Julius Waldemar Grosse (25 April 1828 – 9 May 1902),

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, the son of a military chaplain, was born at

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Biography

He received his early education at the gymnasium in

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, and on leaving school and showing disinclination for the

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, entered an

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's office. But his mind was bent upon

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, and in 1849 he entered the

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, where, although inscribed as a student of

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, he devoted himself almost exclusively to letters. His first poetical

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was with the tragedy ''

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'' (1851), followed in the same year by a comedy, ''Eine Nachtpartie

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s'', which was at once produced on the stage. The success of these first two pieces encouraged him to follow literature as a profession, and proceeding in 1852 to

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, he joined the circle of young poets of whom

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and

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(1820-1905) were the chief. For six years (1855-1861) he was dramatic critic of the Neue Münchener Zeitung, and was then for a while on the staff of the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung, but in 1862 he returned to Munich as editor of the Bayrische Zeitung, a post he retained until the paper ceased to exist in 1867. In 1869 Grosse was appointed secretary of the

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-Stiftung, and lived for the next few years alternately in

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and Munich, until, in 1890, he took up his permanent residence in Weimar. He was made Grand-ducal Hofrat and had the title of professor. He died at Torbole on the Lago di Garda on 9 May 1902. Grosse was a most prolific writer of novels, dramas and poems. As a lyric poet, especially in ''Gedichte'' (1857) and ''Aus bewegten Tagen'', a volume of poems (1869), he showed himself more to advantage than in his novels, of which latter, however, ''Untreu aus Mitleid'' (2 vols, 1868); ''Vox populi, vox dei'' (1869); ''Maria Mancini'' (1871); ''Neue Erzahlungen'' (1875); ''Sophie Monnier'' (1876), and ''Ein Frauenlos'' (1888) are remarkable for a certain elegance of style. His tragedies, ''Die Ynglinger'' (1858); ''Tiberius'' (180); ''Johann von Schwaben''; and the comedy ''Die steinerne Braut'', had considerable success on the stage. Grosse's ''Gesammelte dramatische Werke'' appeared in 7 vols in Leipzig (1870), while his ''Erzahlende Dichtungen'' were published at Berlin (6 vols, 1871-1873). See also his autobiography, ''Literarische Ursachen und Wirkungen'' (1896); R Prutz, ''Die Literatur der Gegenwart'' (1859); J Eth, ''J. Grosse all epischer Dichter'' (1872).

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