See also:

• WICKRAM, JORG, or GEORG (d. c. 156o)

WICKRAM, JORG, or GEORG (d. c. 156o)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German poet and novelist, was a native of See also:

• COLMAR, or KOLMAR

Colmar in See also:

• ALSACE (Ger. Elsass)

Alsace; the date of his See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth is unknown . He passed the latter See also:

• PART

part of his See also:

• LIFE

life as See also:

• TOWN

town clerk of Burgheim on the See also:

• RHINE (Lat. Rhenus, Ger. Rhein, Fr. Rhin, Dutch Rhyn, or Rijn)

Rhine, and died before 1562 . See also:

• WICKRAM, JORG, or GEORG (d. c. 156o)

Wickram was a many-sided writer . He founded a See also:

• MEISTERSINGER (Ger. for " master-singer ")

Meistersinger school in Colmar in 1549, and has See also:

• LEFT

left a number of Meistersingerlieder . He edited Albrecht von See also:

• HALBERSTADT

Halberstadt's See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle High German version of See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid's Metamorphoses (1545), and in 1555 he published Das Rollwagenbuclzlein, one of the best of the many German collections of tales and anecdotes which appeared in the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of the See also:

• BOOK

book implies its See also:

• OBJECT

object, namely, to See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply See also:

• READING

reading for the traveller in the " Rollwagen " or diligences . As a dramatist, Wickram wrote Fastnachtsspiele (Das Narrengiessen, 1537; Der treue Eckart, 1538) and two dramas on biblical subjects, Der verlorene Sohn (1540) and Tobias (1551) . A moralizing poem, Der irrereitende Pilger (1556), is See also:

• HALF

half-satiric, half-didactic . It is, however, as a novelist that Wickram has left the deepest See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark on his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, his See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief romances being See also:

• RITTER, HEINRICH (1791-1869)
• RITTER, KARL (1779–1859)

Ritter Galmy aus Schott/and (1539), Gabriotto and Reinhard (1554), Der Knabenspiegel (1554), Von guten and bosen Nachbarn (1556) and Der Goldfaden (15J7) . These may be regarded as the earliest attempts in German literature to create that See also:

• MODERN

modern type of middle-class fiction which ultimately took the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of the decadent See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval See also:

• ROMANCE

romance of See also:

• CHIVALRY (O. Fr. chevalerie, from Late Lat. caballerius)

chivalry . Wickram's See also:

• WORKS

works have been edited by J . Bolte and W .

Scheel for the See also:

• STUTTGART

Stuttgart Literarischer Verein (vols., 222, 223, 229, 230, 1900–1903) ; Der Ritter Galmy was republished by F. de la Motte See also:

• FOUQUE, FERDINAND ANDRE (1828-19o4)
• FOUQUE, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KARL DE LA MOTTE, BARON (1777-1843)

Fouque in 1806; Der Goldfaden by K . See also:

• BRENTANO, KLEMENS (1778-1842)
• BRENTANO, LUDWIG JOSEPH [called Lujo]

Brentano in 1809; the Rollwagenbuchlein was edited by H . See also:

• KURZ, HERMANN (1813—1873)

Kurz in 1865, and there is also a reprint of it in Reclam's Universalbibliothek . See A . Stober, J . Wickram (1866); W . See also:

• SCHERER, EDMOND HENRI ADOLPHE (1815-1889)
• SCHERER, WILHELM (1841-1886)

Scherer, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Anfange See also:

• DES

des deutschen Prosaromans (1897) .