AUGUST

See also:

• AUGUST POLLEN (or, as he afterwards called himself, ADOLF) LUDWIG (1794-1855)

POLLEN (or, as he afterwards called himself, ADOLF)

See also:

• LUDWIG, KARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1816—1895)
• LUDWIG, OTTO (1813-1865)

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