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KURZ, HERMANN (1813—1873)

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KURZ, See also:HERMANN (1813—1873) , See also:German poet and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Reutlingen on the 3oth of See also:November 1813. Having studied at the theological See also:seminary at Maulbronn and at the university of See also:Tubingen, he was for a See also:time assistant pastor at Ehningen. He then entered upon a See also:literary career, and in 1863 was appointed university librarian at Tubingen, where he died on the loth of See also:October 1893. Kurz is less known to fame by his poems, Gedichte (1836) and Dichtungen (1839), than by his See also:historical novels, Schillers Heimatjahre (1843, 3rd ed., 1899) and Der Sonnenwirt (1854, 2nd ed., 1862), and his excellent See also:translations from See also:English, See also:Italian and See also:Spanish. He also published a successful See also:modern German version of Gottfried von See also:Strassburg's See also:Tristan and Isolde (1844). His collected See also:works were published in ten volumes (See also:Stuttgart, 1874), also in twelve volumes (See also:Leipzig, 1904). His daughter, ISOLDE KURZ, born on the 21st of See also:December 1853 at Stuttgart, takes a high See also:place among contemporary lyric poets in See also:Germany with her Gedichte (Stuttgart, 1888, 3rd ed. 1898) and Neue Gedichte (1903), Her See also:short stories, Florentiner Novellen (1890, 2nd ed. 1893), Phantasien and Marchen (1890), Italienische Erzahlungen (1895) and Von Dazumal (1900) are distinguished by a See also:fine sense of See also:form and clear-cut See also:style.

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