In 1851 he published the romance of Furore, a lively picture of the period of the Thirty Years' War his other writings include Geschichte Europas, 1789-1815 (2 vols. His first work, a clever and original volume of poems, entitled Streckverse (Heidelberg, 1823), was followed in1824-1825by a popular Geschichte der Deutschen in three volumes and in 18 by Riibezahl and Narcissus, the dramatized fairy-stories upon which his reputation as a poet chiefly rests. WOLFGANG MENZEL (1798-1873), German poet, critic and literary historian, was born on the 21st of June 1798, at Waldenburg in Silesia, studied at Breslau, Jena and Bonn, and after living for some time in Aarau and Heidelberg finally settled in Stuttgart, where, from 1830 to 1838, he had a seat in the Wurttemberg Diet. McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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