Georg Herwegh

Georg Friedrich Rudolph Theodor Herwegh (31 May 1817 – 7 April 1875) was a German poet,[1] who is considered part of the Young Germany movement.

He studied law for a short time, but decided to return to Stuttgart, and became editor of August Lewald's periodical Europa.

His Gedichte eines Lebendigen ("Poems of a living man"[1]) were published in Zürich between 1841–1843 and immediately banned in Prussia.

[5] The fervent effusions of his poems became immensely popular, so that when, after a short trip to Paris, Herwegh journeyed through Germany in 1842, he was greeted with enthusiasm everywhere.

But the king of Württemberg pardoned him for desertion from military service,[6] and in the canton of Basel, of which he now became a citizen, he married Emma Siegmund, daughter of a Jewish merchant at Berlin.