Fritz Reuter

Fritz Reuter (1810-1874) was a German humourist, born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. When a student at Jena took part in a movement among the students in behalf of German unity. He was arrested and condemned, after commutation of sentence of death, to thirty years' imprisonment, but was released, after seven of them, in broken health, and after eleven more took to writing a succession of humorous poems in Low German, which placed him in the front rank of the humourists of Germany.

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