HERWEGH, her'vek, Georg, German po litical and lyrical poet: b. Stuttgart, 31 May 1817; d. Lichtenthal bei Baden-Baden, 7 April 1875. He studied theology at Tubingen, be came editor of A. Lewald's periodical Europa at Stuttgart; became embroiled with a military officer at Stuttgart and was obliged to flee to Switzerland, and settled there at Emanishofen in the canton of Thurgau. He there edited jointly with Wirth a periodical called Die Yolks hale and published a volume of political lyrics, 'Gedichte eines Lebendigen' ('Poems of a Liv ing Man') • the title is in imitation of Prince Piicklees (Briefe eines Verstorbenen' ((Letters of One Deceased') in 1841 (at Zurich; 10th ed., Stuttgart 1877). These poems showed consid erable revolutionary spirit, yet on his journeys in Prussia (1842), he was favorably received, even by King Frederick William IV, who is said to have remarked "I respect opponents who have principles" and summoned him to an audience. From the city of Konigsberg he ad dressed a strongly provocatory letter to the king, resulting in his banishment from Prussia; Zurich also, to which he wished to return, would not receive him. But the king of Wurt temberg pardoned him for desertion from mili tary service. In the canton of Basle, of which
he now became a citizen, he married Emma Siegmund, .daughter of a Jewish merchant at Berlin. At Pans, where he lived for a number of years, he wrote the poems in the second volume of 'Gedichte eines Lebendigen> (Zurich 1844) and translated Lamartine's works into German (Stuttgart, 12 vols., 1843-44). He en gaged in active revolutionary propaganda at Paris, and in April 1848 invaded Baden at the head of a Franco-German Workers' Legion, accompanied by his wife and A. von Bornstedt. His force was defeated at Dossenbach 27 April by the Wurttemberg troops, and, he fled to Switzerland, aided by his courageous wife. He produced little in the remaining years of his life, except translations of several Shakesperean plays. His works were issued in a complete edition in German with biography and intro duction by Hermann Tardel (3 vols., Berlin 1909) ; 'Neue Gedichte) ((posthumous poems, Ziinich 1877) • Lassalle's, an Herwegh' (Zürich 1896). Consult Walzel, 0., Worn Geistesleben des 18. and 19. Jahrhunderts' (Leip zig 1911).