Wolfgang Menzel, German poet, critic and literary historian, was born at Waldenburg in Silesia. He studied at Breslau, Jena and Bonn, and after living for some time in Aarau and Heidelberg finally settled in Stuttgart, where, from 1830 to 1838, he had a seat in the Württemberg Diet.

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  • Wolfgang Menzel, German poet, critic and literary historian, was born at Waldenburg in Silesia. He studied at Breslau, Jena and Bonn, and after living for some time in Aarau and Heidelberg finally settled in Stuttgart, where, from 1830 to 1838, he had a seat in the Württemberg Diet. His first work, a clever and original volume of poems, entitled Streckverse (Heidelberg, 1823), was followed in 1824-1825 by a popular Geschichte der Deutschen in three volumes and in 1829 and 1830 by Rubezahl and Narcissus, the dramatized fairy-stories upon which his reputation as a poet chiefly rests. In 1851 he published the romance of Furore, a lively picture of the period of the Thirty Years War; his other writings include Geschichte Europas, 1789-1815 (2 vols. Stuttgart, 1853), and histories of the German War of 1866 and of the Franco-German War of 1870-71. From 1826 to 1848 Menzel edited a Literaturblatt in connection with the Morgenblatt; in the latter year he transferred his allegiance from the Liberal to the Conservative party, and in 1852 his Literaturblatt was revived in that interest. In 1866 his political sympathies again changed, and he opposed the particularism of the Prussian junkers and the anti-unionism of south Germany. He died on the 23rd of April 1873 at Stuttgart. His library of 18,000 volumes was afterwards acquired for the university of Strassburg. Menzel was a strident opponent of innovation in poetry and in particular of Heinrich Heine.
  • Wolfgang Menzel war ein deutscher Literaturkritiker und Schriftsteller im Vormärz.
  • Wolfgang Menzel var en tysk dikter og forfatter under senromantikken. Som ung mann deltok han i frihetskrigen mot Napoleon. Fra 1825 ble han redaktør for et litterært blad i Stuttgart, og var dessuten medlem av den württembergiske landdagen (parlamentet) mellom 1833 og 1838. Hans viktigste verk er hans litteraturhistorie, som utkom i to bind i 1827 og 1836. Han var opprinnelig liberaler, men sluttet seg senere til det konservative partiet og orienterte seg mot romantisk inspirert völkisch (etnisk) nasjonalisme. Wolfgang Menzel er særlig kjent som opphavsmann til den meget siterte frasen om tyskerne som et folk «av diktere og tenkere» (das Land der Dichter und Denker). I Die deutsche Literatur skrev han: Die Deutschen thun nicht viel, aber sie schreiben desto mehr. [... ] Das sinnige deutsche Volk liebt es zu denken und zu dichten, und zum Schreiben hat es immer Zeit. Es hat sich die Buchdruckerkunst selbst erfunden, und nun arbeitet es unermüdlich an der großen Maschine. [... ] Was wir in der einen Hand haben mögen, in der anderen Hand haben wir immer ein Buch
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  • Wolfgang Menzel, German poet, critic and literary historian, was born at Waldenburg in Silesia. He studied at Breslau, Jena and Bonn, and after living for some time in Aarau and Heidelberg finally settled in Stuttgart, where, from 1830 to 1838, he had a seat in the Württemberg Diet.
  • Wolfgang Menzel war ein deutscher Literaturkritiker und Schriftsteller im Vormärz.
  • Wolfgang Menzel var en tysk dikter og forfatter under senromantikken. Som ung mann deltok han i frihetskrigen mot Napoleon. Fra 1825 ble han redaktør for et litterært blad i Stuttgart, og var dessuten medlem av den württembergiske landdagen (parlamentet) mellom 1833 og 1838. Hans viktigste verk er hans litteraturhistorie, som utkom i to bind i 1827 og 1836.
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