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Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876)
Freiligrath, Ferdinand (frī’lig-rät). A notable German poet; born in Detmold, June 17, 1810; died in Cannstatt, March 18, 1876. His first volume of ‘Poems’ (1838), full of Oriental imagery, won universal favor—and a royal pension, which he renounced as discrediting his liberalism, publishing a ‘Confession of Faith’ in verse (1844). Banished as a sower of sedition, he took refuge in London till the revolution of 1848. His poems ‘The Dead to the Living’ and ‘Political and Social Poems’ sent him repeatedly to exile in England. He was an admirable translator, notably from Scott, Shakespeare, and Longfellow. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).