Gustav Pfizer (1807–1890) was a German poet and
critic 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
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; the critical work ''
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und
Rückert'' (1837); and an attack on
Heinrich Heine, which Heine replied to in his work ''Der Schwabenspiegel'' (“The Swabian mirror,” 1838). Pfizer's poetry has been said to be more original and reflective than most of the products of the Swabian school.
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1807 births
1890 deaths
German literary critics
Writers from Stuttgart
German male poets
19th-century German poets
19th-century German male writers
German male non-fiction writers