German Literature Companion:

Franz Christoph Horn

Horn, Franz Christoph (Brunswick, 1781-1837, Brunswick), a schoolmaster in Berlin and Bremen, and finally (1810) a private tutor in Berlin, is the author of numerous light novels, including Guiskardo der Dichter (1801), Viktors Wallfahrten (1802), Henrico (1804-5), Der Traum der Liebe (1806), Otto (1810), and Bertha (1819). He also wrote poems (Gedichte, 1820) and stories (Leben und Liebe, 1817; Novellen, 1819-20), and was a popular writer on the history of literature (Geschichte und Kritik der deutschen Poesie und Beredsamkeit, 1805; Die schöne Literatur Deutschlands während des 18ten Jahrhunderts, 1812-13; Die Poesie und Beredsamkeit der Deutschen von Luthers Zeit bis zur Gegenwart, 1822-9). Horn is ridiculed by Heine in Atta Troll (Kaput XVIII).

 
 
 

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