Karl Tomaschek

Karl Tomaschek (28 September 1828, in Iglau 9 September 1878, in Wetterhöfl, near Iglau) was an Austrian literary historian, best known for his writings on Friedrich Schiller.[1]

He studied law at the University of Olmütz, and from 1851 attended lectures on history and philosophy at Vienna, where his instructors included Hermann Bonitz and Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert. In 1855 he obtained his habilitation and subsequently became a professor of German language and literature at the University of Graz. 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 Vienna Academy of Sciences.[1][2]

Selected works

  • Schiller und Kant, 1857 Friedrich Schiller and Immanuel Kant.
  • 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 High German 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, a contribution to the history of German literature in the 18th century.[3]
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References

  1. Thibaut - Zycha / edited by Walther Killy Dictionary of German Biography
  2. Jakob Minor: ADB:Tomaschek, Karl in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 38 (1894), S. 433–437.
  3. HathiTrust Digital Library (published works)
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