His library of 18,000 volumes was afterwards acquired for the university of Strassburg. He died on the 23rd of April 1873 at Stuttgart.

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our. Opening hours, contacts and reviews for Wolfgang Menzel at Pekrunstr. In 1866 his political sympathies again changed, and he opposed the 'particularism' of the Prussian 'junkers' and the anti-unionism of south Germany. Wolfgang Menzel English (United King Log in. From 1826 to 1848 Menzel edited a 'Literaturblatt' in connexion with the Morgenblatt in the latter year he transferred his allegiance from the Liberal to the Conservative party, and in 1852 his 'Literaturblatt' was revived in that interest. Stuttgart, 1853), and histories of the German War of 1866 and of the Franco-German War of 1870-71. In 1851 he published the romance of Furore, a lively picture of the period of the Thirty Years' War his other writings include Geschichte Europas, 1789-1815 (2 vols.

His first work, a clever and original volume of poems, entitled Streckverse (Heidelberg, 1823), was followed in1824-1825by a popular Geschichte der Deutschen in three volumes and in 18 by Riibezahl and Narcissus, the dramatized fairy-stories upon which his reputation as a poet chiefly rests. WOLFGANG MENZEL (1798-1873), German poet, critic and literary historian, was born on the 21st of June 1798, at Waldenburg in Silesia, studied at Breslau, Jena and Bonn, and after living for some time in Aarau and Heidelberg finally settled in Stuttgart, where, from 1830 to 1838, he had a seat in the Wurttemberg Diet. McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia

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