The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Kerner, Justinius

KERNER, kĕr'nĕr, Justinius, German poet: b. 1786; d. 1862. He belonged to the Schwabian school. He was at times morbid, fanciful, dreamy, sensitive and poetic and endowed with a strange, fantastic humor that gained him many admirers. He graduated in medicine and practised his profession in several towns of Germany. Among his popular works are &lsquo;Reiseschatten&rsquo; (1811), and &lsquo;Die Seherin von Provost&rsquo; (1829).