HARTMANN, liourrz, 1821-72; a German poet, b. Bohemia, of Jewish parents. He studied at Prague and Vienna, and, after a tour in Italy, Switzerland and south Germany, became a teacher in Vienna. He left Austria, to publish without danger a volume of poems entitled Keleh and Sehwert, in which he gave expression to radical sentiments as. regards both church and state. After residing for some years in Belgium and France, he came to Leipsic, where in 1847 he published Teuere Gediehte. Return ing to Austria he suffered a short imprisonment, from which he was freed by the revo lution of March, 1848. In the same year he was chosen to represent the district of Leh meritz in the Frankfort parliament, where he took his seat on the extreme left. In Oct. he accompanied Plum and FrObel to Vienna, but lie made his escape before the execu tion of Blum, and took part in the deliberations of the "Rump Parliament" at Stutt gala. In 1849 he published the Reimehronkik des 1Yoffen Naurizius, a satirical political poem in the style of the old chronicles. After the dissolution of the rump parliament
he went to Switzerland, then to England and Ireland, and in 1850 to Paris, where, beside other literary engagements, he held that of correspondent to the Kolnische Zeitung. On the outbreak of the Russian war, he became correspondent of the same paper in the Crimea, where he remained 18 months. After several years' residence at Paris he settled, in 1S60 at Ghent, where he delivered of lectures On .Gerinan. literature and tory in some of the principal academies. In 1S63 he removed to Stuttgart to edit the Freya, and in 1868 he undertook editorship at Vienna of the Sew Frew Press& Hart mann published several volumes of poems in addition to those mentioned, and besides his spirited accounts of his travels and adventures he is the author of various novels of more than average merit.