HAUFF, howf, Wilhelm, German historical and satirical novelist and poet: b. Stuttgart, Nov. 1802; d. Stuttgart, 18 Nov. 1827. He be gan attending the monastery school at Blau beuren in 1818, later (1820) the seminary at Tubingen, where he pursued studies in theology and philosophy, as he was preparing for the ministry. From 1824 to 1826 he was a tutor in the home of General Baron von Hugel at Stuttgart, traveled in France and Holland In 1826 and became editor of the Stuttgart Mar genblatt in 1827, dying the same year. In spite of the small period afforded by his abort life for literary work, he was already a well known writer in his own lifetime, for his activ ities in the Hugel household seem to have al lowed him much leisure, all of which he de voted to literature. His rising prosperity had also led him to enter into what promised to be a very happy marriage, which he was destined, however, to enjoy but eight months. His dis position was that of childish good cheer, har monious and content, and this is the impres sion also of his stories and style: easy, flowing, not profound, clear as to action, difficult to understand only when his great carelessness in the construction of sentences gets the upper hand. He produced one long historical novel, 'Lichtenstein,' in 1826, which is a distinct appli cation to the Reformation period and to Wiirt temberg, of Sir Walter Scott's methods as used with the various periods of Scottish history and the Scottish country-side. His short stories include (Der Mann in Mend' (satirical romance), (Die Bettlerin vom Pont des Arts,' (hid Suss,' Bild des Kaisers,' 'Die letz ten Ritter von Marienburg,> Sfingerin,' and a number of fairy-talc accounts, forming a collection included in the framework of Karawane' ((Kalif Storch,) (Das Gespen sterschiff'), and others ((Zwerg 'Vase,' steinerne Herz)). Many of these stories deal
very satisfactorily with subjects taken from modern life and may be considered in this con nection as continuing the similar activity of Tieck (q.v.). Mann in Mond' is now considered to be a satiric romance, in that it is supposed to pursue the purpose of ridiculing the enervated and morally offensive narrations of one of Hauff's contemporaries, H. Clauren, by producing an imitation of the language, the use of epithets and the general cloying sweet ness of the latter's literary method. Hauff also produced a number of imaginative satiri cal sketches, aus den Memoiren des Satan' ; 'Fantasien im Bremer and lyrical poems of real power, Morgenrot, leuchtest mir zum friihen 'Steh' ich in finstrer Mitternacht.> His works were issued in various editions: Schriften,> 36 vols. (Stuttgart 1830-31) ; 10 vols. (Stuttgart 1837, 21st ed., 1891); ed. by Adolf Stern (Berlin 1878) ; latest collected edi tion by Bong (Berlin 1908, 6 vols. in 1). See LICHTENSTEIN.
Consult biographies by G. Schwab (Stutt gart 1830) and H. Fischer (Stuttgart 1886); Koch, G., Einfluss auf Hauff) (Eu phorion, IV, p. 804) ; Schuster, Max, geschichtliche Kern von Hauffs Lichtenstein' (Stuttgart 1904) ; Drescher, M., 'Die Quellen zu Hauffs Lichtenstein' (Leipzig 1905); Thompson, Garrett W., Hauff's Spe cific Relation to Walter Scott) (Modern Lan guage Publications, Cambridge, Mass., 1911).
JAcon WITTMER HARTMANN, Assistant Professor of the German Language and Literature, The College of the City of New York.