Excerpt from Der Trompeter Von SäkkingenJoseph victor von scheffel was born in Karlsruhe, the chief town of Baden, Feb. 16, 1826. His natal star was almost as propitious as that of Goethe. Like the latter, he inherited from a gifted and imaginative mother a poetic cast of nature, while to the' severer temperament and greater worldly wisdom of his father he owed the art of orderly and practical living. The father was of the rank of Major, and, ...
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