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lie becaine one of the leaders of the party known as ¦¦¦ " Young _s "—a school half political and half literarywhich
en-Germany , deavoured to revive the quaintness and chivalry of the middle ages * _,., and claimed a high and important position for the writers of lyrical
poetry . M . _Mundt also shared with Heinrich Heine an enthusiasm for French manners and the literature of France , whilst
both these young and ardent innovators found a bitter and powerful opponent in the determined Wolfgang Menzel . Menzel was at this
time a writer and critic of great ability . He was the son of a celebrated hysician in Silesia . Losing his father soon after his
birth , he came p to Breslau with his widowed mother , and first served his country as a volunteer in 1815 * Returning afterwards
to his studies at Heidelberg , he became one of the most earnest defenders of the principles of constitutional government . He next
became the leader of a critical review in which he fulminated his anathemas against the philosophers and poets of Germany ,
attacking the fervent disciples of Goethe , and even attempting to hurl the idol itself from its throne . Sparing no one in his virulent
attacks , and particularly directing his missiles against the French . Influence which was gaining ascendancy around him , Menzel
hastened to denounce Theodore Mundt as the leader of a school " perverted hy French irreligion , and vowed to the destruction of every
social and political institution . " Alarmed "by the storm of public indignation which was excited by these exaggerated denunciations ,
and anxious to avoid the persecutions to which many otherwriters were subjectedM . Mundt left his native country in 1835 *
, and occupied himself for , some years in travelling from place to place . In 1839 he returned to Berlin and married Clara , (
otherwise known as Louise Miihlbach , ) who was then twenty-five years of age . After the revolution of 1848 Theodore Mundt became
Professor of History and Literature at , the University of Breslau ; but in 1850 he returned to Berlin , and has since occupied
lishe the post d a of volume librarian of ' ¦¦ ' to Sketches the Universit , Novels y , . and In Literary 1837 , M . Studies Mundt ; pub " in
-1844 , a History of the Progress of Society ; " in 1845 , an essay on " . _^ Esthetics _- " in 1851 , an account of " Machiavelli , " and of
, " Luther ' s Political Writings . " * Wolfgang Menzel must not be confounded with . Charles Adolphus
Menzel , an historian and archseologist of some renown , who was also born in Silesiaand who occupied several professorial chairs , and died
in 1855 . The writings , of Wolfgang Menzel have not the dry elaboration of the earlier historian , but many of Ms critical disquisitions are
of too satirical a character to be easily comprehended by the English ; reader . He is also known as a poet and writer of romances , and .
in 1851 he first published the " Songs of Many Nations , " and an der G " esellschaft Charactere " , _JSTovellen Berlin 1844 , Sldzzen . ! " Aesthetik , & c . " Weimar . " 1845 , . . 183 " 7 _Machiavelli : 2 vols . " Geschichte . " Leipzig ;
1851 . " Lutliers , Schriften , . " Berlin , 1844 *
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 128, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/56/
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