masterpiece, the powerful novel, Zwischen See also:

• HIMMEL, FREDERICK HENRY (1765-1814)

Himmel and Erde (1855) . In his See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare-Studien (not published until 1891) Ludwig showed himself a discriminating critic, with a See also:

• FINE

fine insight into the hidden springs of the creative imagination .

So See also:

• GREAT

great, however, was his See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm for Shakespeare, that he was led to depreciate See also:

• SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1759-18o5)

Schiller in a way which found little favour among his countrymen . He died at Dresden on the 25th of February 1865 . Ludwig's Gesammelte Schriften were published by A . Stern and E . See also:

• SCHMIDT, H
• SCHMIDT, HEINRICH JULIAN (1818-1886)
• SCHMIDT, KARL VON (1817-1875)
• SCHMIDT, WILHELM ADOLF (1812-1887)

Schmidt in 6 vols . (1891–1892) ; also by A . See also:

• BARTELS, HANS VON (1856– )

Bartels (6 vols., 1900) . See A . Stern, See also:

• OTTO

Otto Ludwig, ern Dicttterleben (1891; and ed., 1906), and A . Sauer, Otto Ludwig (1893) .