biography
pronunciation:
[munt]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1808–61)
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| biography:
| Writer and journalist, born in Potsdam, EC Germany. A prominent member of the radical literary movement Junges Deutschland, as editor of various literary journals he campaigned against censorship. In 1848–50 he taught history and literature at the University of Breslau. His novels include Das Duett (1831), Madonna. Unterhaltungen mit einer Heiligen (1835, which was banned by the Prussian censors together with his related Charlotte Stieglitz, ein Denkmal of the same year), Thomas Müntzer (1841), and Graf Mirabeau (1858). He is best known for his writings on aesthetics and literary theory, notably Kritische Wälder (1833), Die Kunst der deutschen Prosa (1837), Geschichte der Literatur der Gegenwart (1842), Ästhetik (1845), and Dramaturgie (1848). |
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