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HEINRICH See also: Austrian dramatist, was See also: born in Vienna, on the 26th of See also: December 1771
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He received a legal See also: education and entered the Austrian See also: ministry of See also: finance where he found speedy promotion
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In 18o5 and in 1809, when See also: Austria was under the See also: heel of See also: Napoleon, Collin was entrusted with important See also: political See also: missions
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In 1803 he was, together with other members of his See also: family, ennobled, and in 1809 made Hofrat
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He died on the 28th of See also: July 181,
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His tragedy See also: Regulus (1801), written in strict classical See also: form, was received with See also: enthusiasm in Vienna, where See also: literary taste, less advanced than that of See also: North See also: Germany, was still under the See also: ban of French classicism
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But in his later dramas, Coriolan (1804), See also: Polyxena (1804), Balboa (,8o6), Bianca della Porta (18o8), he made some attempt to reconcile the pseudo-classic type of tragedy with that of See also: Shakespeare and the See also: German romanticists
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As a lyric poet (Gedichte, collected 1812), Collin has See also: left a collection of stirring Wehrmannslieder for the fighters in the cause of Austrian freedom, as well as some excellent See also: ballads (Kaiser Max auf der Martinswand, Herzog Leupold vor Solothurn)
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His younger See also: brother Matthaus von Collin (1779-1824), was, as editor of the Wiener Jahrbiicher fur Literatur, an even more potent force in the literary See also: life of Vienna
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He was, moreover, in sympathy with the Romantic See also: movement, and intimate with its leaders
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His dramas on themes from Austrian See also: national See also: history (Belas Krieg mit dem Vater, 18o8, Der See also: Tod Friedrichs See also: des Streitbaren, 1813) may be regarded as the immediate precursors of See also: Grillparzer's See also: historical tragedies
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His Gesammelte Werke appeared in 6 vols
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(1812–1814); he is the subject of an excellent monograph by F . Laban (1879) . See also A . Hauffen, Das Drama der klassischen Periode, ii . 2 (1891), where a reprint of Regulus will be found . M. von Collin's Dramatische Dichtungen were published in 4 vols . (1815–1817) ; his Nachgelassene Schriften, edited by J. vonSee also: Hammer, in 2 vols
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(1827)
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A study of his life and See also: work by J
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Wihan will be found in Euphorson, Erganzungsheft, v
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(1901)
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