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FRANZ VON DINGELSTEDT (1814-1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 276 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANZ VON See also:DINGELSTEDT (1814-1881)  , See also:German poet and dramatist, was See also:born at Halsdorf, in See also:Hesse See also:Cassel, on the 3oth of See also:June 1814 . Having studied at the university of See also:Marburg, he became in 1836 a See also:master at the See also:Lyceum in Cassel, from which he was ;transferred to See also:Fulda in 1838 . In 1839 he produced a novel, Unter der Erde, which obtained considerable success, and in 1841 published the See also:book by which he is best remembered, the Lieder eines kosmopolitischen Nachtwachters . These poems, animated as they are by a spirit of See also:bitter opposition to everything that savours of despotism, were an effective contribution to the See also:political See also:poetry of the See also:day . The popularity of this book determined See also:Dingelstedt to take up a.See also:literary career, and in 1841 he obtained an See also:appointment on the See also:staff of the Augsburger allgemeine Zeitung . In 1843, however, the satirist of German princes accepted, to the See also:general surprise, the appointment of private librarian to the See also:king of See also:Wurttemberg, and in the same See also:year he married the celebrated Bohemian See also:opera See also:singer, Jenny Lutzer . In 1845 he published a See also:volume of poems, some of which, treating of See also:modern See also:life, possessed See also:great literary rather than strictly poetical merit . A subsequent collection, published in 1852, attracted little See also:attention . The success of his tragedy Das Haus der Barneveldt (185o) obtained for him the position of See also:intendant at the See also:court See also:theatre at See also:Munich, where he soon became the centre of literary society . He incurred, however, the animosity of the Jesuit clique at the court, and in 1856 was suddenly dismissed on the most frivolous charges . A similar position was offered to him at See also:Weimar through the See also:influence of See also:Liszt, and he remained there until 1867 . His See also:administration was , most successful, and he especially distinguished himself by presenting all See also:Shakespeare's See also:historical plays upon the See also:stage in an unbroken See also:cycle .

In 1867 he became director of the court opera See also:

house in See also:Vienna, and in 187.2 of the Hofburgtheater, :a position he held until his See also:death on the 15th of May 1881 . Among his other See also:works may be noticed an autobiographical See also:sketch of his Munich career, entitled See also:Manchester 276 Bilderbogen (1879), See also:Die Amazone, an See also:art novel of considerable merit (1869), See also:translations of several of Shakespeare's comedies, and several writings dealing with questions of See also:practical dramaturgy . He was ennobled in 1867 by the king of See also:Bavaria and in 1876 was created Freiherr by the See also:emperor of See also:Austria . Dingelstedt's Samtliche Werke appeared in 12 vols . (1877-1878), but this edition is far from See also:complete . On his life see, besides the autobiography mentioned above, J . Rodenberg, Heimaterinnerungen an F . Dingelstedt (See also:Berlin, 1882), and by the same author, F . Dingelstedt, Blatter aus seinem Nachlass (2 vols., 1891) . Also an See also:essay by A . Stern in Zur Literatur derGegenwart (See also:Leipzig, 1880) .

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