Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

THEODOR WOLDSEN STORM (1817-1888)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 969 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

THEODOR WOLDSEN See also:

STORM (1817-1888)  , See also:German poet and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Husum, in See also:Schleswig, on the 14th` of See also:September 1817 . Having studied See also:jurisprudence at See also:Kiel and See also:Berlin, where he formed a See also:close friendship with the See also:brothers Theodor and Tycho See also:Mommsen, he settled in his native See also:town as See also:advocate; but, owing to his German sympathies, lost his See also:post 111 1853 . Entering the Prussian service as See also:assessor at See also:Potsdam. he was appointed See also:district See also:judge at See also:Heiligenstadt . After the 1 In that See also:country its See also:numbers are said to have greatly diminished since about 1858, when a disastrous See also:spring See also:storm overtook the homeward-See also:bound birds . The like is to be said of See also:Holland since about 186o . 2 To consult its convenience a See also:stage of some See also:kind, often a See also:cart-See also:wheel, is in many places set up and generally occupied by successive generations of tenants . 3 Its See also:common Dutch name is Ooijevaar, which can be traced through many forms (Koolmann, Worterb. d. ostfries . Sprache, i.'8, sub voce " Adebar ") to the old word Odeboro (" the bringer of See also:good ") . In countries where the See also:stork is abundant it enters, largely into popular tales, songs and See also:proverbs, and from the days of See also:Aesop has been a favourite in See also:fable . Danish See also:War of 1864 Storm returned to Husum, and after filling various judicial appointments in the district, retired on a See also:pension and died at Hademarschen on the 4th of See also:July 1888 . Storm is hardly less remarkable as a lyric poet than as a novelist . As the former, he made his debut, with the two Mommsens, with Liederbuch dreier Freunde (1843); but his Gedichte (1852; 12th edition, 1900) first obtained for him See also:general recognition .

As a novelist he gained his first See also:

great success with Immensee (1852; 51St edition, 1901); and this was followed by numerous other See also:short stories . He was never weary of See also:painting the scenes of rustic simplicity and the quiet joys of the See also:simple See also:life . He is at his best when dealing retrospectively with episodes and incidents from his own earlier life . Later he passed to psychological problems with Aquis submersus (1877) and Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (1884), and made a deep impression with his fantastic Schimmelreiter (1888) . Storm's Gesammelte Schriften appeared in 19 vols. between 1868 and 1889; new edition in 8 vols . (1898) . His See also:correspondence with E . See also:Morike was published in 1891, with G . See also:Keller in 1904 . See E . See also:Schmidt, Charakteristiken, i . (1886); also P .

Schutze, Theodor Storm, sein Leben and See also:

seine Dichtung (1887) ; F . Wehl, Theodor Storm, ein Bild seines Lebens and Schaffens (1888); A . Biese, Th . Storm and der moderne Realismus (1888) ; and P . Remer, Theodor Storm als norddeutscher Dichter (1897) .

End of Article: THEODOR WOLDSEN STORM (1817-1888)
[back]
STORM (in O. Eng..storm, and so in Du. and Low Ger....
[next]
STORNOWAY (Norse, Sljarna vagr, " Stjarna's Bay ")

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.