Moritz Hartmann
| Moritz Hartmann | |
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| Born |
15 October 1821 Trhové Dušníky |
| Died | 13 May 1872 (aged 50) Oberdöbling |
| Language | German |
| Nationality | German |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Literary movement | The Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas |
Moritz Hartmann (15 October 1821 - 13 May 1872) was a German poet and author.
Hartmann was born of Jewish parentage at Duschnik (Czech: Dušníky, also known as Trhové Dušníky) in Bohemia. As a young man, Hartmann abandoned Judaism although he never formally converted to Christianity.
Having studied philosophy at Prague and Vienna, he travelled in south Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and became tutor in a family at Vienna. In 1845, he proceeded to Leipzig and there published a volume of patriotic poems, Kelch und Schwert (1845). Fearing in consequence prosecution at the hands of the authorities, he abided events in France and Belgium, and after issuing in Leipzig Neuere Gedichte (1846) returned home, where he suffered a short term of imprisonment.
In 1848, he was elected member for Leitmeritz in the short-lived German parliament at Frankfurt-am-Main, in which he sided with the extreme radical party. He took part with Robert Blum in the revolution of that year in Vienna. On its collapse, he joined the “rump parliament” (a remnant of the Frankfurt parliament) in Stuttgart, and finally escaped 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 (1854–56) Hartmann was correspondent of the Kölnische Zeitung. In 1860, he settled in Geneva as a teacher of German literature and history, became in 1865 editor of the Freya in Stuttgart and in 1868 a member of the staff of the Neue Freie Presse in Vienna.
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