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WOLFGANG 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
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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 fairy-stories upon which his reputation as a poet chiefly rests
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In 1851 he published the See also: romance of Furore, a lively picture of the See also: period of the See also: Thirty Years' War; his other writings include Geschichle Europas, 1789-1815 (2 vols
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Stuttgart, 1853), and histories of the German War of 1866 and of the Franco-German War of 1870-71
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From 1826 to 1848 Menzel edited a " Literaturblatt " in connexion with the Morgenblatt; in the latter See also: year he transferred his allegiance from the Liberal to the Conservative party, and in 1852 his " Literaturblatt " was revived in that See also: interest
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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
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He died on the 23rd of See also: April 1873 at Stuttgart
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His library of 18,000 volumes was afterwards acquired for the university of Strassburg
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