Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow was a German writer. He was born in 1811 at Berlin and died in 1878. After studying theology he took to journalism and politics, and became the leading spirit of a small body of reformers known as 'Young Germany.' In 1835 his novel Wally die Zweiflerin appeared. It was at once confiscated by the government as hostile to religion and society, and the author was imprisoned for three months. In spite of government prohibition Karl Gutzkow managed to publish a number of works from Hamburg, where he had settled. Amongst these are: Blasedow und seine Sohne (1838), a satire, and Borne's Leben (1840). He was active, also, in dramatic literature, his tragedies Richard Savage (1840), Patkul (1841), and Uriel Acosta (1847), and his comedies Zopf und Schwert (1844), and Das Urbild des Tartufe (1847), having been very popular. In 1842 he left Hamburg, and after a visit to Paris, described in Briefe aus Paris, settled at Frankfurt until 1847, when he became director of the Dresden theatre. Here he devoted himself to novel-writing, producing the romances Die Ritter vom Geist (1850), Der Zauberer von Rom (1858), and Hohenschwangau (1868). Research Karl Gutzkow
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