FOLLEN, KARL (1795-1840)

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FOLLEN, KARL (1795-1840) , German poet and patriot, brother of A. L. Follen, was born at Romrod in Hesse-

Darmstadt

DARMSTADT

, on the 5th of September 1795. He first studied theology at Giessen, but after the campaign of 1814, in which, like his brother August, he took part as a Hessian volunteer, began the study of jurisprudence, and in 1818 established himself as Privatdocent
FONBLANQUE
of civil law at Giessen. Owing to being suspected of political intrigues, he removed to Jena, and thence, after the assassination of Kotzebue, fled to France. Here again the political murder of the duc de

Berry

, on the 14th of January 182o, led to Follen being regarded as a suspect, and he accordingly took

refuge

REFUGE

in Switzerland, where he taught for a while at the cantonal school at Coire and at the university of Basel; but the Prussian authorities imperatively demanding his surrender, he sought in 1824 the hospitality of the United States of America. Here he became an instructor in German at Harvard in 1825, and in 183o obtained an appointment as professor of German language and literature there; but his

anti

ANTI, or CAMPA

-slavery agitation having given umbrage to the authorities, he forfeited his post in 1835, and was ordained Unitarian minister of a chapel at Lexington in Massachusetts in 1836. He perished at sea on board a steamboat which was totally consumed by fire while on a voyage from New

York

YORK
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HOUSE
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  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
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YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

to Boston, on the night of the 13th-14th of January 184o. Follen was the author of several celebrated patriotic songs written in the interests of liberty. The best is perhaps Horch (Jul, ihr Fiirsten I Du Volk, horch auf I of which Johannes Wit, called von Dorring (1800-1863), was long, though erroneously, considered the author. It was published in A. L. Follen's collection of patriotic songs, Freie Stimmen f rischer Jugend.
His wife Elisa Lee (1787-186o), an American authoress of some reputation, published after his death his lectures and sermons, with a biography written by herself (5 vols., Boston, 1846).

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