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SPIESS, CHRISTIAN HEINRICH (1755-1799)

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SPIESS, See also:CHRISTIAN HEINRICH (1755-1799) , See also:German writer of romances, was See also:born at See also:Freiberg in See also:Saxony on the 4th of See also:April 1755. For a See also:time an actor, he was appointed in 1788 controller on the See also:estate of a certain See also:Count Kiinigl at.Betzdikau in Bohemia, where he died, almost insane, the result of his weird fancies, on the 17th of See also:August 1799. Spiess, in his See also:Ritter-, Rduber- and Geister-Romane, as they are called—stories of knights, robbers and ghosts of the " dark " ages—the See also:idea of which he borrowed from See also:Goethe's GOaz' von See also:Berlichingen and See also:Schiller's Rduber and Geisterseher, was the founder of the German Schauerroman (shocker), a See also:style of See also:writing continued, though in a finer vein, by Karl Gottlob See also:Cramer (1758-1817) and by Goethe's See also:brother-in-See also:law, Christian August See also:Vulpius. These stories, though appealing largely to the vulgar See also:taste, made Spiess one of the most widely read authors of his See also:day. The most popular was a See also:ghost See also:story of the 13th centtiry, Das Petermdnnchen (1793) among others were Der alte Uberall and Nirgends (1792); See also:Die Lowenritter (1794), and Hans Heiling, vierter and letzter See also:Regent der Erd- Luft- Feuer- and Wasser-Geister (1798). Beside numerous comedies, Spiess wrote, anticipating Schiller, a tragedy Maria See also:Stuart (1784), which was in the same See also:year performed at the See also:court See also:theatre in See also:Vienna. See Karl Goedeke, Grundriss, v. 506 sqq. ; See also:Muller-Fraureuth, Die Ritter- and Rduberromane (See also:Halle, 1894).

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