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Leopold Schefer (1784–1862)
Schefer, Leopold (shä’fer). A German poet and story-writer; born at Muskau, Silesia, July 30, 1784; died there, Feb. 16, 1862. From 1816 to 1820 he traveled in Austria, Italy, Greece, the Ionian Islands, Turkey, and Asia Minor, and then began to publish his long series of stories. Among them are: ‘The Countess Ufeld’ (1834); ‘Many Men, Many Minds’ (1840), a story of witchcraft; ‘Divine Comedy at Rome’ (2d. ed. 1842); ‘The Sibyl of Mantua’ (1852), a pointed satire on the modern conventicle. His chief poetical works are: ‘Vigils’ (1842); ‘The Layman’s Breviary’ (1834; 18th ed. 1884); ‘The Secular Priest’ (1846); in these the tone is moral and religious, leaning toward pantheism; ‘Hafiz in Hellas, by a Hadji’ (1853).