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REDWITZ, OSKAR, FREIHERR VON (1823-1891)

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REDWITZ, OSKAR, FREIHERR VON (1823-1891) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at Lichtenau, near See also:Ansbach, on the 28th of See also:June 1823. Having studied at the See also:universities of See also:Munich and See also:Erlangen, he was apprenticed to the See also:law in the Bavarian See also:State service (1846-49). He next (1849-50) studied See also:languages and literature at See also:Bonn, and in 1851 was appointed See also:professor of See also:aesthetics and of the See also:history of literature at See also:Vienna. In 1852, however, he gave up this See also:post and retired to his See also:estate of Schellenberg, near See also:Kaiserslautern. The pious sentimentality of his romantic epic See also:Amaranth (1849; 42nd ed., 1898) had already gained him enthusiastic admirers, and this See also:work was followed, in 1850, by Ein Marchen and by Gedichte (1852) and the tragedy Sieglinde (1854). He next settled on his estates near Kronach, and here wrote the tragedy See also:Thomas Morus (1856), the See also:historical dramas Philippine See also:Welser (1859) and Der Zunftmeister von Nurnberg (186o), of which the first two met with See also:great success. Elected member of the Bavarian Second Chamber for the See also:district in which he lived, he removed to Munich in 1862. In 1868 he published the novel See also:Hermann See also:Stark, deutsches Leben, and in 1871 Das Lied vom neuen deutschen Reich (which contains several See also:hundred patriotic sonnets). In 1872 he took up his See also:residence at See also:Meran, but passed the last years of his See also:life at a See also:sanatorium for See also:nervous disorders near See also:Bayreuth, where he died on the 6th of See also:July 1891. See R. See also:Prutz, See also:Die deutsche Literatur der Gegenwart (1870), i. pp. 148 ff.

; H. Keiter, Zeitgenossische katholische Dichter See also:

Deutsch-lands (1884) ; H. von Volderndorff, Harmlose Plaudereien eines See also:alten Miincheners (1892); M. M. Rabenlechner, O. von Redwitz' religioser Entwicklungsgang (1897).

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