The New International Encyclopædia/Pfizer, Gustav

PFIZER, pfĭt'sẽr, Gustav (1807-90). A German lyrist and critic of the Swabian school. He was born in Stuttgart, studied at Tübingen, and in 1840 became professor at the gymnasium in his native city. He wrote Gedichte (1831), Dichtungen epischer und episch-lyrischer Gattung (1840), and Der Welsche und der Deutsche (1844); translations of Bulwer and Byron; the critical work Uhland und Rückert (1837), and an attack on Heine which called out the Schwabenspiegel. His poetry is more original and reflective than most of the products of the Swabian school.