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THEODOR MUNDT (18o8–1861)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 5 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MUNDT (18o8–1861)  , See also:German author, was See also:born at See also:Potsdam on the 19th of See also:September 18o8 . Having studied See also:philology and See also:philosophy at See also:Berlin, he settled in 1832 at See also:Leipzig, as a journalist, and was subjected to a rigorous See also:police supervision . 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 . 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 . In 1842, however, he was permitted to establish himself as privatdocent . In 1848 he was appointed See also:professor of literature and See also:history in See also:Breslau, and in 185o See also:ordinary professor and librarian in Berlin; there he died on the 3oth of See also:November 1861 . See also:Mundt wrote extensively on aesthetic subjects, and as a critic he had considerable See also:influence in his time . Prominent among his See also:works are See also: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 . 1868); Die Gotterwelt der See also:alien Volker (1846, new ed . 1854) . 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) . But perhaps Mundt's chi' f See also: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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