Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914) was the son and grandson of painters.
His mother died when he was still a child; his relations with his father in later life were vexed.
He traveled to Norway when young and in his early literary activity translated the plays of Henrik Ibsen.
Unlucky in first love, he eventually married happily; and enjoyed several years of settled domesticity before dying of consumption at the age of forty-three, being spared the First World War.
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