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A German poet; born at Neugrape in Pomerania, Sept. 2, 1851. Among his dramatic compositions are: "Savonarola" (1878); "Magda" (1879); "The Patrician Dame" (1881); "Luigia Sanfelice" (1882); "Father Modestus" (1883); "The Czar's Moor" (1883), after a fragment by Pushkin; "Woe to the Besieged" (1889); "Eve" (1889); "Betwixt Two Hearts" (1893); "At Sedan" (1895). In narrative verse he wrote: "A Hill Asylum" (1882); "Roman Village Tales" (1884); "Messalina" (1881). Among his novels are: "Life Tragedy of an Actress" (1883); "The New Romans" (1885); "Children of the South" (1888); "Villa Falconieri" (1895); "Roman Fever" (1902); "The People of Valdare". He excels in description of Italian lowly life.