Hermann Lingg (22 January 1820 – 18 June 1905) was a German poet who also wrote plays and short stories. His cousin, Maximilian von Lingg, was Bishop of Augsburg

Bishop of Augsburg

The Bishop of Augsburg is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Augsburg in the Ecclesiastical province of München und Freising.The diocese covers an area of 13,250 km².The current bishop is Konrad Zdarsa who was appointed in 2010....

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He was born in Lindau

Lindau

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. Lingg studied medicine at the universities of Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, Freiburg

Freiburg

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, Berlin

Berlin

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, and Prague

Prague

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, and became a doctor in the Bavarian Army

Bavarian army

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. From 1839, he was a member of the Corps Suevia München. His battalion was used to quell revolutionary uprisings in Baden

Baden

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; forced to act against his convictions, he fell into severe depression, entered a mental hospital in 1851 and soon submitted his resignation. From that point on, he lived in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 and devoted himself to historical and poetic studies, financially supported by King Maximilian II

Maximilian II of Bavaria

Maximilian II of Bavaria was king of Bavaria from 1848 until 1864. He was son of Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.-Crown Prince:...

. His marriage to a forester's daughter in 1854 improved his mental stability, and a pension (with occasional financial support from friends, such as Max von Pettenkofer and Justus von Liebig

Justus von Liebig

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, and the German Schiller Foundation) improved their living standards.

Lingg first gained attention with a collection of poems introduced by Emanuel Geibel

Emanuel Geibel

Emanuel von Geibel , German poet and playwright, was born at Lübeck, the son of a pastor in the city.He was originally intended for his father's profession and studied at Bonn and Berlin, but his real interests lay not in theology but in classical and romance philology. In 1838 he accepted a...

 (Stuttgart 1853). His most famous work is Die Völkerwanderung ("The Great Migration", Stuttgart, 1866-68, 3 vols). He was ennobled in 1890.

His manuscripts are now located in the Bavarian State Library

Bavarian State Library

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. There are streets named after him in both Munich and Lindau

Lindau

Lindau is a Bavarian town and an island on the eastern side of Lake Constance, the Bodensee. It is the capital of the Landkreis or rural district of Lindau. The historic city of Lindau is located on an island which is connected with the mainland by bridge and railway.- History :The name Lindau was...

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Works

• Catilina, 1864
• Die Walküren, 1865
• Vaterländische Balladen und Gesänge, 1868
• Liebesblüten aus Deutschlands Dichterhain, lyrical collection, 1869
• Gedichte, 3rd book, 1870
• Zeitgedichte, 1870
• Wanderungen durch die internationale Kunstausstellung in München, 1870
• Violante, tragedy, 1871
• Dunkle Gewalten, epic poetry, 1872
• Die Besiegung der Cholera, play, 1873
• Der Doge Candiano, 1873
• Berthold Schwarz, 1874
• Die Sizilianische Vesper, 1876
• Macalda, tragedy, 1877
• Schlusssteine, poems, 1878
• Byzantinische Novellen, stories, 1881
• Von Wald und See, stories, 1883
• Clytia. Eine Szene aus Pompeji, 1883
• Skaldenklänge, collection of ballads by contemporary poets (with Gräfin Ballestrem), 1883
• Högnis letzte Heerfahrt. Nordische Szene, 1884
• Lyrisches, poems, 1885
• Die Bregenzer Klause, 1887
• Meine Lebensreise, autobiography, 1899

External links

• Transkriptionen bei ngiyaw eBooks - sowie Digitalisate bei ngiyaw Sources
• "Über moderne Lyrik" von Hermann Lingg im Projekt "Lyriktheorie"
• Paul Heyse: Autobiographisches, Jugenderinnerungen und Bekenntnisse, 5. König Max und das alte München, Das Krokodil