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Levin Schücking
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Born:
Sept. 6, 1814, Clemenswerth, W.Ger. [now Germany]
Died:
Aug. 31, 1883, Pyrmont, near Münster (aged 68)
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Levin Schücking

German writer
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Levin Schücking (born Sept. 6, 1814, Clemenswerth, W.Ger. [now Germany]—died Aug. 31, 1883, Pyrmont, near Münster) was a writer, author of many popular novels, most of which have a Westphalian setting and some of which show the influence of the Scottish Romantic novelist Sir Walter Scott. His works, however, have fallen into comparative oblivion.

After studying law, Schücking settled in Münster, devoting himself to literature. He was a tutor to the princes of Wrede and was on the editorial staff of the Allgemeine Zeitung in Augsburg, subsequently joining that of the Kölnischen Zeitung in Cologne (1845).

Schücking’s Westphalian romances include Ein Sohn des Volkes, 2 vol. (1849; “A Son of the People”) and Die Herberge der Gerechtigkeit (1879; “The Inn of Justice”).

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