Karl Gutzkow
Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow (17 March 1811 in Berlin – 16 December 1878 in Sachsenhausen) was a German writer notable in the Young Germany movement of the mid-19th century.Gutzkow was born of an extremely poor family, not proletarian, but of the lowest
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Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow (17 March 1811 in Berlin – 16 December 1878 in Sachsenhausen) was a German writer notable in the Young Germany movement of the mid-19th century.Gutzkow was born of an extremely poor family, not proletarian, but of the lowest and most menial branch of state employees.His father held a clerkship in the war office in Berlin,[2] and was pietistic and puritanical in his outlook and demands. Jacob Wittmer Hartmann speculates that Gutzkow's later agnosticism was probably a reaction against the excessive religiosity of his early surroundings.[1] After completing his basic studies, beginning in 1829 Gutzkow studied theology and philosophy at the University of Berlin,where his teachers included Hegel and Schleiermacher
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