Joseph Victor von Scheffel [SEP] occupation
Joseph Victor von Scheffel
Joseph Victor von Scheffel (16 February 1826 – 9 April 1886) was a German poet and novelist.
Biography.
He was born at Karlsruhe. His father, a retired major in the Baden army, was a civil engineer and member of the commission for regulating the course of the Rhine; his mother, "née" Josephine Krederer, the daughter of a prosperous tradesman at Oberndorf am Neckar, was a woman of great intellectual powers and of a romantic disposition. Young Scheffel was educated
- Charles Godfrey Leland, Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, Ebook-Nr. 35848 on gutenberg.org
References.
- This article in turn cites:
- A. Ruhemann: "Joseph Victor von Scheffel" (1887)
- G. Zernin: "Erinnerungen an Joseph Victor von Scheffel" (1887)
- J. Proelß: "Scheffels Leben und Dichten" (1887)
- L. von Kobell: "Scheffel und seine Frau" (1901)
- E. Boerschel: "J.