HARTMANN, MORITZ (18211872)

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HARTMANN, MORITZ (18211872) , German poet and author, was born of Jewish parentage at Duschnik in Bohemia on the 15th of October 1821. Having studied philosophy at Prague and Vienna, he travelled in

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and became tutor in a family at Vienna. In 1845 he proceeded to

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

and there published a volume of patriotic poems, Kelch and Schwert (1845). Fearing in consequence prosecution at the hands of the authorities, he abided events in France and Belgium,. and after issuing in

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

Neuere Gedichte (1846) returned

home

, suffered a short

term

TERM

of imprisonment, and in 1848 was elected member for Leitmeritz in the short-lived German

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

at Frankfort-on-Main, in which he sided with the extreme Radical party. He took part with Robert Blum (18071848) in the revolution of that year in Vienna, but contrived to escape to London and Paris. In 1849 he published Reimchronik des Pfaffen Mauritius, a satirical political poem in the style of Heine. During the Crimean War (185456) Hartmann was correspondent of the Kolnische Zeitung, settled in 186o in Geneva as a teacher of German literature and history, became in 1865 editor of the Freya in

Stuttgart

STUTTGART

and in 1868 a member of the staff of the Neue Freie Presse in Vienna. He died at Oberdobling near Vienna on the 13th of May 1872.
Among Hartmann's numerous works may be especially mentioned Der Krieg um den Wald (185o), a novel, the scene of which is laid in Bohemia; Tagebuch aus

Languedoc

LANGUEDOC

and

Provence

PROVENCE (Provincia, Proenza)

(1852) ; Erzahlungen eines Unsteten (1858) ; and Die letzten Tage eines Konigs (1867). His idyll,

Adam

and Eva (1851), and his collection of poetical tales, Schatten (1851), show that the author possessed but little talent for epic narrative. Hartmann's poems are often lacking in genuine poetical feeling, but the love of liberty which inspired them, and the fervour, ease and clearness of their style compensated for these shortcomings and gained for him a wide circle of admirers.
His Gesammelte Werke were published in ro vols. in 18731874, and a selection of his Gedichte in the latter year. The first two volumes of a new edition of his works contain a

biography

BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

of Hartmann by O. Wittner. See also E. Ziel, " Moritz Hartmann (in Unsere Zeit, 1872) ; A. Marchand, Les Poetes lyriques de l'Autriche (1892) ; Brandes, Das junge Deutschland (Charlottenburg, 1899).

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