German poet, born in Stuttgart, on the 24th of September 1835; studied philology at the University of Tübingen; served in the army of Würtemberg, and then traveled in France and England. He became professor of German in the technical school at Munich in 1869. He published epics and poems of the middle ages, Lancelot and Ginevra (1860); Marie de France (1862); Tristan et Isolde (1877); A Legend of the Convent Bruder Rausch (1882); and Lager in Alsace (1872).
