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See also:AUGUST See also:POLLEN (or, as he afterwards called himself, ADOLF) See also:LUDWIG (1794-1855) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at See also:Giessen on the 21st of See also:January 1794, the son of a See also:district See also:judge . He studied See also:theology at Giessen and See also:law at See also:Heidelberg, and after leaving the university edited the See also:Elberfeld Allgemeine Zeitung . Suspected of being connected with some See also:radical plots, he was imprisoned for two years in See also:Berlin . When released in 1821 he went to See also:Switzerland, where he taught in the See also:canton school at Aarau, farmed from 1847-1854 the See also:estate of Liebenfels in See also:Thurgau, and then retired to See also:Bern, where he lived till his See also:death on the 26th of See also:December 1855 . Besides a number of See also:minor poems he wrote Harfengrusse aus Deutschland and der Schweiz (1823) and Malegys and See also:Vivian (1829), a knightly See also:romance after the See also:fashion of the romantic school . Of his many See also:translations, mention may be made of the Homeric See also:Hymns in collaboration with R . Schwenck (1814), See also:Tasso's See also:Jerusalem Delivered (1818) and Siegfrieds See also:Tod from the See also:Nibelungenlied (1842); he also collected and translated Latin hymns and sacred See also:poetry (1819) . In 1846 he published a brief collection of sonnets entitled An See also:die gottlosen Nichtswuteriche . This was aimed at the liberal philosopher See also:Arnold See also:Ruge, and was the occasion of a See also:literary See also:duel between the two authors . See also:Follen's See also:posthumous poem Tristans Eltern (1857) may also be mentioned, but his best-known See also:work is a collection of German poetry entitled Bildersaal deutscher Dichtung (1827) . |
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