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KLEIN, JULIUS LEOPOLD (1810–1876)

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KLEIN, See also:JULIUS See also:LEOPOLD (1810–1876) , See also:German writer of Jewish origin, was See also:born at See also:Miskolcz, in See also:Hungary. He was educated at the gymnasium in Pest, and studied See also:medicine in See also:Vienna and See also:Berlin. After travelling in See also:Italy and See also:Greece, he settled as a See also:man of letters in Berlin, where he remained until his See also:death on the 2nd of See also:August 1876. He was the author of many dramatic See also:works, among others the See also:historical tragedies Maria von See also:Medici (1841); Luines (1842); See also:Zenobia (1847); Moreto (1859); Maria (1860); See also:Strafford (1862) and Heliodora (1867); and the comedies DieHerzogin (1848) ; Ein Schutzling (1850) ; and See also:Voltaire (1862). The tendency of Klein as a dramatist was to become bombastic and obscure, but many of his characters are vigorously conceived, and in nearly all his tragedies there are passages of brilliant See also:rhetoric. He is chiefly known as the author of the elaborate though uncompleted Geschichte See also:des Dramas (1865–1876), in which he undertook to See also:record the See also:history of the See also:drama from the earliest times. He died when about to enter upon the Elizabethan See also:period, to the treatment of which he had looked forward as the See also:chief See also:part of his task. The See also:work, which is in thirteen bulky volumes, gives See also:proof of immense learning, but is marred by eccentricities of See also:style and See also:judgment. Klein's Dramatische Werke were collected in 7 vols. (1871–1872).

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