biography
| name: |
Scheffel, Joseph Viktor von
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pronunciation:
[shefel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1826–86)
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in Karlsruhe, SW Germany. His career included a spell as court counsellor in Saxony. His poems, verse epics, and prose, romantic-nationalist in tone, were great favourites with the educated middle classses at the end of the 19th-c, particularly the mediaeval novel Ekkehard (1855) and the verse epic Der Trompeter von Säckingen (1854), although now regarded as over-sentimental. Through the song Wohlauf, die Luft geht frisch und rein... he became Franconia's bard, and such student drinking songs as Alt-Heidelberg, du feine and Als die Römer frech geworden are also still sung today. |
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