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THEODOR See also: German author, was See also: born at See also: Potsdam on the 19th of See also: September 18o8
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Having studied See also: philology and philosophy at Berlin, he settled in 1832 at See also: Leipzig, as a journalist, and was subjected to a rigorous police supervision
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In 1839 he married Klara See also: Muller (1814–1873), who under the name of Luise Miihlbach became a popular novelist, and he removed in the same
See also: year to Berlin
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Here his intention of entering upon an academical career was for a See also: time thwarted by his collision with the Prussian See also: press See also: laws
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In 1842, however, he was permitted to establish himself as privatdocent
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In 1848 he was appointed professor of literature and See also: history in See also: Breslau, and in 185o ordinary professor and librarian in Berlin; there he died on the 3oth of See also: November 1861
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See also: Mundt wrote extensively on aesthetic subjects, and as a critic he had considerable influence in his time
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Prominent among his See also: works are Die Kunst der deutschen Prosa (1837); Geschichte der Literatur der Gegenwart (184o) ; Aesthetik; die Idee der Schonheit and See also: des Kunstwerks See also: im Lichte unserer Zeit (1845, new ed
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1868); Die Gotterwelt der See also: alien Volker (1846, new ed
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1854)
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He also wrote several See also: historical novels; See also: Thomas Mi nzer (1841);
See also: Mendoza, der Vater der Schelmen (1847) and Die Matadore (1850)
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But perhaps Mundt's chi' f title to fame was his See also: part in the emancipation of See also: women, a theme which he elaborated in his Madonna, Unterhaltungen mit einer Heiligen (1835)
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