journalist literary critic writer poet
He was born at Züllichau;Brandenburg, studied at Berlin. And, devoting himself to journalism, lived and wrote in Leipzig, Munich, Augsburg, and Frankfort, finally settling in Leipzig (1853) as editor of the Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung.
He wrote the critical essay, Deutschlands Jüngste Kulturund Litteraturepoche (1839). Several plays, est g., Das Täubchen von Amsterdam. Humorous novels, including Justus und Chrysostomus, Gebrüder Pech (1840), Johannes Mackel (1841), and Fritz Beutel (1855), after the fashion of Baron Munchausen.
A biography of Ernst Schulze (Leipzig, 1855).
Schillers und Kärners Freundschaftsbund (1859). Gedichte (1857); Balladenchronik (1862).
