GEORG ASMUS
\d͡ʒˈɔːɡ ɐsmjˈuːz], \dʒˈɔːɡ ɐsmjˈuːz], \dʒ_ˈɔː_ɡ ɐ_s_m_j_ˈuː_z]\
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A German poet; born at Giessen, Nov. 27, 1830; died in Bonn, May 31, 1892. Employed as an engineer in 1854-62, he came to America to conduct some mining operations in the copper region of Lake Superior; then lived in New York until 1884, when he returned to Europe. Among the German population of America he had an enormous success with his "American Sketch-Booklet" (1875), an epistle in verse, written in Upper-Hessian dialect and overflowing with delicious humor. It was followed by "New American Sketch-Booklet" (1876). Besides these he wrote "Camp Paradise" (1877), a story, and a collection of miscellaneous poems (1891).
By Charles Dudley Warner
