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Johannes Christlieb Nathanael Romberg

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Johannes Christlieb Nathanael Romberg

Birth
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Death
1891 (aged 82–83)
O'Quinn, Fayette County, Texas, USA
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O'Quinn, Fayette County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Johannes Christlieb Nathanael Romberg is often referred to as the German Poet Laureate of Texas due to his very popular and widely acclaimed book of poems published posthumously in 1897. The American-German Review said of Romberg in 1946, "His judgement in his own poetry is too modest. In pleasing unaffected style and with complete mastery of the poetic form, he interprets life as he feels and sees it."

Johannes Romberg was born in Hagenow in Mecklenburg-Schwerin in Germany, the only son of Pastor Bernhard Friedrich Christlieb Romberg and Conradine Sophie Friederike Hast. Due to the repressive political climate of his home country, Johannes and his wife, Friederike, along with his then six children emigrated to Texas in 1847 via the port of Galveston, shortly after Texas's statehood. He ultimately settled in Fayette County, where he started a popular literary society, the Prarieblume, which flourished until the Civil War.

During the Civil War, Romberg along with others from his community traveled to Mexico, Central America and California "simply because they did not have the Southern viewpoint".

He later returned to his home in the Black Jack Springs Community (now O'Quinn) and lived out his days among numerous children and grandchildren.
Johannes Christlieb Nathanael Romberg is often referred to as the German Poet Laureate of Texas due to his very popular and widely acclaimed book of poems published posthumously in 1897. The American-German Review said of Romberg in 1946, "His judgement in his own poetry is too modest. In pleasing unaffected style and with complete mastery of the poetic form, he interprets life as he feels and sees it."

Johannes Romberg was born in Hagenow in Mecklenburg-Schwerin in Germany, the only son of Pastor Bernhard Friedrich Christlieb Romberg and Conradine Sophie Friederike Hast. Due to the repressive political climate of his home country, Johannes and his wife, Friederike, along with his then six children emigrated to Texas in 1847 via the port of Galveston, shortly after Texas's statehood. He ultimately settled in Fayette County, where he started a popular literary society, the Prarieblume, which flourished until the Civil War.

During the Civil War, Romberg along with others from his community traveled to Mexico, Central America and California "simply because they did not have the Southern viewpoint".

He later returned to his home in the Black Jack Springs Community (now O'Quinn) and lived out his days among numerous children and grandchildren.

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