Author: Grun, Anastastus [Gruen, Anastastus] [pseudonym of Auersperg, Anton (1806-1876)]
Title: Nibelungen im frack. Ein gedicht
Description: Leipzig, Weidmann, 1843. boards. 18x12cm, xi,99 pp, 19th-Century binder's blind leather-backed boards. Corners heavily rubbed. Spine heavily scuffed.. Text heavily foxed. Binding heavily rubbed. Just Good. ¶ Tears to exterior hinges. Spine chipped. [Pseudonym for Anton Alexander ( Maria), Count von Auersperg, an Austrian poet... He received his earliest training at the Theresian academy, at Vienna, and later studied philosophy and jurisprudence at Vienna and Graz. From 1831 on he was occupied with the care of his paternal estates at Thurn.. his poems had made him famous as a champion of liberalism, and he had entered the political field. In 1848 he was elected a member of the National Assembly at Frankfort. Disappointed in his expectations, he withdrew and retired to private life, from whence he did not emerge until.. Austria had become a constitutional State. He was appointed a life member of the Austrian Reichsrat serving at the same time first as a member of the Carniolan and then of the Styrian diet. His first collection of lyric poems, "Blatter der Liebe", appeared in 1830.. But fame came to from through his political poems, the first collection of which appeared anonymously in 1831 under the title of " Spaziergange eines Wiener Poeten". It was a severe arraignment of the oppressive conditions prevailing under the regime of Metternich, and created a sensation among all classes. The next collection, "Schutt" (" Ruins"--1835), was also political in tendency.. His two humorous poems, " Nibelungen im Frack" (1843) and "Der Pfaff vom Kahlenberg" (1850) were never really popular.." [- Catholic Encyclopedia]

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