HACKLANDER, FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON (1816-1877), German novelist and dramatist, was born at Burt scheid near Aix-la-Chapelle on Nov. 1, 1816. A short period of service in the Prussian army resulted in his Bilder ones dem Soldatenleben im Frieden (1841). After a journey to the east, he was appointed secretary to the crown prince of Wurttemberg. In 1857 he founded, in conjunction with Edmund von Zoller, the illustrated weekly, fiber Land and Meer. In 1859 Hacklander was appointed director of royal parks and public gardens at Stuttgart ; he died on July 6, 1877.
Hacklander was a voluminous writer; the most complete edition of his works is the third, published at Stuttgart in 1876, in 6o volumes. There is a good selection in 20 volumes (1881) . See Roman meines Lebens (2 vols., 1878), and H. Morning, Erin nerungen an F. W . Hacklander (1878).