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Hermann LnsHermann Lns (August 29 1866 - September 26 1914) was a German journalist and writer. He is most famous as "The Poet Of The Heath" for his novels and poems celebrating the people and landscape of the North German moors, particularly the Lneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. Born in Kulm (now Chelmno) in Western Prussia, he spend his school and university times in Mnster and Greifswald. Being interested in the biology of the mollusks, he studied medicine and natural sciences. However he did not finish the study, but instead in the 1890s he started to work as a journalist. At the same time he started to write poems, in the 1910s he changed to write short stories and novels. Inspired by pre- and post-Christian folklore and history, his most famous novel is Der Wehrwolf (The Warwolf - 1910), an alternately heart-warming and heart-wrenching chronicle of a North German farming community suffering tragedies and ultimate triumph during the harrowing period of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). At the age of 48 he volunteered for service in the German Army and fell on the frontlines at Loivre in France shortly after the start of World War I. As in some of his writings he showed nationalistic ideas he was later considered by the Nazis as one of their writers - despite the fact that Lns' life style didn't match the Nazi ideals. On request of Adolf Hitler Lns was exhumed and reburied in the Lneburg Heath near the city Walsrode. Lns, Hermann Lns, Hermann
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