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GERHART (houpt' män), a German dramatist and poet; born in Salzbrunn, Silesia, Nov. 15, 1862.
He was a scholar of solid attainments at Jena and Berlin. His taste for practical sociology comes out strongly in his intense and powerful poems and dramas; he settled on a small Silesian farm solely to study peasant life. He traveled widely, visiting the United States in 1894. His first play, "Promethidenlos" (1885) was conventional; but under Ibsen's inspiration he soon broke away from the old lines, producing "Before Sunrise" and "A Family Catastrophe," tragedies of labor. These and subsequent plays gave him world-wide repute. He later turned to comedy, but "The Weavers" and its successors represent his forte. Among his later plays may be mentioned "Mathilde" (1902); "Ein- HAURAKI hart der Lächler" (1907); "The Apostle," a novel (1902).
HAURAKI (hō-rä-kē), a gulf and a gold-bearing peninsula of New Zealand, opposite Auckland.
HAURAN (hä-ran'), a large district in Syria, E. of the Sea of Galilee. The name is sometimes restricted to one fertile plain there.