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JOHANN See also:LUDWIG See also:UHLAND (1787-1862) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at See also:Tubingen on the 26th of See also:April 1787 . He studied See also:jurisprudence at the university of his native See also:place, but also devoted much See also:time to See also:medieval literature . Having graduated as a See also:doctor of See also:laws in 1810, he went for some months to See also:Paris; and from 1812 to 1814 he worked at his profession in See also:Stuttgart, in the See also:bureau of the See also:minister of See also:justice . He had begun his career as a poet in 1807 and 1808 by contributing See also:ballads and lyrics to L. von Seckendorff's Musenalmanach; and in 1812 and 1813 he wrote poems for J . See also:Kerner's Poetischer Almanach and Deutscher Dichterteald . In 1815 he collected his poems in a See also:volume entitled Gedichte, which almost immediately secured a wide circle of readers . To almost every new edition he added some fresh poems . He wrote two dramatic See also:works—See also:Ernst, See also:Herzog von Schwaben and See also:Ludwig der Baler—the former published in 1818, the latter in 1819 . These, however, are unimportant in comparison with his Gedichte . As a lyric poet, See also:Uhland must be classed with the writers of the romantic school, for, like them, he found in the See also:middle ages the subjects which appealed most strongly to his See also:imagination . But his See also:style has a precision,, suppleness and See also:grace which sharply distinguish his most characteristic writings from those of the romantic poets . Uhland wrote manly poems in See also:defence of freedom, and in the states See also:assembly of See also:Wurttemberg he played a distinguished See also:part as one of the most vigorous and consistent of the liberal members . In 1829 he was made extraordinary See also:professor of German literature at the university of Tubingen, but he resigned this See also:appointment in 1833, when it was found to be incompatible with his See also:political views . In 1848 he became a member of the See also:Frankfort See also:parliament . Uhland was not only a poet and politician; he was also an ardent student of the See also:history of literature . In 1812 he published an interesting See also:essay on Das altfranzosische Epos; and ten years afterwards this was followed by an admirable See also:work on See also:Walther von der Vogelweide . He was also the author of an elaborate study of Der Mythus von See also:Thor nach nordischen Quellen (1836), and he formed a valuable collection of Alte hock- and niederdeutsche Volkslieder, which appeared in 1844-1845 . He died at Tubingen on the 13th of See also:November 1862 . Uhland's Gesammelte Werke, edited by H . See also:Fischer, were published in 1892 in 6 vols . ; also by L . See also:Frankel (2 vols., 1893) and L . Holthof (1901) . His Gedichte passed through nearly fifty See also:editions in the poet's lifetime; See also:jubilee edition of the Gedichte and Dramen (1886) . A See also:critical edition by E . See also:Schmidt and J . See also:Hartmann appeared in 1898 (2 vols.) . Uhland's Schriften zur Geschichte der Dichtung and See also:Sage were published in 8 vols . (1865–1873); his Tagebuch von 1810–z82o by J . Hartmann (1893) . See F . Notter, L . Uhland, sein Leben and See also:seine Dichtungen (1863); K . See also:Mayer, L . Uhland, seine Freunde and Zeitgenossen (2 vols., 1867) ; L . Uhlands Leben (with Nachlass), by his widow (1874); A. von See also:Keller, Uhland als Dramatiker (1877); H .
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