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The son of a merchant and Mayor of Fallersleben, he was educated at the classical schools of Helmstedt and Brunswick, and afterwards at the universities of Göttingen and Bonn. His original intention was to study theology, but he soon devoted himself entirely to literature. In 1823 he was appointed custodian of the university library at Breslau, a post which he held till 1838. He was also made extraordinary professor of the German language and literature at that university in 1830, and ordinary professor in 1835 but he was deprived of his chair in 1842 in consequence of his Unpolitische Lieder (1840-1841), which gave much offence to the authorities in Prussia.
He then travelled in Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and lived for two or three years in Mecklenburg, of which he became a naturalized citizen. After the revolution of 1848 he was enabled to return to Prussia, where was restored to his rights, and received the Wartegeldthe salary attached to a promised office not yet vacant. He married in 1849, and during the next ten years lived first in Bingerbrück , afterwards in NeuwiedSee also Neuwied (district). Neuwied a town in the Rhineland in Germany, lies on the right bank of the Rhine, 8 miles below Coblenz, on the railway from Frankfurt am Main to Cologne. Neuwied was founded by Count Frederick of Wied in 1653, near the village, and then in WeimarFor the locality in Texas called Weimar see Weimar, Texas, there is also Weimar bei Kassel and Weimar in Marburg-Biedenkopf. Weimar is a city in Germany. It is located at 50° 58 min 6 s north / 11° 18 min 6 s east, in the Bundesland of Thuringia ( German:, where together with Oskar Schade (1826-1906) he edited the Weimarische Jahrbuch (1854-1857). In 1860Events March 6 Abraham Lincoln speaks against slavery in New Haven, Connecticut April 3 The Pony Express makes its first run. May 9 The Constitutional Union Party holds its convention and nominates John Bell for President of the United States. May 13 Batt he was appointed librarian to the Duke of Ratibor at the monasterial castle of Corvey near Hoxter on the Weser, where he died.
Fallersleben was one of the best popular poets of modern Germany. In politics he ardently sympathized with the progressive tendencies of his time, and he was among the earliest and most effective of the political poets who prepared the way for the outbreak of 1848. As a poet, however, he acquired distinction chiefly by the ease, simplicity and grace with which he gave expression to the passions and aspirations of daily life. Although he had not been scientifically trained in music, he composed melodies for many of his songs, and a considerable number of them are sung by all classes in every part of Germany. Among the best known is the patriotic " Deutschland, Deutschland uber AllesDas Lied der Deutschen ("The Song of the Germans") or Das Deutschlandlied ("The Song of Germany") has since 1922 been the national anthem of Germany. The music was written by Joseph Haydn in 1797, the words by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben in,", set to a tune by Joseph HaydnPortrait by Thomas Hardy, 1792 Franz) Joseph Haydn (in German, Josef he never used the Franz) ( March 31, 1732 May 31, 1809) was a leading composer of the classical period. He was the brother of Michael Haydn, a composer, and Johann Evangelist Haydn, a te, composed in 1841 on the island of HeligolandWorld War I. Heligoland (in German, Helgoland and in North Frisian, Lun Halilonj is a small, German, triangular-shaped island approximately 2 km long, though a smaller island east of it is usually also included. The islands (population 1,650) are located, where a monument was erected in 1891 to his memory (subsequently destroyed).
The best of his poetical writings is his Gedichte (1827; gth ed., Berlin, 1887); but there is great merit also in his Alemannische Lieder (1826; 5th ed., 1843), Soldatenlieder (1851), Soldalenleben (1852), Rheinleben (1865), and in his Fünfzig Kinderlieder, Fünfzig neue Kinderlieder, and Alte und neue Kinderlieder. His Unpolitische Lieder, Deutsche Lieder aus der Schweiz and Streiflichter are not without poetical value, but they are mainly interesting in relation to the movements of the age in which they were written.
As a student of ancient Teutonic literature Hoffmann von Fallersleben ranks among the most persevering and cultivated of German scholars, some of the chief results of his labors being embodied in his Horae Belgicae, Fundgruben fur Geschichte deutscher Sprache und Literatur, Alldeutsche Blatter, Spenden zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte and Findlinge.
Among his editions of particular works may be named Reineke Vos, Monumenta Elnonensia and TheophilusVarious people have been known by the name Theophilus . These include; Theophilus of Antioch — c 163, and early Christian patriarch. Theophilus of Alexandria — (? 412) patriarch of Alexandria Theophilus (emperor) — ( 829 842) a Byzantine emperor of the se. Die deutsche Philologie im Grundriss (1836) was at the time of its publication a valuable contribution to philological research, and historians of German literature still attach importance to his Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes bis auf Luther (1832; 3rd ed., 1861), Unsere volkstumlichen Lieder (3rd ed., 1869) and Die deutschen Gesell-schaftslieder des 16. und 17. Jahrh. (2nd ed., 1860).
In 1868-1870 Hoffmann published in 6 vols. an autobiography, Mein Leben: Aufzeichnungen und Erinnerungen (an abbreviated ed. in 2 vols., 1894). His Gesammelte Werke were edited by H Gerstenberg in 8 vols. (1891-1894); his AusgewUhlte Werke by H Benzmann (1905, 4 vols.). See ajso Briefe von Hoffmann von Fallersleben und Moritz Haupt an Ferdinand Wolf (1874); JM Wagner, Hoffmann von Fallersleben, 1818-1868 (1869-1870), and R von Gottschall, Portraits und Studien (vol. v., 1876).
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Britannica
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