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See also:CASTELLI, IGNAZ See also:FRANZ (1781—1862) , See also:Austrian dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Vienna on the 6th of See also:March 1781. He studied See also:law at the university, and then entered the See also:government service. During the See also:Napoleonic invasions his patriotism inspired him to write stirring See also:war songs, one of which, Kriegslied See also:fur See also:die Osterreiclzische Arnzee, was printed by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the See also:archduke See also:Charles and distributed in thousands. For this Castelli was proclaimed by See also:Napoleon in the Moniteur, and had to seek See also:refuge in See also:Hungary. In 1815 he accompanied the See also:allies into See also:France as secretary to See also:Count Cavriani, and, after his return to Vienna, resumed his See also:official See also:post in connexion with the estates of See also:Lower See also:Austria. In 1842 he retired to his See also:property at Lilienfeld, where, surrounded by his notable collections of pictures and other See also:art treasures, he for the See also:rest of his See also:life devoted himself to literature. Castelli's dramatic See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent was characteristically Austrian; his plays were well constructed and effective and satirized unsparingly the foibles of the Viennese. But his wit was too See also:local and ephemeral to See also:appeal to any but his own See also:generation, and if he is remembered at all to-See also:day it is by his excellent Gedichte in niederosterreichischer Mundart (1828). He died at Lilienfeld on the 5th of See also:February 1862.
Castelli's Gesammelte Gedichte appeared in 1835 in 6 vols.; a selection of his Werke in 1843 in 15 vols. (2nd ed., 1848), followed by 6 supplementary volumes in 1858. His autobiography, Memoiren meines Lebens, appeared in 1861–1862 in 4 vols.
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