Karl Tomaschek (28 September 1828 – 9 September 1878) was an Austrian

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, best known for his writings on

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright. He was born i ...

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Walther Killy Walther Killy (26 August 191728 December 1995) was a German literary scholar who specialised in poetry, especially that of Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. He taught at the Free University of Berlin, the Georg-August-Universität Götting ...

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Biography

Tomaschek was born on 28 September 1828 in

Jihlava Jihlava (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 55,000 inhabitants. Jihlava is the capital of the Vysočina Region, situated on the Jihlava (river), Jihlava River on the historical border between Moravia and Bohemia. Historically, Jihla ...

. He studied law at the

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, and from 1851 attended lectures on history and philosophy at

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, where his instructors included Hermann Bonitz and

Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert (25 March 1804, in Amsterdam – 10 January 1852, in Vienna) was a Dutch born, German historian and classical philologist. From 1821 he studied history and philology at the University of Bonn, where he was a pupil of ...

. In 1855 he obtained his

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and subsequently became a professor of

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and

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at the

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. In 1858 he returned to the University of Vienna, where in 1871–72 he served as dean. In 1874 he became a full member of the

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. Tomaschek died on 9 September 1878 in Bukovno (today integral part of Jihlava), at the age of 49.

Selected works

* ''Schiller und Kant'', 1857 – Friedrich Schiller and

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. * ''Schiller's Wallenstein'', (1858, 2nd edition 1886) – Schiller's ''Wallenstein''. * ''Schiller in seinem Verhältnisse zur Wissenschaft'', 1862 – Schiller and his relationship to science. * ''Die neuhochdeutsche classische Dichtung und die Literaturgeschichte'', 1875 – Modern

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classical poetry and literary history. * ''Johann Anton Leisewitz; ein beitrag zur geschichte der deutschen literatur im XVIII. jahrhundert'' (with Gregor Kutschera von Aichbergen, 1876) –

Johann Anton Leisewitz Johann Anton Leisewitz (9 May 1752 – 10 September 1806) was a German lawyer and dramatic poet, and a central figure of the Sturm und Drang era. He is best known for his play '' Julius of Taranto'' (1776), that inspired Friedrich Schiller and is ...

, a contribution to the history of German literature in the 18th century.HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works)

References

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