OTTO LUDWIG
\ˈɒtə͡ʊ lˈʌdwɪɡ], \ˈɒtəʊ lˈʌdwɪɡ], \ˈɒ_t_əʊ l_ˈʌ_d_w_ɪ_ɡ]\
Sort: Oldest first
-
An eminent German dramatist and story-writer; born at Eisfeld, Fed. 11, 1813; died at Dresden, Feb. 25, 1865. His first ambition was for music; and, at first self-taught, a melodrama he wrote gained him the means of becoming a pupil of Mendelssohn at Leipsic. But he soon abandoned this, and went into retirement to write novels and dramas; many of the latter he never published, but in 1850 he brought out his tragedy "The Hereditary Forester", very faulty in construction though with manifold great excellences. He essayed a higher flight in the tragedy "The Maccabees" (1855), but again failed in construction. He turned now to story-telling, and began a series of tales of Thuringian life. To this series belongs "Between Heaven and Earth" (1857), his masterpiece.
By Charles Dudley Warner
Word of the day
basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).