biography
pronunciation:
[hairvek]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1817–75)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Stuttgart, SW Germany. The son of an innkeeper, he abandoned theology for a literary career. His polemical Gedichte eines Lebendigen (1841–3), whose lyrics combined revolutionary sentiment with popular forms of expression and put him at the forefront of the ‘Vormärz’ revolutionary movement, led to such triumphs as an audience with Friedrich Wilhelm IV, but exile to Paris soon followed. In 1863 he wrote for Ferdinand Lassalle the workers' hymn Mann der Arbeit, aufgewacht! Helping to orchestrate the 1848 rebellion in Baden, he returned home only in 1866. |
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