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RAUPACH, See also:ERNST See also:BENJAMIN SALOMO (1784-1852) , See also:German dramatist, was See also:born on the 21st of May 1784 at Straupitz, near See also:Liegnitz in See also:Silesia, a son of the See also:village pastor. He attended the gymnasium at Liegnitz, and studied See also:theology at the university of See also:Halle. In 1804 he obtained a tutorship in St See also:Petersburg. He preached at times in the German Lutheran See also:church, wrote his first tragedies, and in 1817 was appointed See also:professor of German literature and See also:history at a training See also:college in connexion with the university. Owing to an outburst of See also:jealousy against Germans in See also:Russia, culminating in See also:police supervision, Raupach See also:left St Petersburg in 1822 and undertook a See also:journey to See also:Italy. The See also:literary fruits of his travels were Hirsemenzels Briefe aus and fiber Italien (1823). He next visited See also:Weimar, but, being coldly received by See also:Goethe, abandoned his See also:idea of living there and settled in 1824 in See also:Berlin. Here he spent the See also:remainder of his See also:life, See also:writing for the See also:stage, which for twenty years he greatly influenced, if not wholly controlled, in the Prussian See also:capital. He died at Berlin on the 18th of See also:March 1852. Raupach was a prolific writer of both tragedies and comedies; of the former, See also:Die Fursten Chawansky (1818), Der Liebe Zauherkreis (1824), Die Leibeigenen, See also:oder Isidor and See also:Olga (1826), Rafaele (1828), Der Nibelungenhort (1834) and Die Schule See also:des Lebens (1841), and of the latter Die Schleichhandler (1828) and Der Zeitgeist (1830) are pieces which have enjoyed See also:great popularity owing to their skilful dramatic handling. On the other See also:hand, the See also:historical dramas with which his name is chiefly associated, Die See also:Hohenstaufen (1837–38), a cyclus of 15 dramatic pieces founded on See also:Friedrich von See also:Raumer's Geschichte der Hohenstaufen, as also the trilogy See also:Cromwell (1841–44), are superficial in treatment. Raupach had a great knowledge of theatrical effect and situations, but he contorts historical facts in See also:order to suit his See also:political See also:hobby, which was the separation of church and See also:state.

Raupach's collected dramas appeared under the See also:

title Dramatische Werke ernster Gattung (16 vols.,' 1830–43) and Dramatische Werke komischer Gatiung (4 vols., 1829–35). For his life see Pauline Raupach, Raupach, eine biographische Skizze (1853); also K. Goedeke, Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung, 2nd ed. (19135), vol. viii., pp. 646–668.

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