This 1924 second edition of Gustav Freytag's Aus Dem Staat Friedrichs des Grossen was edited by Karl Breul of Cambridge University. The original edition, published in 1877, was compiled by Wilhelm Wagner. Breul, whilst preserving the majority of Wagner's work, has edited and updated the text's notes, as well as appending a number of poems on Frederick the Great to Freytag's text. Gustav Freytag was a scholar of German antiquity, early German literature and the origins of German drama. He was also a journalist, biographer and historian with a fervent political mind. His Aus Dem Staat Friedrichs…mehr
This 1924 second edition of Gustav Freytag's Aus Dem Staat Friedrichs des Grossen was edited by Karl Breul of Cambridge University. The original edition, published in 1877, was compiled by Wilhelm Wagner. Breul, whilst preserving the majority of Wagner's work, has edited and updated the text's notes, as well as appending a number of poems on Frederick the Great to Freytag's text. Gustav Freytag was a scholar of German antiquity, early German literature and the origins of German drama. He was also a journalist, biographer and historian with a fervent political mind. His Aus Dem Staat Friedrichs des Grossen is a 'Picture of the German Past', a text where an individual's thoughts and motivations are imagined and presented within a historical framework. Freytag's text thus acts as an invaluable introduction to the life and characteristics of Frederick the Great and will appeal to students of German history and literature alike.
Gustav Freytag was a German novelist and playwright. Freytag was born in Kreuzburg (Kluczbork), Silesia. He joined the student corps Borussia zu Breslau. In 1839, he settled in Breslau as Privatdozent of German language and literature, but he devoted his primary attention to theatrical composition, finding significant success with the comic play Die Brautfahrt, or Kunz von der Rosen (1844). This was followed by a collection of insignificant poetry, In Breslau (1845), and the tragedies Die Valentine (1846) and Graf Waldemar (1847). He finally rose to prominence with his farce The Journalists (1852), which was one of the best German comedies of the nineteenth century. In 1847, he relocated to Berlin and, with Julian Schmidt, took over as editor of Die Grenzboten, a weekly publication founded in 1841 that had since become the principal instrument of German and Austrian liberalism. Freytag helped to run it until 1861, then again from 1867 until 1870, when he briefly published a new magazine, Im neuen Reich. In 1863, he developed Freytag's Pyramid.
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Introduction Some books of reference Freytag, Der Staat Friedrichs des Grossen Poems on Frederick the Great Notes.
