Otto Roquette

The son of a district court councillor, he first went to Bromberg (modern Bydgoszcz) in 1834, and from 1846 to 1850 studied Philology and History in Heidelberg, Berlin, and Halle.

Roquette's pseudo-romantic and epigonic lyric poetry and his fairy tale-laden epic verse is representative of Butzenscheibenlyric.

His fashionable post-revolution poetry was a deliberate departure from the politically tinged verse of the pre-March era.

[1] His 1851 poem Noch ist die blühende, goldene Zeit was fit to a well-known folk tune in 1863 by the musician Wilhelm Baumgartner.

Later generations found Roquette's work to be predominantly shallow and of little artistic value, and it is virtually forgotten today.