Surname: Uhland Forename(s): Johann Ludwig b. 26 April 1787. d. 13 November 1862. Nationality: German. VIAF.
Philologist and poet. Educated at the University of Tübingen. Studied law in Paris
and set up his own private practice in Stuttgart. Married Emma Vischer in 1820. Liberal
MP in Tübingen. Author of many poems with folk-song affinities including the ballads
Die Rache and Des Sängers Fluch (1814) and the verse tragedies Ernst, Herzog von Schwaben (1818) and Ludwig der Bayer (1819). Biographical information: Oxford Reference. (DD)