Karl Friedrich Henckell

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Karl Friedrich Henckell (1864–1929 ) was a German author. He was born in Hanover and studied at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Munich, and Zurich. He lived abroad, in Switzerland (Lenzburg and Zurich), in Italy (Milan), and in Belgium (Brussels), and was well acquainted with the modern literatures of Europe, on which he frequently lectured, besides giving readings from his own poems. In 1896-1905 he was his own publisher in Zurich and Leipzig. He settled in Munich in 1908. His poetry is revolutionary and socialistic in its tendency. Among his books are:

• Skizzenbuch (1884)
• Strophen (1887)
• Diorama (1889); a collected edition in 1898
• Gipfel und Gründe (1904)
• Mein Lied (1906)
• Schwingungen (1907)
• Im Weitergehn (1911)

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