STINDE, stin'd'e, Julius, German humor ist: b. Kirch-Niichel, in the eastern part of the province of Holstein, 28 Aug. 1841; d. Olsberg (bei Kassel), Westphalia, 7 Aug. 1905. He attended the gymnasium at Eutin, near his native village, became an apothecary in 1858, and then attended the universities of Kid, Giessen and Jena to study chemistry. For several years he served (1863-66) as a chemist attached to factories, but made simultaneous attempts to enter journalism. From 1864 to 1868 he was editor of the Hamburger Gewerbe blatt, from 1865 to 1875 of the Reform. He resided in Berlin after 1876. His stories of Berlin life depict the commercial lower middle class of the large cities, especially in communi ties that are expanding successfully. His most successful types are the members of the Buch holz family, who, in their life at home, and in their travels in Italy and elsewhere, retain constantly the coarse but healthy humor that is characteristic of their class, with that certain Berlin or metropolitan superciliousness which is as unmistakable as it is unpleasant. So suc
cessful was Stinde's exploitation of their foi bles, that he settled down to a sort of factory production, turning out nothing but repetitions of the same types, which never failed to yield the expected financial return. Among his best known stories are (Buchholzens in Italien' (1883; 54th ed., 1905) ; (Die Familie Buchholz' (3 vols. 1886; 87th ed. 1905) ;