Theodor Woldsen Storm

Theodor Woldsen Storm (born September 14, 1817, Husum, Schleswig [Germany]—died July 4, 1888, Hademarschen) was a poet and novelist whose novellas are among the finest in German literature. He is an outstanding representative of German poetic Realism, which had as its aim the portrayal of the positive values of everyday life. He took for his models the late Romantics and Eduard Mörike, who, along with Gottfried Keller, Paul von Heyse, and the Russian writer Ivan...