Ludwig Scharf was a German

Germans

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 lyricist and translator.

Scharf grew up and went to school in Blieskastel

Blieskastel

Blieskastel is a municipality in the Saarpfalz district, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated on the river Blies, approximately 8 km west of Zweibrücken, and 20 km east of Saarbrücken.-International relations:...

, later in Zweibrücken

Zweibrücken

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. After his Abitur

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 in 1884, he went to Munich

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 to study natural sciences, philology

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 and law

Law

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, but never graduated. However, he became one of the most famous figures of Munich and German language modern literature, publishing his poems in magazines such as Jugend

Jugend (magazine)

Jugend was a German art magazine that was created in the late 19th century. It featured many famous Art Nouveau artists and is the source of the term "Jugendstil" , the German version of Art Nouveau. The magazine was founded by writer Georg Hirth. It was published from 1896 to 1940...

, Pan

Pan (magazine)

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, and Simplicissimus

Simplicissimus

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.

Writing in the style of naturalism

Naturalism (literature)

Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character...

, his most famous collection of poems is "Lieder eines Menschen", published in 1892.

In the 1910s

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, he moved to Patosfa Castle near Kaposvár, in Somogy County, Southwest Hungary, owned by his wife, painter and writer Ella Somsich. He died there on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War, in the summer of 1939.

External links

• Biography (in German)