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COLLIN, HEINRICH JOSEPH VON (1771-1811)

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COLLIN, HEINRICH See also:JOSEPH VON (1771-1811) , See also:Austrian dramatist, was See also:born in See also:Vienna, on the 26th of See also:December 1771. He received a legal See also:education and entered the Austrian See also:ministry of See also:finance where he found speedy promotion. In 18o5 and in 1809, when See also:Austria was under the See also:heel of See also:Napoleon, Collin was entrusted with important See also:political See also:missions. In 1803 he was, together with other members of his See also:family, ennobled, and in 1809 made Hofrat. He died on the 28th of See also:July 181,. His tragedy See also:Regulus (1801), written in strict classical See also:form, was received with See also:enthusiasm in Vienna, where See also:literary See also:taste, less advanced than that of See also:North See also:Germany, was still under the See also:ban of See also:French classicism. But in his later dramas, Coriolan (1804), See also:Polyxena (1804), See also:Balboa (,8o6), Bianca della Porta (18o8), he made some See also:attempt to reconcile the pseudo-classic type of tragedy with that of See also:Shakespeare and the See also:German romanticists. As a lyric poet (Gedichte, collected 1812), Collin has See also:left a collection of stirring Wehrmannslieder for the fighters in the cause of Austrian freedom, as well as some excellent See also:ballads (Kaiser Max auf der Martinswand, See also:Herzog Leupold vor Solothurn). His younger See also:brother Matthaus von Collin (1779-1824), was, as editor of the Wiener Jahrbiicher See also:fur Literatur, an even more potent force in the literary See also:life of Vienna. He was, moreover, in sympathy with the Romantic See also:movement, and intimate with its leaders. His dramas on themes from Austrian See also:national See also:history (Belas Krieg mit dem Vater, 18o8, Der See also:Tod Friedrichs See also:des Streitbaren, 1813) may be regarded as the immediate precursors of See also:Grillparzer's See also:historical tragedies. His Gesammelte Werke appeared in 6 vols.

(1812–1814); he is the subject of an excellent monograph by F. Laban (1879). See also A. Hauffen, Das See also:

Drama der klassischen Periode, ii. 2 (1891), where a reprint of Regulus will be found. M. von Collin's Dramatische Dichtungen were published in 4 vols. (1815–1817) ; his Nachgelassene Schriften, edited by J. von See also:Hammer, in 2 vols. (1827). A study of his life and See also:work by J. Wihan will be found in Euphorson, Erganzungsheft, v. (1901).

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