HILLEBRAND, KARL German author, born at Giessen on Sept. 17, 1829, was a student at Heidelberg when he was caught in the revolutionary movement in Baden and had to leave Germany. He was for some months secretary to Heine in Paris, and finally settled in Florence, where he died on Oct. 19, 1884. He wrote fluently in English and French, as well as Ger man, and was a good cosmopolitan critic of European literature. The best known of his many works is Zeiten, Volker and Men schen (Berlin, 7 vols., 1874-85), being collections of essays on different subjects.
See H. Homberger, Karl Hillebrand (Berlin, 1884).