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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
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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
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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
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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
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The like is to be said of See also: 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) . |
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