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LAUBE, HEINRICH (1806–1884)

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LAUBE, HEINRICH (1806–1884) , See also:German dramatist, novelist and See also:theatre-director, was See also:born at Sprottau in See also:Silesia on the 18th of See also:September 1806. He studied See also:theology at See also:Halle and See also:Breslau (1826-1829), and settled in See also:Leipzig in 1832. Here he at once came into prominence with his See also:political essays, collected under the See also:title Das neue Jahrhunderl, in two parts—Polen (1833) and Politische Briefe (1833)—and with the novel Das junge See also:Europa, in three parts—See also:Die Poeten, Die Krieger, Die Biirger—(1833–1837). These writings, in which, after the See also:fashion of Heinrich See also:Heine and See also:Ludwig See also:Borne, he severely criticized the political regime in See also:Germany, together with the See also:part he played in the See also:literary See also:movement known as Das junge Deutschland, led to his being subjected to See also:police surveillance and his See also:works confiscated. On his return, in 1834, from a See also:journey to See also:Italy, under-taken in the See also:company of Karl See also:Gutzkow, Laube was expelled from See also:Saxony and imprisoned for nine months in See also:Berlin. In 1836 he married the widow of See also:Professor Hanel of Leipzig; almost immediately afterwards he suffered a See also:year's imprisonment for his revolutionary sympathies. In 1839 he again settled in Leipzig and began a literary activity as a playwright. See also:Chief among his earlier productions are the tragedies Monaldeschi (1845) and See also:Struensee (1847); the comedies Rokoko, See also:oder die See also:alien Herren (1846); See also:Gottsched and See also:Gellert (1847); and Die Karlsschuler (1847), of which the youthful See also:Schiller is the See also:hero. In x848 Laube was elected to the See also:national See also:assembly at Frankforton-See also:Main for the See also:district of Elbogen, but resigned in the See also:spring of 1849, when he was appointed See also:artistic director of the Hofburg theatre in See also:Vienna. This See also:office he held until 1867, and in this See also:period fall his finest dramatic productions, notably the tragedies See also:Graf See also:Essex (1856) and See also:Montrose (1859), and his See also:historical See also:romance Der deutsche Krieg (1865–1866, 9 vols.), which graphically pictures a period in the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War. In 1869 he became director of the Leipzig Stadttheater, but returned to Vienna in 1870, where in 1872 he was placed at the See also:head of the new Stadttheater; with the exception of a See also:short See also:interval he managed this theatre with brilliant success until his retirement from public See also:life in 1880. He has See also:left a valuable See also:record of his See also:work in Vienna and Leipzig in the three volumes Das Burgtheater (1868), Das norddeutsche Theater (1872) and Das Wiener Stadttheater (1875).

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pen was still active after his retirement, and in the five years preceding his See also:death, which took See also:place at Vienna on the 1st of See also:August 1884, he wrote the romances andnovels Die Bohminger (188o), Louison (1881), Der Schatten-Wilhelm (1883), and published an interesting See also:volume of reminiscences, Erinnerungen, 1841–1881 (1882). Laube's dramas are not remarkable for originality or for poetical beauty; their real and See also:great merit lies in their See also:stage-See also:craft. As a theatre-manager he has had no equal in Germany, and his services in this capacity have assured him a more lasting name in German literary See also:history than his writings. His Gesammelte Schriften (excluding his dramas) were published in 16 vols. (1875—1882) ; his Dramatische Werke, in 13 vols. (1845—1875) ; a popular edition of the latter in 12 vols. (1880—1892). An edition of Laube's Ausgewahlte Werke in Io vols. appeared in 1906 with an introduction by H. H. Houben. See also J. Proelss, Das junge Deutschland (1892); and H.

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des Schauspiels (vol. iii., 6th ed., 1901). L'AUBESPINE, a See also:French See also:family which sprang from See also:Claude de l'Aubespine, a lawyer of See also:Orleans and See also:bailiff of the See also:abbey of St Euverte in the beginning of the 16th See also:century, and rapidly acquired distinction in offices connected with the See also:law. Sebastien de 1'Aubespine (d. 1582), See also:abbot of Bassefontaine, See also:bishop of See also:Vannes and afterwards of See also:Limoges, fulfilled important See also:diplomatic See also:missions in Germany, See also:Hungary, See also:England, the See also:Low Countries and See also:Switzerland under See also:Francis I. and his successors. Claude (G. 1500-1567), See also:baron of See also:Chateauneuf-sur-See also:Cher, Sebastien's See also:brother, was a secretary of See also:finance; he had See also:charge of negotiations with England in 1555 and 1559, and was several times commissioned to treat with the See also:Huguenots in the See also:king's name. His son See also:Guillaume was a councillor of See also:state and See also:ambassador to England. See also:Charles de 1'Aubespine (1580-1653) was ambassador to Germany, the Low Countries, See also:Venice and England, besides twice holding the office of keeper of the See also:seals of See also:France, from 163o to 1633, and from r65o to 1651. The family See also:fell into poor circumstances and became See also:extinct in the 19th century.

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