SCHEFER, LEOPOLD (17841862)

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SCHEFER, LEOPOLD (17841862) , German poet and novelist, was born at Muskau in Lower Lusatia on the 3oth of July 1784,and educated at the gymnasium of Bautzen. In 1813, he was appointed manager of the estates of Prince Puckler-Muskau (q.v.). The prince, recognizing the literary abilities of the

young

man, encouraged his early poetical efforts and gave him the means to travel. After visiting England, Italy,

Greece

GREECE

and Turkey, Schefer returned in 182o to Muskau, where he lived in easy circumstances and with abundant leisure for his literary pursuits, until his death on the 16th of February 1862. Schefer wrote a large number of short stories which appeared in several

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

, Novellen (5 vols., 1825-1829); Neue Novellen (4 vols., 18311835); Lavabecher (2 vols., 1833); Kleine Romane (6 vols., 18361837). The historical novel Die Grdfin Ulfeld (2 vols., 1834), and the piquant

satire

SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

, Die Sibylle von Mantua (1852), were published separately. But Schefer is less known for his novels. which are lacking in plastic power and creative

imagination

IMAGINATION

, than for a volume of charming poems, Laienbrevier (18341835). These, owing to their warmth of feeling and fascinating descriptions of the beauties of nature, at once established his fame as a poet. This vein, in close imitation of his friend the poet Richard Georg Spiller von Hauenschild, known under the pseudonym Max Waldau (18221855), he followed in later years with the poems Vigilien (1843), Der Weltpriester (1846), and Hausreden (1869). His Hafts in Hellas (Hamburg, 1853) and Koran der Liebe (Hamburg, 1855) contain with their glowing descriptions of the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

original

ORIGINAL

poetry of a high order.
A selection of Schefer's works, Ausgewahlte Werke, in 12 vols., was published in 1845 (2nd ed., 1857). See J. Schmidt, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur cm 19. Jahrhundert, vol. ii.; E. Brenning

Leopold

LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from hut, Mod. Ger. Leute, " people," and paid, " bold," i.e. " bold for the people ")

Schefer (1884); and L. Geiger in Dichter and Frauen (1896).

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