FOLLEN, AUGUST (or, as he afterwards called himself, ADOLF) LUDWIG German poet, was born at Giessen on Jan. 21, 1794, the son of a district judge. He studied at Giessen and Heidelberg, and after leaving the university edited the Elberfeld Allgemeine Zeitung. Suspected of being connected with radical plots, he was imprisoned for two years in Berlin. On his release in 1821 he went to Switzerland, where he lived till his death at Berne on Dec. 26, 1855. Besides a number of minor poems he wrote Har f engriisse aus Deutschland and der Schweiz (1823) and Malegys send Vivian (1829), a knightly romance after the fashion of the romantic school. The series of sonnets entitled An die gottlosen Nichtswiiteriche, aimed at the liberal philosopher Arnold Ruge, started a violent literary quarrel. Follen's best-known work is a collection of German poetry entitled Bildersaal deutscher Dichtung (1827).