Friedrich Rückert ( 16 May 1788 – 31 January 1866 ) was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages.

Rückert was born at Schweinfurt and was the eldest son of a lawyer.

When Rückert began his literary career, Germany was engaged in her life-and-death struggle with Napoleon ; and in his first volume, Deutsche Gedichte ( German Poems ), published in 1814 under the pseudonym Freimund Raimar, he gave, particularly in the powerful Geharnischte Sonette ( Sonnets in Arms / Harsh Words ), vigorous expression to the prevailing sentiment of his countrymen.

Through the influence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ), the ghazal became very popular in Germany during the 19th century ; the form was used extensively by Friedrich Rückert ( 1788 – 1866 ) and August von Platen ( 1796 – 1835 ).

" We will meet them again " was a translation of a verse from the Kindertotenlieder, a series of poems by Friedrich Rückert used by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler for his song cycle of the same name, its meaning being " Songs On The Death Of Children ".

* May 16 – Friedrich Rückert, German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages ( d. 1866 )

* January 31 – Friedrich Rückert, German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages ( b. 1788 )

Rückert had a splendour of imagination which made Oriental poetry congenial to him, and he has seldom been surpassed in rhythmic skill and metrical ingenuity.

In the spring of 1813, he made a journey to northern Germany, where he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Friedrich Rückert, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Adelbert von Chamisso and others.

He made numerous shorter works for Scottish Ballet and other companies, including the lyrical Five Rückert Songs ( 1978 ).

The words of the songs are poems by Friedrich Rückert.

The original Kindertotenlieder were a group of 428 poems written by Rückert in 1833 – 34 in reaction to the illness ( scarlet fever ) and death of his children.

Rückert-Lieder is a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert.

The first four songs were premiered on 29 January 1905 in Vienna, Mahler conducting himself, together with his Kindertotenlieder ( also on poems by Rückert ).

He went on to set many other poets ' works, including Friedrich Rückert, and translations of William Shakespeare and Lord Byron.

Friedrich Rückert.

The monument to one of the most famous sons of the city of Schweinfurt – Friedrich Rückert – is situated at Marktplatz.

Allegorical figures from his works — “ Geharnischte Sonette ” (“ Withering Sonnets ”) and “ Weisheit des Brahmanen ” (“ Wisdom of the Brahmans ”) — are situated at the feet of the bronze Rückert.

See B. Fortlage, F. Rückert und seine Werke ( 1867 ); C. Beyer, Friedrich Rückert, ein biographisches Denkmal ( 1868 ), Neue Mitteilungen über Rückert ( 1873 ), and Nachgelassene Gedichte Rückerts und neue Beiträge zu dessen Leben und Schriften ( 1877 ); R. Boxberger, Rückert-Studien ( 1878 ); P. de Lagarde, Erinnerungen an F. Rückert ( 1886 ); F. Muncker, Friedrich Rückert ( 1890 ); G. Voigt, Rückerts Gedankenlyrik ( 1891 ).

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

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