GUSTAV PFIZER
\ɡˈʌstav fˈa͡ɪzə], \ɡˈʌstav fˈaɪzə], \ɡ_ˈʌ_s_t_a_v f_ˈaɪ_z_ə]\
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A German poet; born at Stuttgart, July 29, 1807; died there, July 19, 1890. His principal works are: "Poems" (1831; a second series 1835); "Life of Martin Luther" (1836); "Poems Epical and EpicoLyrical" (1840); the poem "The Italian and the German: AEneas Silvius Piccolomini and Gregor von Heimburg" (1844); "History of Alexander the Great" (1847); "History of the Greeks".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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