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SCHUBART, See also:CHRISTIAN See also:FRIEDRICH See also:DANIEL (1739-1791) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at Obersontheim in See also:Swabia (now the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg) on the 24th of See also:March 1739, and entered the university of See also:Erlangen in 1758 as a student of See also:theology. He led a dissolute See also:life, and after two years' stay was summoned See also:home by his parents. After attempting to See also:earn a livelihood as private See also:tutor and as assistant preacher, his musical talents gained him the See also:appointment of organist in See also:Geislingen, and subsequently in See also:Ludwigsburg; but in consequence of his See also:wild life and See also:blasphemy, which found expression in a See also:parody of the See also:litany, he was expelled the See also:country. He then visited in turn See also:Heilbronn, See also:Mannheim, See also:Munich and See also:Augsburg. In the last-named See also:town he made a considerable stay, began his Deutsche Chronik (1774-1778) and eked out a subsistence by reciting from the latest See also:works of prominent poets. Owing to a See also:bitter attack upon the See also:Jesuits, he was expelled from Augsburg and fled to See also:Ulm,where he was arrested in 1777 and confined in the fortress of See also:Hohenasperg. Here he met with lenient treatment, and he beguiled the See also:time by a study of mystical works and in composing See also:poetry. His Samtliche Gedichte appeared in two volumes at See also:Stuttgart in 1785-1786 (new edition by G. See also:Hauff, See also:Leipzig, 1884, in Reclam's Universal-Bibliothek); in this collection most of the pieces are characterized by the bombast of the " See also:Sturm and Drang " See also:period. He was set at See also:liberty in 1787, at the instance of See also:Frederick the See also:Great, See also:king of See also:Prussia, and expressed his gratitude in Hymnus auf Friedrich den Grossen. Schubart was now appointed musical director and manager of the See also:theatre at Stuttgart, where he continued his Deutsche Chronik and began his autobiography, Schubarts Lebenr and Gesinnungen (2 vols., 1791-1793), but:before its completion he died at Stuttgart on the loth of See also:October 1791. His Gesammelte Schriften and Schicksale appeared in 8 vols.

(Stuttgart, 1839-1840). See D. F. See also:

Strauss, Schubarts Leben in seinen Briefen (2 vols., 1849; 2nd ed., 1878); G. Hauff, Christian Daniel Schubart (1885); and E. Nagele, Aus Schubarts Leben and Wirken (1888).

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