Friedrich Hebbel (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Christian Friedrich Hebbel (HEHB-uhl) was born in Schleswig-Holstein to a poor mason who was hostile to his young son’s ambitions. “Poverty,” Hebbel wrote of him years later in his interesting diary, “had taken the place of his soul.” When Hebbel was fourteen, his father died, and the future dramatist was recommended by a teacher to a local magistrate, whom he served as secretary for eight years. During this time, he read widely, wrote verse and drama influenced by Johann Ludwig Uhland and Friedrich Schiller, and participated in amateur theatricals.
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