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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Romberg, Arnold |
| Title, Analytic | Johannes Romberg, German Poet of Texas, Part I: Biography |
| Journal Title | The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society) |
| Date of Publication | Summer 2013 |
| Volume ID | 35 |
| Issue ID | 2 |
| Location in Work | 112, ill. |
| ISSN | 0730-3106 |
| Abstract | Johannes Romberg was born on November 10, 1808, at Alt-Buckow in the grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, son of Lutheran pastor Bernhard Friedrich Christlieb and Conradine Sophie Friederike (Hast) Romberg. In 1847 he and his wife and seven children emigrated to Texas, eventually settling in the Black Jack Springs area in Fayette County. About 1857 he founded the Prairieblume, a literary club that included German settlers from the Black Jack Springs and La Grange areas, who read and discussed their stories, articles and poems at each meeting. Romberg is considered to be the most outstanding German-Texan poet and among the number of notable German-American poets. Romberg died on February 5, 1891, in the Black Jack Springs community. |
| Notes | Originally appeared in the Fayette County Record, February 12, 2013. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | German Americans -- Texas/ Poetry/ Romberg, Johannes Christlieb Nathanael, 1808-1891 |