EDUARD

FRIEDRICH

See also:

• EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE (1804-1875)

MORIKE (1804-1875)  , German poet, was born at Ludwigsburg on the 8th of September 1804 . In 1834 he was appointed pastor of Kleversulzbach near Weinsberg, and in 1851 became professor of literature at the Katharinenstift in Stuttgart . This office he held until his retirement in 1866; but he continued to live at Stuttgart until his death on the 4th of June 1875 . Morike is the most lyrically gifted of all the poets belonging to the so-called Swabian school which gathered round Uhland . His poems, Gedichte (1838; 22nd ed., 1905), are mostly lyrics, graceful in style, original in conception, often humorous, but expressed in simple and natural language . He also wrote a somewhat fantastic Idylle vom Bodensee, oder Fischer Martin and die Glockendiebe (1846; and ed., 1856), and published a collection of hymns, odes, elegies and idylls of the Greeks and Romans, entitled Klassische Blumenlese (184o), and several novels and narratives, among the former Maler Nolten (1832; 6th ed., 1901), which enjoyed great popularity . Morike's Gesammelte Schriften were first published in 4 vols . (in 1878) ; the most recent editions are those edited by R . Krauss (6 vols., 1905), and the Volksausgabe, published by Goschen (4 vols., 1905) . Selections from his literary remains were published by R . Krauss in Eduard Morike als Gelegenheitsdichter (1895), and his correspondence with Hermann Kurz, Moritz von Schwind, and Theodor Storm, by J . Bachtold (1885–1891); an edition of Morike's Ausgewahlte Briefe, in 2 vols., appeared 1903–1904 .

See F . Notter, Eduard Morike (1875) ; and H . Fischer, Eduard Morike (1881); K . Fischer, E . Morike (19o1); H . Maync, E . Morike (1902) ; K . Fischer, Morikes kiinstlerisches Schaffen and dichterische Schopfungen (1903) .