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Theodor Storm
Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm, commonly known as Theodor Storm, was a German-Frisian writer and poet. He is considered to be one of the most important figures of German realism.
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culture · German writer and poet (1817–1888) · poet · novelist · lawyer · writer · jurist · librettist · also Theodor Storm, Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm, Theodore Woldsen Storm, Storm
Born 14 September 1817 · Died 4 July 1888 · Q26993
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1888· 1 entry
Died 1888-07-04.
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1882· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1882).
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1880· 1 entry
Storm moved to Hademarschen, where he spent the last years of his life writing, and died of cancer at the age of 70
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1865· 1 entry
After Schleswig had come under Prussian rule and became a district magistrate ("Landvogt")
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1864· 1 entry
Where he had been invited by his friend, the author and painter Ludwig Pietsch, he made the acquaintance of the great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev
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1853· 1 entry
Storm moved to Potsdam, moving on to Heiligenstadt in Thuringia in 1856
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1852· 1 entry
Worked as a lawyer in his home town of Husum
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1838· 2 entries
Studied at Kiel University (1837–1838).
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Studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1838).
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1835· 1 entry
Studied at Hermann Tast School (1826–1835).
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1817· 1 entry
Born 1817-09-14.
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