WorkMoritz Hartmann

Poem on the Irish potato famine / 'Frau Kartoffel'

Poem on the Irish potato famine / 'Frau Kartoffel' (Mistress Potato), published in Germany c. 1845 Inferred

InferredFuller explicitly names Moritz Hartmann (1821–1872), providing a full prose translation of his German poem about the potato blight as a parable of social neglect. Hartmann was a Bohemian-Austrian revolutionary poet whose major 1845 collection was Kelch und Schwert. The specific German title of this poem, however, could not be verified.

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New-York Daily Tribune

“New Year's Day” · January 1, 1845, January 1845 · p. 1

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“The poem of which we here give a prose translation lately appeared in Germany. It is written by Moritz Hartmann”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.

Inferred Fuller explicitly names Moritz Hartmann (1821–1872), providing a full prose translation of his German poem about the potato blight as a parable of social neglect. Hartmann was a Bohemian-Austrian revolutionary poet whose major 1845 collection was Kelch und Schwert. The specific German title of this poem, however, could not be verified.