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FRIEDRICH VON SPIELHAGEN (1829- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 667 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRIEDRICH VON See also:SPIELHAGEN (1829- )  , See also:German novelist, was See also:born at See also:Magdeburg on the 24th of See also:February 1829 . He was brought up at See also:Stralsund, where his See also:father was in 1835 appointed See also:government architect; he attended the gymnasium there, and studied See also:law, and subsequently literature and See also:philosophy, at the See also:universities of See also:Berlin, See also:Bonn and Greifswald . On leaving the university he became a See also:master in a gymnasium at I eipzig, but upon his father's See also:death in 1854 devoted himself See also:SPIKENARD 66y entirely to See also:writing . After See also:publishing Klara See also:Vere (x857) and Auf der Dune (1858), he obtained a striking success with Problematische Naturen (186o-1861), one of the best novels of its See also:time; it was followed by See also:Die von See also:Hohenstein (1863), In Reih' and Glied (1866), See also:Hammer and Amboss (1869), Deutsche Pioniere (1870), Allzeit varanl (1872), Sturmflut (1876), Plattland (1878),Quisisana (i 88o), Angeia (1881), Uhlenhans (1884), Ein newer Pharao (1889), Faustulus (1897) and Froigeboren (rgoo) . See also:Spielhagen's best See also:work was produced between the years 186o and 1876; he wrote nothing after Sturmfiut which can be compared with that powerful See also:romance . His novels combine two elements of especial See also:power, the masculine assertion of See also:liberty which renders him the favourite of the intelligent and progressive See also:citizen, and the ruthless See also:war he See also:wages against the self-See also:indulgence of the See also:age . His love of the See also:sea, derived from an See also:early See also:residence at Stralsund, introduces an See also:element of See also:poetry into his novels which is some-what rare in German fiction . Spielhagen's dramatic productions, Hans and Grete (1868) and Liebe See also:fur Liebe (1875), and others, cannot compare with his novels . From '878-1884 he was editor of Weslermann's Monatshefte . Spielhagen's Sdmtliche Werke were published in 1871. in sixteen volumes, in 1878 in fourteen volumes; his Samtliche Romane in 1898 (22 vols.), and these were followed by a new See also:series in 1902 . See his autobiography, Finder and Erfinder (2 vols., 1890) ; also G . Karpeles, F .

Spielhagen (1889), and H. and J . See also:

Hart, Kritische Waffengange (1886) .

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