Who is Johann Ludwig Uhland

Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862) was a German poet, philologist and literary historian.

Biography

He was born in Tübingen, Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest in medieval literature, especially old German and French poetry. Having graduated as a doctor of laws in 1810, he went to Paris for eight months to continue his studies of poetry; and from 1812 to 1814 he worked as a lawyer in Stuttgart, in the bureau of the minister of justice.

Poetry

He began his career as a poet in 1807 and 1808 by contributing ballads and lyrics to Seckendorff's Musenalmanach; and in 1812 and 1813 he wrote poems for Kerner's Poetischer Almanach and Deutscher Dichterwald. In 1815 he co...
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Johann Ludwig Uhland Poems

• The Luck Of Edenhall
  Of Edenhall, the youthful Lord
  Bids sound the festal trumpet's call;
  He rises at the banquet board,
  And cries, 'mid the drunken revellers all, ...
• The Shepherd's Sabbath Song
  Schäfers Sonntagslied
  
  Ich bin so hold den sanften Tagen,
  Das ist der Tag des Herrn! ...
• The Black Knight
  'T was Pentecost, the Feast of Gladness,
  When woods and fields put off all sadness.
  Thus began the King and spake:
  'So from the halls ...
• Three Students
  Three students once tarried over the Rhine,
  And into Frau Wirthin's turned to dine.
  
  'Say, hostess, have you good beer and wine?...
• Ich Hatt' Einen Kameraden (i Had A Comrade)
  Ich hatt' einen Kameraden,
  Einen bessern findst du nit.
  Die Trommel schlug zum Streite,
  Er ging an meiner Seite ...

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Comments about Johann Ludwig Uhland

• Pentatonemusic: “the world grows fairer each day; we cannot know what is still to come; the flowering knows no end. the deepest, most distant valley is in flower. now, poor heart, forget your torment. now all must change.” - johann ludwig uhland
• Viam_sapientiae: ''die vätergruft'' (the father's crypt), c. 1865. inspired by the poem of the same name, written by ludwig uhland in 1805. by georg osterwald (1803–1884), copy after the original painting by caspar johann nepomuk scheuren (1810-1887) from 1831 (now lost). private collection.
• Adamcurtisbot: events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. salafi movement, the states, gomphrena globosa, salix caprea, johann ludwig uhland.

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