Biedermeier
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See also: biedermeier
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a pseudonym used by the country doctor Adolf Kussmaul and lawyer Ludwig Eichrodt in poems they published in the Munich satirical weekly Fliegende Blätter in 1850.
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Biedermeier
- (historical) A period in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities, starting with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and ending with the onset of the Revolutions of 1848.
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