JULIUS

See also:

• STURM
• JULIUS STURM (1816-1896)

STURM (1816-1896)  , German poet, was born at Kostritz in the principality of Reuss on the 21st of July 1816 . He studied theology at Jena from 1837 to 1841, and was appointed preceptor to the hereditary prince Henry XIV. of Reuss . In 1851 he became pas-tor. of Goschitz near Schleiz, and in 1857 at his native village of Kostritz . In 1885 he retired with the title of Geheimkirchenrat . He died at Leipzig on the and of May 1896 . Sturm was a writer of lyrics and sonnets and of church poetry, breathing a spirit of deep piety and patriotism . His religious poems were published in Fromme Lieder (pt. i., Leipzig, 1852; 12th ed., 1893; pt. ii., 1858; pt. iii., 1892), Zwei Rosen, oder das hohe Lied der Liebe (Leipzig, 1854; 2nd ed., 1892), Israelitische Lieder (3rd ed., Halle, 1881) and Palme and Krone (Leipzig, 1888) . His chief lyrics were issued in Gedichte (6th ed., Leipzig, 1892), New Gedichte (2nd ed., Leipzig, r88o), Lieder and Bilder (2nd ed., 1892), Kampf- and Siegergedichte (Halle, 1870), Neue Lieder (188o, 2nd ed., 1888), Neue lyr sche Gedichie (Leipzig, 1894) and In Freud and Leid, letzte Lieder (1896) . See A . Hepding, Julius Sturm (Giessen, 1896) ; F . Hoffmann, Julius Sturm (Hamburg, 1898) .