HARTMANN, MORITZ (1821-1872), German poet and patriot, of Jewish origin, was born at Duschnik, Bohemia, on Oct. i 5, 1821. For two volumes of patriotic poems, Kelch and Schwert (1845) and Neuere Gedichte (1846), published at Leipzig, he was imprisoned by the Austrian authorities, but was released at the revolution in March 1848, and sat in the Frankfurt parliament. He took part in the revolution in Vienna, and after its suppression escaped to London and Paris. In 1849 he published Reimchronik des P f a ff en Mauritius, a satirical political poem in the style of Heine. During the Crimean War (1854-56) Hartmann was cor respondent of the Kolnische Zeitung, settled in 186o in Geneva as a teacher of German literature and history, became in 1865 editor of the Freya in Stuttgart and in 1868 a member of the staff of the Neue Freie Presse in Vienna. He died at Oberdobling near Vienna on May 13, 1872.
Among Hartmann's works may be especially mentioned Der Krieg um den Wald (185o), a novel, the scene of which is laid in Bohemia; Erzahlungen eines Unsteten (i858); and Die Letzten Tage eines Konigs (1867) ; an idyll, Adam and Eva (1851), and a collection of poetical tales, Schatten (1851) .
See O. Wittner, Moritz Hartmann's Leben and Werke (2 vols., 1907).