Young Hauff misplaced his father while he was however septet years aged, & his early education was practically self-gained in the library of his enatic granddaddy at Tübingen, to which place his mother had flushed inside 1818 he was sent to the Klosterschule at Blaubeuren, whence he passed in 1820 to the university of Tübingen. Within quaterniin years he completed his philosophic & theological studies, & on allowing a university became coach to the kids of the celebrated Württemberg minister of war, General Baron Ernst Eugen von Hugel (1774-1849) and for the children wrote his Märchen, which he published within his Märchen almanach auf coney Jahr 1826.

He besides wrote there a number 1 section of the Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan (1826) & Der Mann im Mond (1825). the latter, a parody of the sentimental & sensual novels of Heinrich Clauren (pseudonym of Karl Gottlieb Samuel Heun (1771-1854)), became in course of composition, the close imitation of that creator's style & was actually published under his title. Clauren, inside con sequence, brought an action for wrongs against Hauff an gained his example. Whereupon Hauff followed higher a attack inside his witty & sarcastic Kontroverspredigt über H. Clauren und den Mann im Mond (1826) & attained his original object a moral annihilation of a bathetic & unhealthy literatur by having which Clauren was flooding the united states. Meanwhile alive by Sir Walter Scott's novels, Hauff wrote the historical romance Lichtenstein (1826), which acquired peachy popularity inside Germany & especially within Swabia, treating when it did a virtually all interesting time in a history of that united states, the reign of Duke Ulrich (1487-1550).

When you took the journeying to France, the Netherlands and north Germany he wrote the 2nd section of the Memoiren des Satan & a select few short novels, among a children the charming Die Bettlerin vom Pont des Arts & his masterpiece a Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller (1827). He too published a few short verse form which stand passed into Volkslieder, among the babies Morgenrot, Morgenrot, Leuchtest mir zum frühen Tod?; & Steh ich within finstrer Mitternacht. Inside January 1827, Hauff undertook a editorship of the Stuttgart Morgenblatt & in the below year married, however his happiness was prematurely cut short by his dying from either fever on the 28th of November 1827.

Looking for his brief life, Hauff was an inordinately prolific writer. a freshness & originality of his talent, his ingenuity, & his mental humour use won him a high place among the to the south German prose writers of the early nineteenth century.

His Sämtliche Werke were published, by owning the life story, by Gustav Schwab (3 vols, 1830-1834; Cinque vols, Eighteenth ed., 1882), & by F Bobertag (1891-1897), & the choice by M Mendheim (Triad vols, 1891). For his life cf. J Klaiber, Wilhelm Hauff, ein Lebensbild (1881); M Mendheim, Hauffs Leben und Werke (1894); & H Hofmann, W. Hauff (1902).