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Herwegh, Georg, born on May 31, 1817, the son of impoverished restaurant keepers in Stuttgart, is one of the outstanding poets of the German pre-March movement and the revolution of 1848-49. His first volume of poems, "Poems of a Living Creature" published in 1841, made him famous throughout Germany. In verses of rousing and emotional language, he had succeeded in expressing the political demands of the anti-feudal opposition. In this way the poet contributed substantially to the ideological preparations for the revolution. Herwegh was in Paris in February 1848 in when the revolutionary storm broke and, later in Germany in March,as storm echoed. In Paris, he wrote "To the French People" in which he expressed his enthusiasm for the republic. At a formal meeting of some seven thousand German residents in Paris at the beginning of March, the document was handed over to the represtatives of the French provisional government. The Parisian February revolution stimulated the founding of the G

Herwegh, Georg Table of Contributors Table of Contents Return to Encyclopedia Home Page Herwegh, Georg Herwegh, Georg, born on May 31, 1817, the son of impoverished restaurant keepers in Stuttgart, is one of the outstanding poets of the German pre-March movement and the revolution of 1848-49. His first volume of poems, "Poems of a Living Creature" published in 1841, made him famous throughout Germany. In verses of rousing and emotional language, he had succeeded in expressing the political demands of the anti-feudal opposition. In this way the poet contributed substantially to the ideological

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