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JOHANN See also:PETER See also:REBEL (176o-1826) , See also:German poet and popular writer, was See also:born at See also:Basel on the loth of May 1760 . The See also:father dying when the See also:child was little over a See also:year old, he was brought up amidst poverty-stricken conditions in the See also:village of Hausen in the Wiesental, where he received his earliest See also:education . Being of brilliant promise, he found See also:friends who enabled him to See also:complete his school education and to study See also:theology (1778-1780) at See also:Erlangen . At the end of his university course he was for a See also:time a private See also:tutor, then became teacher at the Gymnasium in See also:Karlsruhe, and in 18o8 was appointed director of the school . He was subsequently appointed member of the See also:Consistory and " evangelical See also:prelate." He died at See also:Schwetzingen, near See also:Heidelberg, on the 22nd of See also:September 1826 . Hebel is one of the most widely read of all German popular poets and writers . His poetical narratives and lyric poems, written in the "Alemanic" See also:dialect, are " popular " in the best sense . His Allemannische Gedichte (1803) " bucolicize," in the words of See also:Goethe, " the whole See also:world in the most attractive manner " (verbauert das See also:game Universum auf See also:die anmutigste Weise) . Indeed, few See also:modern German poets surpass him in fidelity, naivete, See also:humour, and in the freshness and vigour of his descriptions . His poem, Die Wiese, has been described by Johannes See also:Scherr as the " See also:pearl of German idyllic See also:poetry "; while his See also:prose writings, especially the narratives and essays contained in the Schatzkastlein See also:des rheinischen Hausfreundes (See also:Tubingen, 1811; new edition, Stuttg . 1869, 1888), belong to the best class of German stories, and according , to See also:August See also:Friedrich See also:Christian Vilmar (1800-1868) in his Geschichte der deutschen Literatur are " See also:worth more than a cartload of novels " (wiegen ein gauzes Fuder Romane auf) . Memorials have been erected to him at Karlsruhe, Basel and Schwetzingen . A complete edition of Hebel's See also:works—Sdmtliche Werke—was first published at See also:Stuttgart in 8 vols . (1832—1834); subsequent See also:editions appeared in 1847 (3 vols.), 1868 (2 vols.), 1873 (edited by G . See also:Wendt, 2 vols.), 1883-1885 (edited by O . Behaghel, 2 vols.) and 1905 (edited by E . See also:Keller, 5 vols.), as well as innumerable reprints . Hebel's See also:correspondence has been edited by 0 . Behaghel (1883) . See G . Langin, J . P . Hebel, ein Lebensbild (1894), and the introduction to Behaghel's edition . |
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