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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Wolfgang Freiherr von Hohberg
Though often mentioned together with Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg and Johann Wilhelm von Stubenberg, Wolfgang Helmhard Freiherr von Hohberg is less known for his literary talents than as a representative of the Austrian landed gentry whose Protestant faith forced him into an undesired exile. Critics have been less than generous in evaluating his literary contributions; at the end of the seventeenth century Erdmann Neumeister wrote that "one can recognize without difficulty how inappropriate Hohberg's poetic style is to the heroic epic," and in a late-nineteenth-century appraisal Johann Willibald Nagl asserts that Hohberg's poetry is "just as unenjoyable now as most products of German Renaissance poetry." Recent critics have viewed him a representative of the exiled Protestant literati, a dying breed of small landowning Austrians, or placed his poetry in the context of the development of the early novel. Nonetheless, Hohberg was as versatile as he was accomplished, and...
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