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See also: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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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His political views again stood in the way, and forsaking the legal career, See also:Gottschall now devoted himself entirely to literature
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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
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In 1852 he married See also:Marie, baroness von Seherr-Thoss, and for the next few years lived in See also:Silesia
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In 1862 he took over the editorship of a See also:Posen newspaper, but in 1864 removed"to Leipzig
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Gottschall was raised, in 1877, by the See also:
He died at Leipzig on the 21st of See also: |
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