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HEINRICH JOSEPH VON COLLIN (1771-1811)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 690 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH VON See also:COLLIN (1771-1811)  , See also:Austrian dramatist, was See also:born in See also:Vienna, on the 26th of See also:December 1771 . He received a legal See also:education and entered the Austrian See also:ministry of See also:finance where he found speedy promotion . In 18o5 and in 1809, when See also:Austria was under the See also:heel of See also:Napoleon, See also:Collin was entrusted with important See also:political See also:missions . In 1803 he was, together with other members of his See also:family, ennobled, and in 1809 made Hofrat . He died on the 28th of See also:July 181, . 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 See also:taste, less advanced than that of See also:North See also:Germany, was still under the See also:ban of See also:French classicism . But in his later dramas, Coriolan (1804), See also:Polyxena (1804), See also:Balboa (,8o6), Bianca della Porta (18o8), he made some See also:attempt to reconcile the pseudo-classic type of tragedy with that of See also:Shakespeare and the See also:German romanticists . 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, See also:Herzog Leupold vor Solothurn) . His younger See also:brother Matthaus von Collin (1779-1824), was, as editor of the Wiener Jahrbiicher See also:fur Literatur, an even more potent force in the literary See also:life of Vienna . He was, moreover, in sympathy with the Romantic See also:movement, and intimate with its leaders . 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 . His Gesammelte Werke appeared in 6 vols .

(1812–1814); he is the subject of an excellent monograph by F . Laban (1879) . See also A . Hauffen, Das See also:

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. von See also:Hammer, in 2 vols . (1827) . A study of his life and See also:work by J . Wihan will be found in Euphorson, Erganzungsheft, v . (1901) .

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