Julius Hammer
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Friedrich Julius Hammer (born June 7, 1810 in Dresden , † August 23, 1862 in Pillnitz ) was a German writer and poet and co-founder of the German Schiller Foundation .
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Hammer studied law in Leipzig in 1831 , then switched to philosophy and literature . In 1834 he returned to Dresden. A comedy , The Strange Breakfast , gave him access to the city's literary society, especially Ludwig Tieck , and since then he has only been active as a writer.
Between 1851 and 1859 he worked for the Saxon constitutional newspaper and in 1855 was a founding member of the German Schiller Foundation . His marriage in 1851 made him financially independent and he bought a small country estate in Pillnitz , where he died after several years in Nuremberg. His grave is in the old Hosterwitzer cemetery, the Maria am Wasser churchyard .
He was a member of the Isis Natural Science Society in Dresden and was close to the Dresdner Liederkreis .
Works
Hammer wrote, among other comedies and romances , the drama The Brothers (1856) and the novella Einkehr und Umkehr (Leipzig, 1856), although his fame is based on his poems. His volume of poems Look around you, and look into you (1851), was published in more than thirty editions. It was followed by In all good hours (1854), Fester Grund (1857), On quiet paths (1859), and Lerne, liebe, lebe (1862).
He also wrote a work on Turkish songs, Under the Crescent (Leipzig, 1860), and rhymed versions of the Psalms (1861). He also compiled an anthology of popular religious texts: Life and Home in God , of which the fourteenth edition was published in 1900.
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Web links
- Literature by and about Julius Hammer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Julius Hammer in the German Digital Library
- Poems by Julius Hammer
- Julius Hammer in the Stadtwiki Dresden
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| SURNAME | Hammer, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hammer, Friedrich Julius (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 23, 1862 |
| Place of death | Pillnitz |