GEIBEL, EMANUEL, one of the most popular of the living poets of Germany, was b. at Lubeck, on Oct. 18, 1815. After attendance at the high school of his native town, he completed his studies at the university of Bonn. In 1936, he went to Berlin, where he became acquainted with Chamisso, Gaudy, and Kugler, Two years after wards he obtained a tutorship in the family of the Russian ambassador at Athens, where he still prosecuted his studies. On his return to Lubeck in 1840, lie worked up the material he had collected in Greece, and became, in addition, a diligent student of Italian and Spanish literature. Soon after the publication of his first poems, a pension o.f 300 dialers a year was bestowed upon him by the king of Prussia. Geibel now resided alternately at St. Goar with Freiligrath, at Stuttgart, Hanover, Berlin, and Lubeck; till, in 1852, be was appointed professor of :.esthetics in the university of Munich by the king of Bavaria. He remained in this post till 1868, when lie retired to Ltbeck. Along with Curtius, he published his Classtsehe Studien (1840), containing trans
lations from the Greek poets. These were followed in the same year by his Galichte (82d edit. 1877), the beauty and religious tone of which made them at once great favor ites with the Germans. The results of his Spanish studies were the Spaniselten Volkslieder and Romanzen (Berlin, 1943), which were followed by the Srattische Liederbueh (Berlin, 1852), published in conjunction with Paul Heyse. In 1857 appeared his tragedy of Brunel/tide, and in 1864 Gedichte and Gedenkbliitter. In 1868 he published another tra gedy called Sophonisbe. His are distinguished by fervor and truth of feeling, richness of fancy, and a certain pensive melancholy, and have procured him a popular ity—especially among cultivated women—such as no poet o termany has enjoyed since the days of Uhland,