Ludwig Uhland

Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862) was a German poet, philologist, literary historian, lawyer and politician.

Not to be confused with Ludwig Joseph Uhland.

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Longfellow translated some of his pieces into English. Alexander Platt translated his Poems (Leipzig, 1848), W. W. Skeat his Songs and Ballads (London, 1864), and W. C. Sandars his Poems (1869).

One of his best-known poems is "", which is an integral part of military funerals.

Ich hatt' einen Kameraden

located south of Austin, Texas, is named in his honor.

A town

German composer (1787-1863) used Uland’s text in her songs “Abschied” and “Einkehr.”^[1]

Wilhelmine Schwertzell

Lieder composer 1849-1925) also set Uhland’s text to music.^[2]

Pauline Volkstein

, ed. (1911). "Uhland, Johann Ludwig" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Chisholm, Hugh

; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Uhland, Johann" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

Gilman, D. C.

Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). . The American Cyclopædia.

"Uhland, Johann Ludwig"

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