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See also:ROBERT EDUARD See also:PRUTZ (1816-1872) , See also:German poet and See also:prose writer, was See also:born at See also:Stettin on the 3oth of May 1816 . He studied See also:philology, See also:philosophy and See also:history at See also:Berlin, See also:Breslau and See also:Halle, and in the last-named became associated, after taking his degree, with See also:Arnold See also:Ruge in the publication of the Hallesche Jahrbucher . Subjected on See also:account of his advanced See also:political views to See also:police surveillance, he removed to See also:Jena, where, on the strength of an excellent monograph, Der Gottinger Dichterbund (1841), he hoped to obtain an See also:academic See also:appointment . He was, however, expelled from the See also:town for offending against the See also:press See also:laws, and it was not until 1846 that he received per-See also:mission to lecture in Berlin . From 1849 to 1859 he was extra-See also:ordinary See also:professor of literature at Halle, but retired in 1859 to Stettin, where he died on the 21st of See also:June 1872 . See also:Prutz. belonged to the See also:group of political poets who dominated German literature between 1841 and 1848; his poems are more conspicuous for their liberal tendency than their See also:poetry . Among them may be mentioned Ein Mdrehen (1841); Gedichte (1841); Aus der See also:Helmet (1858) ; Neue Gedichte (186o) ; Herbstrosen (1865) ; See also:Buck der Liebe (1869) . Among his novels are noteworthy, Das Enge4chen (1851) and Der Musikantenturm (1855) . Much more important are his contributions to See also:literary history and See also:criticism: Vorlesungen caber See also:die Geschichte See also:des deutschen Theaters (1847); See also:Ludwig See also:Holberg (1857); Die deutsche Literalist- der Gegenwart (1859), and Menschen and Bucker (1862) . Prutz also wrote some dramas of little merit . See R. von See also:Gottschall, in Unsere Zeit (1872) . |
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