Edmund Hoefer
Edmund Hoefer was a leading German novelist of the second half of the 19th century and a noted literary historian.
Biography
After graduating from a gymnasium in 1839, he studied philology and history at the universities of Greifswald, Heidelberg and Berlin. He began to write fiction early in life, his first stories appearing in collected form under the title From the People, and proving very popular.They were followed by:
- Out of the Old Time and the New,
- As the People Speak was a collection of old proverbial sayings which Hoefer revised and expanded over the years, and an edition appeared in 1876.
- Skizzenbuch aus Norddeutschland, Schwanwiek,
- Bewegtes Leben,
- Days that Are No More,
- German Hearts was widely read.
- Norien. Erinnerungen einer alten Frau,
- Der große Baron,
- Unter der Fremdherrschaft,
- Tolleneck,
- Altermann Ryke and his
- Low German story Pap Kuhn.