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WOLFGANG MENZEL (1798-1873)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 147 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MENZEL (1798-1873)  , See also:German poet, critic and See also:literary historian, was See also:born on the 21St of See also:June 1798, at See also:Walden-See also:burg in See also:Silesia, studied at See also:Breslau, See also:Jena and See also:Bonn, and after living for some See also:time in Aarau and See also:Heidelberg finally settled in See also:Stuttgart, where, from 1830 to 1838, he had a seat in the See also:Wurttemberg See also:Diet . His first See also:work, a See also:clever and See also:original See also:volume of poems, entitled Streckverse (Heidelberg, 1823), was followed in 1824-1825 by a popular Geschichte der Deutschen in three volumes and in 1829 and 183o by Rubezahl and See also:Narcissus, the dramatized See also:fairy-stories upon which his reputation as a poet chiefly rests . In 1851 he published the See also:romance of Furore, a lively picture of the See also:period of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War; his other writings include Geschichle Europas, 1789-1815 (2 vols . Stuttgart, 1853), and histories of the German War of 1866 and of the Franco-German War of 1870-71 . From 1826 to 1848 See also:Menzel edited a " Literaturblatt " in connexion with the Morgenblatt; in the latter See also:year he transferred his See also:allegiance from the Liberal to the Conservative party, and in 1852 his " Literaturblatt " was revived in that See also:interest . In 1866 his See also:political sympathies again changed, and he opposed the " particularism " of the Prussian " junkers and the See also:anti-unionism of See also:south See also:Germany . He died on the 23rd of See also:April 1873 at Stuttgart . His library of 18,000 volumes was afterwards acquired for the university of See also:Strassburg .

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