Fearing in consequence prosecution at the hands of the authorities, he abided events in France and Belgium, and after issuing in Leipzig Neuere Gedichte (1846) returned home, where he suffered a short term of imprisonment.

In 1860, he settled in Geneva as a teacher of German literature and history, became in 1865 editor of the Freya in Stuttgart and in 1868 a member of the staff of the Neue Freie Presse in Vienna.

[3] Among Hartmann's numerous works may be especially mentioned Der Krieg um den Wald (The War over the forest; 1850), a novel, the scene of which is laid in Bohemia; Tagebuch aus Languedoc und Provence (Diary from Languedoc and Provence; 1852); Erzählungen eines Unsteten (Tales of a restless person; 1858); and Die letzten Tage eines Konigs (The last days of a king; 1867).

See also E. Ziel, "Moritz Hartmann" (in Unsere Zeit, 1872); A. Marchand, Les poètes lyriques de l'Autriche (1892); Brandes, Das junge Deutschland (Charlottenburg, 1899).

Hartmann's poems are often lacking in genuine poetical feeling, but the love of liberty which inspired them, and the fervour, ease and clearness of their style compensated for these shortcomings and gained him a wide circle of admirers.