Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff

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Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolf alias Pliny the Youngest

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff (born July 26, 1799 in Altona (Elbe) , today district of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ; † September 13, 1851 in Jena ) was a German writer, humorist and educator.

life and work

As the only son of the Jewish businessman Eisig Wolff and the banker's daughter Rebecca Israel, he studied in Berlin and Kiel and obtained his doctorate in philosophy in Jena. In Hamburg he worked temporarily as a teacher and music critic and from 1825, if only for one year, appeared as an improviser in many cities in Germany. This was also the case in Weimar, where he came into contact with Goethe . In 1827 he received a professorship for literature at the University of Jena and lived in Jena and Weimar until his death. He gave the Berlin student Karl Marx his doctorate in absentia in 1841 in Jena. In 1848/49 he sympathized with the republican movement in Germany. Wolff was in contact with Heinrich Heine , Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner , among others .

Wolff was a prolific writer and also published under the pseudonym " Pliny the Youngest ". He wrote novels, short stories, humorists, poems, travel letters, literary feature sections, anthologies and reading books; translated from English, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin and Greek, and helped with the editing of paperback books and fashion journals, penny magazines and hand dictionaries. In 25 years he had earned well over a hundred titles.

Fonts (selection)

  • General history of the novel: from its origins to the most recent times
  • The poetic treasure of the German people
  • Collection of historical folk songs and poems by the Germans
  • Instructional and manual of judicial eloquence
  • A treasure trove of English poetry
  • The most beautiful fairy tales and legends of all times and peoples
  • Natural history of the German student. - Leipzig: Weber, 1842. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • The little sufferings of human life. Illustrated by JJ Grandville. JJ Weber, Leipzig 1843.
  • Encyclopedia of German National Literature: or, biographical-critical lexicon of German poets and prose writers; since the earliest times together with samples from their works, 8 vols., Wiegand, Leipzig 1835–1847

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SURNAME Wolff, Oskar Ludwig Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Oscar Ludwig Bernhard; Pliny the Youngest (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, humorist, educator
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1851
Place of death Jena