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LUDWIG ANZENGRUBER (1839-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 158 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUDWIG See also:ANZENGRUBER (1839-1889)  , See also:Austrian dramatist and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Vienna on the 29th of See also:November 1839 . He was educated at the Realschule of his native See also:town, and then entered a bookseller's See also:shop; from 186o to 1867 he was an actor, without, however, displaying any marked See also:talent, although his See also:stage experience later stood him in See also:good See also:stead . In 1869 he became a clerk in the Viennese See also:police See also:department, but having in the following See also:year made a success with his See also:anti-clerical See also:drama, Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld, he gave up his See also:appointment and devoted himself entirely to literature . He died at Vienna on the loth of See also:December 1889 . See also:Anzengruber was exceedingly fertile in ideas, and wrote a See also:great many plays . They are mostly of Austrian See also:peasant See also:life, and although somewhat See also:melancholy in See also:tone are interspersed with See also:bright and witty scenes . Among the best known are Der Meineidbauer (1871), See also:Die Kreuzelschreiber (1872), Der G'wissenswurm (1874), See also:Hand and Herz (1875), Doppelselbstmord (1875), Das vierte Gebot (1877), and Der Fleck auf der Ehr' (1889) . Anzengruber also published a novel of considerable merit, Der Schandfleck (1876; remodelled 1884); and various See also:short stories and tales of See also:village life collected under the See also:title Wolken and See also:Sunn'schein (1888) . Anzengruber's collected See also:works, with a See also:biography, were published in to vols. in 1890 (3rd ed . 1897) ; his See also:correspondence has beenedited by A . Bettelheim (1902) . See A .

Bettelheim, L . Anzengruber (189o) ; L . Rosner, Erinnerungen an L . Anzengruber (1890): H . Sittenberger, Studien zur Dramaturgie der Gegenwart (1899); S . See also:

Friedmann, L . Anzengruber (1902) .

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