Hans Hopfen
Demetrius Hans (Ritter von) Hopfen (3 January 1835 – 19 November 1904) was a Bavarian poet and novelist. Hans Hopfen (originally Mayer), the son of Angelotta Mayer (1807-1880), was born in Munich. At the age of 10 he was acknowledged by his father Simon Hopfen. Hans studied law and history from 1853 to 1858 in Munich, where he was a member of the Corps Franconia. He retired from the Bavarian civil service soon after the referendary and began publishing his songs and ballads (''Lieder und Balladen'') in Emanuel Geibel's ''Münchener Dichterbuch'' (1862); he was soon inducted into the Munich circle of writers known as ''Die Krokodile''. By the age of 25 he had earned a reputation as a gifted romantic with his lyrical poems (especially the powerful ballad of the ''Sendlinger Bauernschlacht'', one of the highlights of his career) and the humorous peasant novel ''Der alte Praktikant''. Efforts to further his education led him to Venice in 1862, Paris in 1863, and Vienna in 1864, where ...
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''Die Gartenlaube – Illustriertes Familienblatt'' (; ) was the first successful mass-circulation German language, German newspaper and a forerunner of all modern magazines.Sylvia Palatschek: ''Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries'' (Oxford: Berghahn, 2010) p. 41 It was founded by publisher Ernst Keil and editor Ferdinand Stolle in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony in 1853. Their objective was to reach and enlighten the whole family, especially in the German middle classes, with a mixture of current events, essays on the natural sciences, biographical sketches, short stories, poetry, and full-page illustrations.Kirsten Belgum: "Domesticating the Reader: Women and Die Gartenlaube" in: ''Women in German Yearbook 9'' (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993) p. 93-100 At the height of its popularity ''Die Gartenlaube'' was widely read across the German speaking world. It could be found in all List of historic states of Germany, German states, the German colonies i ...
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