Ludwig Uhland

Ausgewählte Gedichte / von Ludwig Uhland. - Leipzig: Schmidt & Günther, [1909]. - 486 p.; 50x33 mm. [Liliput Bibliothek]

Green leather binding with gilt title on front and spine. Edges red and gilt. Printed in Leipzig by Oscar Brandstetter.

(Johann) Ludwig Uhland was born in 1787 in Tübingen (Germany). Having graduated as a doctor of laws he first worked as a lawyer in Stuttgart, then at the Württemberg ministry of justice and later on  as a member of the Frankfurt Parliament. For a short time he was honorary professor of German literature at the University of Tübingen. Because of his marriage to a wealthy lady he had the financial freedom to pursue both his political and literary ambitions.
He published studies on Germanic sagas and folklore as well as the medieval poet Walther von der Vogelweide.
As a lyric poet he belongs to the romantic school (Schwäbische Romantik) with ballads like "Roland" and  "Der Wirtin Töchterlein". Many of them used by composers like Franz Schubert.
He died on 13 November 1862 in Tübingen.

Schmidt & Günther Verlag, in Leipzig established by Heinrich Schmidt and Carl Günther in 1872. From 1907 until 1925 they have issued 123 miniature dictionaries (Liliput-Wörterbücher) and about 30 volumes in a series called Liliput-Bibliothek.

Der Wirtin Töchterlein

Es zogen drei Bursche wohl über den Rhein,
Bei einer Frau Wirtin, da kehrten sie ein.
»Frau Wirtin! hat Sie gut Bier und Wein?
Wo hat Sie Ihr schönes Töchterlein?«
»Mein Bier und Wein ist frisch und klar,
Mein Töchterlein liegt auf der Totenbahr.«
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