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Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow

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Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow , 1811–78, German writer. He entered journalism in 1831 and became a leader of the antiromantic and nationally conscious literary movement known as Young Germany. For his Wally die Zweiflerin [Wally the doubter] (1835), an attack on marriage and religious orthodoxy, he was briefly jailed. Gutzkow's controversial writings furthered German social and political liberalism, and his novel Die Ritter vom Geiste [knights of the spirit] (9 vol., 1850–52) is important in the development of the modern German social novel. Among his plays is Uriel Acosta (1847, tr. 1860), which, although derivative, is perhaps his best work.

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Gutzkow, Karl Ferdinand (1811–78), German writer, a prominent member of the ‘Young Germany’ movement, mainly remembered as the author of the great Jewish play Uriel Acosta, a moving and terrible picture of the struggle for intellectual freedom, written in 1847, which has become a recognized classic of world drama and is in the repertory of almost all Jewish theatres. It was first seen in England in 1905 and has been played, both in the original and in translation, in most European countries and in America.

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