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FREIHERR VON OSKAR REDWITZ (1823-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 972 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REDWITZ (1823-1891)  , See also:German poet, was See also:born at Lichtenau, near See also:Ansbach, on the 28th of See also:June 1823 . Having studied at the See also:universities of See also:Munich and See also:Erlangen, he was apprenticed to the See also:law in the Bavarian See also:State service (1846-49) . He next (1849-50) studied See also:languages and literature at See also:Bonn, and in 1851 was appointed See also:professor of See also:aesthetics and of the See also:history of literature at See also:Vienna . In 1852, however, he gave up this See also:post and retired to his See also:estate of Schellenberg, near See also:Kaiserslautern . The pious sentimentality of his romantic epic See also:Amaranth (1849; 42nd ed., 1898) had already gained him enthusiastic admirers, and this See also:work was followed, in 1850, by Ein Marchen and by Gedichte (1852) and the tragedy Sieglinde (1854) . He next settled on his estates near Kronach, and here wrote the tragedy See also:Thomas Morus (1856), the See also:historical dramas Philippine See also:Welser (1859) and Der Zunftmeister von Nurnberg (186o), of which the first two met with See also:great success . Elected member of the Bavarian Second Chamber for the See also:district in which he lived, he removed to Munich in 1862 . In 1868 he published the novel See also:Hermann See also:Stark, deutsches Leben, and in 1871 Das Lied vom neuen deutschen Reich (which contains several See also:hundred patriotic sonnets) . In 1872 he took up his See also:residence at See also:Meran, but passed the last years of his See also:life at a See also:sanatorium for See also:nervous disorders near See also:Bayreuth, where he died on the 6th of See also:July 1891 . See R . See also:Prutz, See also:Die deutsche Literatur der Gegenwart (1870), i. pp . 148 ff .

; H . Keiter, Zeitgenossische katholische Dichter See also:

Deutsch-lands (1884) ; H. von Volderndorff, Harmlose Plaudereien eines See also:alten Miincheners (1892); M . M . Rabenlechner, O. von See also:Redwitz' religioser Entwicklungsgang (1897) .

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