Gustav Pfizer (1807–1890) was a German poet and
critic
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of the
Swabian school.
Biography
He was born in
Stuttgart, studied at
Tübingen
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, and in 1840 became professor at the
gymnasium in Stuttgart. He wrote ''Gedichte'' (1831), ''Dichtungen epischer und episch-lyrischer Gattung'' (1840), and ''Der Welsche und der Deutsche'' (1844); translations of
Bulwer and
Byron
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; the critical work ''
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