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HOUWALD, CHRISTOPH See also:ERNST, FREIHERR VON (1778–1845) , See also:German dramatist and author, was See also:born at Straupitz in See also:Lower See also:Lusatia, a son of the See also:president of the See also:district See also:court of See also:justice, on the 28th of See also:November 1778. He studied See also:law at the university of See also:Halle, and on completion of his See also:academic studies returned See also:home, married, and managed the See also:family estates. In 1516 he afforded a home to his friend K. W. S. Contessa (1777–1825), himself a poet, who had met with serious reverses of See also:fortune; Contessa lived with Houwald, assisting and stimulating him in his See also:literary See also:work, for eight years. In 1821 Houwald was unanimously elected See also:syndic for Lower Lusatia, an See also:office which placed him at the See also:head of the See also:administration of the See also:province. He died at Neuhaus, near See also:Lubben, on the 28th of See also:January 1845. Houwald is remembered as the author of several so-called " See also:Fate tragedies " (see GERMAN LITERATURE), of which the best known are See also:Des Bild, Per Leuchtturm, See also:Die Heimkehr, Fluch and Segen (all published in 1821). They have, however, small literary value, and Houwald is seen to better See also:advantage in his narratives and books for juvenile readers, such as Romantische Akkorde (pub]. by W. Contessa, See also:Berlin, 1817); Bitch. See also:fur Kinder gebildeter Stande (1819–1824); and See also:Jakob Thau, der Ilofnarr (1821). Houwald's collected See also:works, Sdmtliche Werke, were published in five volumes (See also:Leipzig, 1851; 2nd ed., 1858-1859).

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Minor, Die Schicksalstragodie in ihren Haupteertretern (Frankfurt, 1883), and Das Schicksalsdrama in Ki rschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, vol. cli. (See also:Stuttgart, 1884) ; O, Schmidtborn, C. E von Houwald als Drantatiker (1909).

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