STORM, storm', Theodore, German novel ist, poet and short story writer: b. Husum, a seaport and manufacturing town of Schleswig, on the coast of the North Sea, 14 Sept. 1817; d. Hhdemarschen, 4 July 1888. He studied law at Kid and Berlin and practised his profession in his native town. On account of his strong Ger man sympathies in the Schleswig-Holstein ques tion he was forced to leave the country and was a political exile for 10 years (1854-64). When the disputed, territory passed under the do minion of Prussia in the latter year he was permitted to return and was rewarded with several judicial positions under the Prussian government for his faithfulness to the German cause, and he was finally retired on a govern ment pension in 1820. His most popular story is 'Immensee" but it is only one of half a hundred which were received with satisfac tion by the German reading public. In this
story he recalls, in a strangely vivid, poetical, realistic, yet dreamy, fanciful manner, the scenes of his early life. Almost all his stories and poems are touched with the same quiet sad ness as that which characterizes 'Immensee" Thid loneliness and melancholy surround most of the people about whom he writes. Yet through this strange loneliness there is ever in evidence an engaging warmness of heart and tender sentiment expressed in sweet and grace ful language. Everywhere we feel, in the stories, novels and poems of Theodore Storm, that he expresses much more by suggestion than he actually says; and this characteristic forms one of the chief charms of his works. Storm may be called the prose Longfellow of Ger many. See Im M EN SEE.