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Hermann Marggraff
German writer
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1809
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1864
country of citizenship: Kingdom of Prussia
languages spoken, written or signed: German
occupation: journalist, poet, writer, literary critic, biographer

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).
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4Noch ein ungedrucktes Lied von Hermann Marggraff ( 1864 )
german article in Die Gartenlaube, 1864, no. 27
author: Hermann Marggraff
Honorius und sein Hahn ( 1857 )
german article in Die Gartenlaube, 1857, no. 39
author: Hermann Marggraff
Heimgegangene. Friedrich List ( 1858 )
german article in Die Gartenlaube, 1858, no. 15
author: Hermann Marggraff
Heimgegangene. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. Friedrich List ( 1858 )
german article in Die Gartenlaube, 1858, no. 14
author: Hermann Marggraff