Eduard Friedrich Ferdinand Castle astle(November 7, 1875 in

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– June 8, 1959 in Vienna) was an Austrian-

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and

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(''Literatur- &

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wissenschaftler''). He participated in the establishment of the

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. He taught as a

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(1945-). He retired in 1949.

Literary works

* ''Deutsch-österreichische Literaturgeschichte'', 1937 * ''Der große Unbekannte: Das Leben von Charles Sealsfield'', 1952

References

* http://www.adulteducation.at/de/historiografie/personen/217/ Linguists from Germany Linguists from Austria Germanists German literary critics Austrian literary historians German literary historians 1875 births 1959 deaths German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-historian-stub