WILHELM See also:

• RAABE, HEDWIG (1844-1905)
• WILHELM RAABE (1831-1910)

RAABE (1831-1910)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German novelist, whose See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• WORKS

works were published under the See also:

• PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym of See also:

• JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

Jakob See also:

• CORVINUS, JANOS [JOHN] (1473–1504)

Corvinus, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Eschershausen in the duchy of See also:

• BRUNSWICK
• BRUNSWICK (Ger. Braunschweig)
• BRUNSWICK, KARL WILHELM FERDINAND, DUKE OF (1735-18o6)

Brunswick on the 8th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1831 . He served See also:

• APPRENTICESHIP (from Fr. apprendre, to learn)

apprenticeship at a bookseller's in See also:

• MAGDEBURG

Magdeburg for four years (1849-1854); but tiring of the routine of business, studied See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy at See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin(1855-1857) . While a student at that university he published his first See also:

• WORK

work, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse (1857), which at once attained to See also:

• GREAT

great popularity . See also:

• RAABE, HEDWIG (1844-1905)
• RAABE, WILHELM (1831-1910)

Raabe next returned to See also:

• WOLFENBUTTEL

Wolfenbuttel, and then lived (1862-187o) at See also:

• STUTTGART

Stuttgart, where he devoted himself entirely to authorship and wrote a number of novels and See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short stories; notably Unseres Herrgotts Kanzlei (1862); Der Hungerpastor (1864); See also:

• ABU

Abu Telfan (1867) and Der Schildderump (1870) . In 1870 Raabe removed to Brunswick and published the narratives Horacker (1876)—perhaps his masterpiece; Das Odfeld (1889); Kloster Lugau (1894) and Hastenbeck (1899), and numerous other stories . The distinguishing characteristic of Raabe's work is a genial See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour which reminds us occasionally of See also:

• DICKENS, CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM (1812-187o)

Dickens; but this humour is often combined with a See also:

• PESSIMISM (from Lat. pessimus, worst)

pessimism that is See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign to the See also:

• ENGLISH

English novelist . Raabe's Gesammelte Erzahlungen appeared in 4 vols . (1896-1900) ; there is no See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform edition of his larger novels . See P . See also:

• GERBER, ERNST LUDWIG (1746-1819)

Gerber, Wilhelm Raabe (1897); A . See also:

• OTTO

Otto, Wilhelm Raabe (1899); A . See also:

• BARTELS, HANS VON (1856– )

Bartels, Wilhelm Raabe: Vortrag (1901) .