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ADALBERT STIFTER (1805-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 917 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADALBERT See also:STIFTER (1805-1868)  , See also:Austrian author, was See also:born at Oberplan in Bohemia on the 23rd of See also:October 1805, the son of a See also:linen See also:weaver . Having studied at the university of See also:Vienna, he became See also:tutor to See also:Richard, eldest son of See also:Prince Metternich, and obtained in 1849 the See also:appointment as school inspectorwith the See also:title of Schulrat in See also:Linz, where he lived until his See also:death on the 28th of See also:January 1868 . As See also:early as 184o See also:Stifter had made his name known by his Feldblumen, a collection of charming little sketches, but his fame chiefly rests upon his Studien (1844-1851) in which he gathered together his early writings . These sketches of scenery and rural See also:life are among the best and purest examples of See also:German See also:prose . Among other of his See also:works may be cited Bunte Steine (1853), Nachsommer (1857), Witiko (1864-1867), and Briefe, which appeared posthumously in 1869 . Stifter's Sdmtliche Werke were published in 17 vols. in 187o . There are also See also:editions of selected works in 4 vols . (1887) and in 6 vols . (1899) . A See also:critical edition by A . Sauer is in preparation . Stifter's letters were published by J .

Aprent in 3 vols . (1869) . See E . Kuh, Zwei Dichter Osterreichs (1872) ; K . Proll, A . Stiffer, der Dichter See also:

des Bohmerwaldes (Vortrag, 1891) ; J . K . Markus, A . Stifter (2nd ed., 1879); A . R . Hein, A . Stifter (1904) ; T .

Klaiber, A . Stiffer (1905) ; W . Kosch, A . Stiffer and See also:

die Romantik (1905) .

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