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From: Stewart
Remote Name: 138.162.8.58
Date: 07/14/2008
Time: 08:49:48 AM
I was looking up what Biedermeier clothes might be exactly, to understand Walt's recent posting, and came across a point of interest. It seems the name comes, in a way, from stein collectors' favorite poet Von Scheffel. Other poets were poking fun of his petit bourgeois style in a satirical magazine of the time: "The name was constructed from the titles of two poems (Biedermanns Abendgemütlichkeit (Biedermann's Evening Comfort) and Bummelmaiers Klage (Bummelmaier's Complaint)) that Joseph Victor von Scheffel had published in 1848 in the same magazine." The quote is from Wikipedia but I've confirmed the general sense elsewhere.