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EDUARD See also:FRIEDRICH See also:MORIKE (1804-1875)
, See also:German poet, was See also:born at See also:Ludwigsburg on the 8th of See also:September 1804
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In 1834 he was appointed pastor of Kleversulzbach near See also:Weinsberg, and in 1851 became See also:professor of literature at the Katharinenstift in See also:Stuttgart
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This See also:office he held until his retirement in 1866; but he continued to live at Stuttgart until his See also:death on the 4th of See also:June 1875
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See also:Morike is the most lyrically gifted of all the poets belonging to the so-called Swabian school which gathered See also:round See also:Uhland
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His poems, Gedichte (1838; 22nd ed., 1905), are mostly lyrics, graceful in See also:style, See also:original in conception, often humorous, but expressed in See also:simple and natural See also:language
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He also wrote a somewhat fantastic Idylle vom Bodensee, See also:oder See also:Fischer See also: 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) . |
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