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A German poet and story-teller; born at Remscheid, May 3, 1839. A brief sojourn in Spain (1864) filled him with a permanent enthusiasm for the land and literature which has inspired nearly all his life-work. He translated Juan Diana's comedy "Receipt against Mothers-in-Law"; and compiled a series of volumes which are less translations than transcriptions in the spirit of the originals,- "A Wreath of Spanish Romances"; "Hesperian Blooms"; "The Book of my Spanish Friends"; "Voices of Christmas". He also wrote many works on the history of Spanish literature; and in Spanish, "Passion-Books of a German-Spaniard", a description of the Oberammergau Passion-Play; and "Walhalla and the Glories of Germany". A volume of war songs dedicated "To the German Heroes of 1870" is also his.