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KARL AUGUST VON HEIGEL (1835-1905)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 212 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUST VON See also:HEIGEL (1835-1905)  , See also:German novelist, was See also:born, the son of a regisseur or See also:stage-manager of the See also:court See also:theatre, on the 25th of See also:March 1835 at See also:Munich . In this See also:city he received his See also:early schooling and studied (1854-1858) See also:philosophy at the university . He was then appointed librarian to See also:Prince Heinrich zu Carolath-See also:Beuthen in See also:Lower See also:Silesia, and accompanied the See also:nephew of the prince on travels . In 1863 he settled in See also:Berlin, where from 1865 to 1875 he was engaged in journalism . He next resided at Munich, employed in See also:literary See also:work for the See also:king, See also:Ludwig II., who in 1881 conferred upon him a See also:title of See also:nobility . On the See also:death of the king in 1886 he removed to See also:Riva on the Lago di See also:Garda, where he died on the 6th of See also:September 1905 . Karl von See also:Heigel attained some popularity with his novels: Wohin ? (1873), See also:Die See also:Dame ohne Herz (1873), Das Geheimnis See also:des Konigs (1891), Der See also:Roman einer Stadt (1898), Der Maharadschah (1900), Die nervose Frau (1900), Die neuen Heiligen (1901), and Bromels See also:Gluck and Ende (1902) . He also wrote some plays, notably See also:Josephine See also:Bonaparte (1892) and Die Zarin (1883) ; and several collections of See also:short stories, Neue Erzdhlungen (1876), Neueste Novellen (1878), and Heitere Erzdhlungen (1893) .

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