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Karl Hillebrand (17 September 1829 - 19 October 1884) was a German author.
He was born at Gießen, the son of Joseph Hillebrand, a literary historian and writer on philosophy.
Karl Hillebrand became involved, as a student in Heidelberg, in the Baden revolutionary movement, and was imprisoned in Rastatt in 1849. He succeeded in escaping and lived for a time in Strassburg, Paris — where for several months he was Heinrich Heine's secretary — and Bordeaux. He continued his studies, and after obtaining the doctor's degree at the Sorbonne, he was appointed teacher of German in the Ecole militaire at St Cyr, and shortly afterwards, professor of foreign literatures at Douai.
On the outbreak of the Franco-German War, he resigned his professorship and acted for a time as correspondent to The Times in Italy. He then settled in Florence, where he died on 19 October 1884.
Hillebrand wrote with facility and elegance in French, English and Italian, besides his own language. His essays, collected under the title Zeiten, Völker and Menschen (Berlin, 1874-1885), show clear discernment, a finely balanced cosmopolitan judgment and grace of style.
He undertook to write the Geschichte Frankreichs von der Thronbesteigung Ludwig Philipps bis zum Fall Napoleons III, but only two volumes were completed (to 1848) (2nd ed., 1881-1882). In French he published Des conditions de la bonne comedie (1863), La Prusse contemporaine (1867), Etudes italiennes (1868), and a translation of O. Müller's Griechische Literaturgeschichte (3rd ed., 1883).
In English, he published Public Instruction in the United States (1869) and his Royal Institution Lectures on German Thought during the Last Two Hundred Years (1880). He also edited a collection of essays dealing with Italy, under the title Italia (4 vols, Leipzig, 1874-1877).
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Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm's law of linguistics, the co-author of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales. He was the older brother of Wilhelm Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm.
August WilhelmSchlegel, usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German poet, translator and critic, and with his brother Friedrich Schlegel the leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare turned the English dramatist's works into German classics. Schlegel was also the professor of Sanskrit in Continental Europe and produced a translation of the Bhagavad Gita.
Gottfried August Bürger was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, Lenore, found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English and Russian adaptation and a French translation.
Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck, known as August Tholuck, was a German Protestant theologian, pastor, and historian, and church leader.
Heinrich Karl Ludolf von Sybel, German historian, came from a Protestant family which had long been established at Soest, in Westphalia.
Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt was a German historian.
Karl Otfried Müller was a German scholar and Philodorian, or admirer of ancient Sparta, who introduced the modern study of Greek mythology.
Johannes von Müller was a Swiss historian.
Wilhelm Scherer was a German philologist and historian of literature.
Karl Viktor Müllenhoff was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Fanny Lewald was a German novelist and essayist and a women's rights activist.
Heinrich Laube, German dramatist, novelist and theatre-director, was born at Sprottau in Prussian Silesia.
Emanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch was a German Jewish scholar of Semitic studies, the Talmud and Middle Eastern studies.
Aaron David Bernstein was a German Jewish author, reformer and scientist.
Wilhelm Lübke was a German art historian, born in Dortmund.
Alexis-François Rio was a French writer on art. Without any strict method or criticism, he expressed preference for the art of the 15th century. He contributed greatly towards recovery of the neglected art of the Middle Ages.
Wilhelm or William Hillebrand was a German physician. He practiced medicine in several different countries, including for over 20 years in the Hawaiian islands. In 1850, Hillebrand lived at what is now Foster Botanical Garden in Honolulu and gained acknowledgement as a botanist.
Karl Wilhelm Göttling was a German philologist and classical scholar.
Johann Karl Eduard Buschmann was a German philologist. His research in comparative philology was directed chiefly toward the dialects of Malaysia and Polynesia and those of Central and Northwestern America. He worked closely with Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt.
Karl Wilhelm Krüger was a German Hellenist.
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