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A German poet and dramatist, son of Max Frey the publicist; born in Speyer, June 18, 1839. Designed for public life, he preferred the literary career. "Hans Sachs", a successful drama, was followed by a volume of poems, the tragedies "Corfiz Ulfeldt, the Count Chancellor of Denmark", "Marino Faliero", the light comedy "Walter's Return to his Country", and numerous other works of high literary qualities and scholarship. Strikingly successful plays also are "Francesca da Rimini", and "Agnes Bernauer, the Angel of Augsburg". He is also a noted lyric poet.
By Charles Dudley Warner
