Wilhelm Ténint, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French Romantic writer
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Wilhelm Ténint
- Wilhelm Ténint (20 May 1817, Paris – 26 April 1879, Stockholm) was a minor French Romantic writer. He was a fervent admirer of Victor Hugo and of the "modern school" of Romantic literature.
- He published in Parisian literary journals such as La Presse, and was a member of the Société des gens de lettres.
- In 1844, he published a handbook for and defense of Romantic prosody titled Prosodie de l'école moderne, which had a brief introduction by Hugo and a longer introduction by Emile Deschamps.
- Ténint's handbook mistakenly claimed that the unique, nonce structure of Jean Passerat's 1574 "Villanelle" was an old French form akin to terza rima; the poet Théodore de Banville subsequently "revived" this "Renaissance form," thus helping to create the modern 19-line poetic form called the villanelle.
- Ténint was placed under house arrest for pederasty in 1851 and thereafter left France for Sweden, where he translated Swedish works into French.
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