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RUDOLF VON GOTTSCHALL (1823-1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 279 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUDOLF VON See also:GOTTSCHALL (1823-1909)  , See also:German See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Breslau on the 3oth of See also:September 1823, the son of a Prussian See also:artillery officer . He received his See also:early See also:education at the gymnasia in See also:Mainz and See also:Coburg, and subsequently at See also:Rastenburg in See also:East See also:Prussia . In 1841 he entered the university of See also:Konigsberg as a student of See also:law, but, in consequence of his pronounced liberal opinions, was expelled . The See also:academic authorities at Breslau and See also:Leipzig were not more tolerant towards the See also:young See also:fire-eater, and it was only in See also:Berlin that he eventually found himself See also:free to prosecute his studies . During this See also:period of unrest he issued Lieder der Gegenwart (1842) and Zensurfliichtlinge (1843)—the poetical fruits of his See also:political See also:enthusiasm . He completed his studies in Berlin, took the degree of See also:doctor See also:juris in Konigsberg, and endeavoured to obtain there the venia legendi . His political views again stood in the way, and forsaking the legal career, See also:Gottschall now devoted himself entirely to literature . He met with immediate success, and beginning as dramaturge in Konigsberg with Der Blinde von See also:Alcala (1846) and See also:Lord See also:Byron in Italien (1847) proceeded to See also:Hamburg where he occupied a similar position . In 1852 he married See also:Marie, baroness von Seherr-Thoss, and for the next few years lived in See also:Silesia . In 1862 he took over the editorship of a See also:Posen newspaper, but in 1864 removed"to Leipzig . Gottschall was raised, in 1877, by the See also:king of Prussia to the hereditary See also:nobility with the prefix " von," having been previously made a Geheimer Hofrat by the See also:grand See also:duke of See also:Weimar . Down to 1887 Gottschall edited the See also:Brockhaus'sche Blatter See also:fur litterarische Uxterhaltung and the monthly periodical Unsere Zeit .

He died at Leipzig on the 21st of See also:

March 1909 . Gottschall's prolific See also:literary productions See also:cover the See also:fields of See also:poetry, novel-See also:writing and literary See also:criticism . Among his volumes of lyric poetry are Sebastopol (1856), See also:Janus (1873), Bunte Bliiten (1891) . Among his epics, Carlo See also:Zeno (1854), Maja (1864), dealing with an See also:episode in the See also:Indian See also:Mutiny, and Merlins Wanderungen (1887) . The See also:comedy See also:Pitt and See also:Fox (1854), first produced on the See also:stage in Breslau, was never surpassed by the other lighter pieces of the author, among which may be mentioned See also:Die Welt See also:des Schwindels and Der Spion von Rheinsberg . The tragedies, Mazeppa, Catharine See also:Howard, Amy See also:Robsart and Der Gotze von Venedig, were very successful; and the See also:historical novels, lm Banne des schwarzen Adlers (1875; 4th ed., 1884), Die Erbschaft des Blutes (1881), Die rocker Riibezahls (1889), and Verkummerte Existenzen (1892), enjoyed a high degree of popularity . As a critic and historian of literature Gottschall has also done excellent See also:work . His Die deutsche Nationalliteratur des zg . Jahrhunderts (1855; 7th ed., 1901-1902), and Poetik (1858; 6th ed., 1903) command the respect of all students of literature . Gottschall's collected Dramatische Werke appeared in 12 vols. in 188o (2nd ed., 1884); he has also, in See also:recent years, published many volumes of collected essays and criticisms . See his autobiography, Aus meiner Jugend (1898) .

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