Author · Germany
Gustav Freytag
Died in 1895
Gustav Freytag was born in 1816 in Kreuzburg, in Silesia, the son of a doctor who became burgomaster. He studied philology at Breslau and Berlin, taught at Breslau as a privatdozent from 1839 to 1847 and wrote for the theatre. From 1848 he ran in Leipzig, with Julian Schmidt, the weekly Die Grenzboten, the main organ of German liberalism, and defended unity under Prussian leadership. A friend of Duke Ernst of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, he followed the war of 1870 at the headquarters of the Crown Prince of Prussia. He died in 1895 in Wiesbaden.
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