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SCHACK, ADOLF See also:FRIEDRICH, See also:GRAF VON (1815-1894) , See also:German poet and historian of literature, was See also:born at Brusewitz near See also:Schwerin on the 2nd of See also:August 1815. Having studied See also:jurisprudence (1834–1838) at the See also:universities of See also:Bonn, See also:Heidelberg and See also:Berlin, he entered the See also:Mecklenburg See also:State service and was subsequently attached to the " Kammergericht " in Berlin. Tiring of See also:official See also:work, he resigned his See also:appointment, and after travelling in See also:Italy, See also:Egypt and See also:Spain, was attached to the See also:court of the See also:grand See also:duke of See also:Oldenburg, whom he accompanied on a See also:journey to the See also:East. On his return he entered the Oldenburg See also:government service, and in 1849 was sent as See also:envoy to Berlin. In 1852 he retired from his See also:diplomatic See also:post, resided for a while on his estates in Mecklenburg and then travelled in Spain, where he studied Moorish See also:history. In 1855, he settled at See also:Munich, where he was made member of the See also:academy of sciences, and here collected a splendid See also:gallery of pictures, containing masterpieces of See also:Genelli, See also:Feuerbach, See also:Schwind, Bdcklin, See also:Lenbach, &c., and which, though bequeathed by him to the See also:Emperor See also:William II., still remains at Munich and is one of the noted galleries in that See also:city. He died at See also:Rome on the 14th of See also:April 1894. Schack was a most productive author; he wrote lyric poems (Gedichte, 1867, 6th ed. 1888) ; novels in See also:verse, Durch alle Wetter (187o, 3rd ed. 1875) and Ebenbiirtig (1876) ; the dramatic poem Helidor (1878); the tragedies See also:Die Pisaner (1872) and Walpurga and Der Johanniter (1887); and the See also:political comedies, Der Kaiserbote and Cancan (1873). As an historian of literature• and See also:art, he published Geschichte der dramatischen Literatur and Kunst in Spanien (3 vols. 1845-1846, 2nd ed.

1854), Poesie and Kunst der Araber in Spanien and Sicilien (1865, 2nd ed. 1877), which are valuable contributions to See also:

literary history. He also produced some excellent See also:translations, e.g. Spanisches Theater (1845) ; Heldensagen See also:des Firdusi (1851) and Stimmen vom See also:Ganges (1857, 2nd ed. 1877). He also compiled the See also:catalogue and history of his own picture gallery, Meine Gemaldesammlung (7th ed., 1894). His collected See also:works, Gesammelte Werke, were published in six volumes (1883, 3rd ed. in to vols. 1897-1899). Nachgelassene Dichtungen were edited by G. Winkler (1896). See his autobiography, Ein halbes Jahrhundert, Erinnerungen and Aufzeichnungen (3 vols. 1887, 3rd ed.

1894). Cf. further the accounts of Schack by F. W. Rogge (1883), E. Zabel (1885), E. Brenning (1885), W. J. Mannsen (from the Dutch, 1889), and also L. See also:

Berg, Zwischen zwei Jahrhunderten (1896).

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