Ludwig Eichrodt was the son of Ludwig Friedrich Eichrodt (1798-1844), an officer, and Elisabeth (née Joos, 1809-1891) Eichrodt. He studied at Heidelberg and Freiburg and published in 1848 in Fliegende Blätter his comic songs, “Wanderlust,” which had great popularity.
Literary works
Gedichte in allerlei Humoren (Stuttgart 1853)
Schneiderbüchlein (anonymous with H. Goll, Stuttgart 1853)
Leben und Liebe, poems (Frankfurt 1856)
Die Pfalzgrafen, dramatic poem (Lahr 1859)
Deutsches Knabenbuch; Weltruhm in Reimsprüchen (Lahr 1865)
Alboin, dramatic poem (Bühl 1865)
Rhein-schwäbisch, poem in middle-Baden dialect (Karlsruhe 1869, 2. Aufl. 1873)