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Hebbel

[ heb-uhl ]

noun

  1. (Chris·ti·an) Frie·drich [kris, -tee-ahn , free, -d, r, i, kh], 1813–63, German lyric poet and playwright.


Hebbel

/ ˈhɛbəl /

noun

  1. HebbelChristian Friedrich18131863MGermanTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: poet Christian Friedrich (ˈkrɪstian ˈfriːdrɪç). 1813–63, German dramatist and lyric poet, whose historical works were influenced by Hegel; his major plays are Maria Magdalena (1844), Herodes und Marianne (1850), and the trilogy Die Nibelungen (1862)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Most charmingly Hebbel describes his first experience of love, when but four years old.

To comfort himself he read Hebbel's Life; and for a time he thought of going to America.

The same is recorded of Friedrich Hebbel, the most original of modern German dramatists.

Hebbel, especially, must be regarded as the most original and revolutionary German dramatist of the 19th century.

With less success Sudermann attempted in Johannes a tragedy on lines suggested by Hebbel.

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