German author; born in Stuttgart on the 19th of June 1792; studied theology and philosophy at Tübingen. After holding the professorship of ancient literature at the Stuttgart gymnasium, he was in 1837 appointed pastor at Gomaringen, and in 1840 of St. Leonhard Church in Stuttgart, where he remained until his death. He was one of the best known of the Swabian poets, and considered the most elegant of the school of writers founded by Uhland. His Gedichte appeared in 1828–29. Among his prose writings are Schillers Leben (1840); Sagen des Klassischen Alterthumes (1838–40); Deutsche Volksbücher (1843). He died on the 4th of November 1850.
