Hermann Marggraff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hermann Marggraff

German writer

Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1809

Place of Birth: Sulechów, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 11-Feb-1864

Profession: writer, poet, biographer, journalist, literary critic

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Hermann Marggraff (1809–64) was a German poet and humorous author.
He was born at Züllichau;Brandenburg, studied at Berlin; and, devoting himself to journalism, lived and wrote in Leipzig, Munich, Augsburg, and Frankfort, finally settling in Leipzig (1853) as editor of the Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung.
He wrote the critical essay, Deutschlands Jüngste Kultur- und Litteraturepoche (1839); several plays, e.
g., Das Täubchen von Amsterdam; humorous novels, including Justus und Chrysostomus, Gebrüder Pech (1840), Johannes Mackel (1841), and Fritz Beutel (1855), after the fashion of Baron Munchausen; a biography of Ernst Schulze (Leipzig, 1855); Schillers und Kärners Freundschaftsbund (1859); Gedichte (1857); Balladenchronik (1862).