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DINGELSTEDT, FRANZ VON (1814-1881)

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DINGELSTEDT, See also:FRANZ VON (1814-1881) , See also:German poet and dramatist, was See also:born at Halsdorf, in See also:Hesse See also:Cassel, on the 3oth of See also:June 1814. Having studied at the university of See also:Marburg, he became in 1836 a See also:master at the See also:Lyceum in Cassel, from which he was ;transferred to See also:Fulda in 1838. In 1839 he produced a novel, Unter der Erde, which obtained considerable success, and in 1841 published the See also:book by which he is best remembered, the Lieder eines kosmopolitischen Nachtwachters. These poems, animated as they are by a spirit of See also:bitter opposition to everything that savours of despotism, were an effective contribution to the See also:political See also:poetry of the See also:day. The popularity of this book determined Dingelstedt to take up a.See also:literary career, and in 1841 he obtained an See also:appointment on the See also:staff of the Augsburger allgemeine Zeitung. In 1843, however, the satirist of German princes accepted, to the See also:general surprise, the appointment of private librarian to the See also:king of See also:Wurttemberg, and in the same See also:year he married the celebrated Bohemian See also:opera See also:singer, Jenny Lutzer. In 1845 he published a See also:volume of poems, some of which, treating of See also:modern See also:life, possessed See also:great literary rather than strictly poetical merit. A subsequent collection, published in 1852, attracted little See also:attention. The success of his tragedy Das Haus der Barneveldt (185o) obtained for him the position of See also:intendant at the See also:court See also:theatre at See also:Munich, where he soon became the centre of literary society. He incurred, however, the animosity of the Jesuit clique at the court, and in 1856 was suddenly dismissed on the most frivolous charges. A similar position was offered to him at See also:Weimar through the See also:influence of See also:Liszt, and he remained there until 1867. His See also:administration was , most successful, and he especially distinguished himself by presenting all See also:Shakespeare's See also:historical plays upon the See also:stage in an unbroken See also:cycle.

In 1867 he became director of the court opera See also:

house in See also:Vienna, and in 187.2 of the Hofburgtheater, :a position he held until his See also:death on the 15th of May 1881. Among his other See also:works may be noticed an autobiographical See also:sketch of his Munich career, entitled See also:Manchester 276 Bilderbogen (1879), See also:Die Amazone, an See also:art novel of considerable merit (1869), See also:translations of several of Shakespeare's comedies, and several writings dealing with questions of See also:practical dramaturgy. He was ennobled in 1867 by the king of See also:Bavaria and in 1876 was created Freiherr by the See also:emperor of See also:Austria. Dingelstedt's Samtliche Werke appeared in 12 vols. (1877-1878), but this edition is far from See also:complete. On his life see, besides the autobiography mentioned above, J. Rodenberg, Heimaterinnerungen an F. Dingelstedt (See also:Berlin, 1882), and by the same author, F. Dingelstedt, Blatter aus seinem Nachlass (2 vols., 1891). Also an See also:essay by A. Stern in Zur Literatur derGegenwart (See also:Leipzig, 1880).

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