Excerpt from Problematic Characters: A Novel Fuel biographical notices of Spielhagen in German periodi cals, ' we gather that he was born in Magdeburg, in 1829, and is the son of a Prussian functionary of considerable rank (regier ungsrath). His youth was passed in the romantic old town of Stralsund, to which his father was removed in 1835, and the scenery of that neighborhood, and of the near lying island Rt'igen, appears to have become so deeply impressed on the Opening mind of the boy, that he subsequently painted it ...
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Excerpt from Problematic Characters: A Novel Fuel biographical notices of Spielhagen in German periodi cals, ' we gather that he was born in Magdeburg, in 1829, and is the son of a Prussian functionary of considerable rank (regier ungsrath). His youth was passed in the romantic old town of Stralsund, to which his father was removed in 1835, and the scenery of that neighborhood, and of the near lying island Rt'igen, appears to have become so deeply impressed on the Opening mind of the boy, that he subsequently painted it with enthusiasm in several of his romances. His course of gymnasial education in Stralsund having been completed in 1847, he went in that year to the University of Berlin, intending to study medicine. But his poetical nature soon caused him to give up all thoughts of the medical profession, and the following year he removed to Bonn to smdy philology. He remained at Bonn till 1850, when he return ed to Berlin, continuing his studies partly at that university and partly at that of Greifswald. Whilst at th'ese universities be ap pears to have studied a variety of subjects, but discursively rather than with reference to any regular profession - for which both his poetical vein and his thirst for observations of actual life seem to have disqualified him. After serving his allotted time in the Prussian army, and occupying the post of tutor in the family of a Pomeranian nobleman, he went to Leipzig, in 1854, to devote himself to general literature, and he afterwards became a teacher (pn'vat Docent) of modern literature and aesthetics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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