Upbringing and education Born to a poor Berlin war-office clerk, For the
Augsburg Confession's tercentenary in June 1830, Hegel delivered an address in Latin as
rector, declaring that
Protestant Prussia reconciled religion, philosophy, and ethical life (). But news of the
July Revolution in Paris stirred
radical politics. But Menzel, wrote
David Friedrich Strauss, tried "to muzzle the spirit of the times". Gutzkow continued studies across the Universities of
Jena,
Heidelberg, and
Munich, publishing
Briefe eines Narren an eine Närrin (1832, Hamburg) anonymously. He wrote a fantastic, satirical Tibetan romance novel,
Maha-Guru, Geschichte eines Gottes (1833, Stuttgart,
Cotta), The Assembly sentenced Gutzkow to three months' imprisonment, barred him from editing in the
German Confederation, and officially suppressed his work. This only amplified it. arguably the first German
social novel.
Der Zauberer von Rom is a social allegory of
Roman Catholic life in southern Germany. After
Die Ritter vom Geiste, Gutzkow founded the journal
Unterhaltungen am häuslichen Herd (1852–1865, after Dickens'
Household Words). " of Gutzkow, No. "1170" probably made by an anonymous copyist
Later life An 1864 epileptic seizure reduced his theatrical work, but he wrote the historical novels
Hohenschwangau (1868) and
Fritz Ellrodt (1872), plus
Die Söhne Pestalozzis (1870, based on
Kaspar Hauser) and the autobiographical sketches
Lebensbilder (1870–1872). After another seizure, Gutzkow visited Italy in 1873 and then retired to the countryside near Heidelberg before returning to Frankfurt, where he died on 16 December 1878. ==Legacy==