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LEVIN SCHUCKING (1814-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 382 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHUCKING (1814-1883)  , See also:German novelist, was See also:born on the See also:estate of Klemenswerth, near Meppen, in See also:Westphalia, on the 6th of See also:September 1814 . After studying See also:law at See also:Munich, See also:Heidelberg and See also:Gottingen, he wished to enter the See also:government judicial service, but, confronted by serious difficulties, abandoned the legal career, and settling at See also:Munster in 1837, devoted himselfto See also:literary See also:work . In 1841 he removed to Schloss Meersburg on the See also:Lake of See also:Constance, joined in 1843 the editorial See also:staff of the Allgemeine Zeitung in See also:Augsburg, and in 1845 that of the Kolnische Zeitung in See also:Cologne . In 1852 he retired to his estate, Sassenberg near Munster, and died at Pyrmont on the 31st of See also:August 1883 . Among his numerous romances, which are distinguished by See also:good See also:taste and patriotic feeling, largely reflecting the See also:sound, sturdy See also:character of the Westphalians, must be especially mentioned: Ein Schloss am See also:Meer (1843); Ein Sohn See also:des Volkes (1849); Ein Staatsgeheimnis (1854); Verschlungene Wege (1867); See also:Die Herberge der Gerechtigkeit (1879) . See also:Schucking wrote a number of See also:short stories: Aus den Tagen der grossen Kaiserin (1858) and Neue Novellen (1877) . In Annette von Droste-Hills/toff (q.v.) (1862) he gives a See also:sketch of this poet and acknowledges his indebtedness to her beneficial See also:influence upon his mind . There appeared posthumously, Lebenserinnerungen (1886) and Briefe von Annette von Droste-Hulsho.f and Levin Schucking (1893) . His wife, Luise (1815-1855), daughter of the See also:General Freiherr von See also:Gall, in the See also:Hessian service, published some novels and romances of considerable merit . Among the latter may be mentioned Gegen den Strom (1851) and Der neue Kreuzritter (1853) . Schucking's Gesammelte Erzdhlungen and Novellen appeared in 6 vols . (1859-1866); Ausgewdhlte Romane (12 vols., 1864; and See also:series, also 12 vols., 1874–1876) .

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