biography
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Leland, Charles Godfrey
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pseudonym Hans Breitmann
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pronunciation:
[leeland]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1824–1903)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) (1841–5), and in Heidelberg, Munich, and Paris. He returned to Philadelphia, and after studying law he turned to a career as a journalist for periodicals in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. While he was the editor of Graham's Magazine (1857), he published a German dialect poem, ‘Hans Breitmann's Party’. This was so well received that he continued to write other verses and ballads under his pen name, and several collections were published, such as Hans Breitmann About Town (1869). He was also an advocate of introducing industrial and craft arts into American schools. An accomplished linguist and historian, he wrote on a variety of subjects, including books on the gypsies of Europe and on the ancient Etruscans, and was also known for his translations of Heine's works. From 1869 he lived mostly in Europe, then settled in London (1884) and died in Florence, Italy. |
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