The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Sturm, Julius

STURM, Julius, German lyric poet: b. Köstritz in Reuss, 21 July 1816; d. Leipzig, 2 May 1896. He studied theology at Jena and was pastor at Göschitz, 1851-57 and at Köstritz, 1857-85. His poems have a decidedly religious or nationalistic trend. Among his published volumes are ‘Two Roses; or, the Canticle of Love’ (1854); ‘Devout Songs and Poems’ (1858); ‘Israelite Songs’ (3d ed., 1881); ‘Poems of Battle and Victory’ (1870); ‘Mirror of the Time in Fables’ (1872); ‘To the Lord my Song’ (1884); ‘Palm and Crown’ (1887); ‘In Joy and in Sorrow’ (1896); ‘Für das Haus’; ‘Lieder und Bilder’; ‘Kampf und Liegesgedichte’; ‘Spiegel der Zeit in Fabeln’; ‘Kinderleben’; ‘Immergrün’; ‘Natur, Liebe, Vaterland.’ Consult the biographies by Hepding (Giessen 1896) and Hoffman (Hamburg 1898).