RAUPACH, ERNST BENJAMIN SALOMO (1784-1852)

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RAUPACH, ERNST BENJAMIN SALOMO (1784-1852) , German dramatist, was born on the 21st of May 1784 at Straupitz, near

Liegnitz

LIEGNITZ

in Silesia, a son of the

village

VILLAGE

pastor. He attended the gymnasium at

Liegnitz

LIEGNITZ

, and studied theology at the university of

Halle

. In 1804 he obtained a tutorship
in St

Petersburg

PETERSBURG

. He preached at times in the German Lutheran church, wrote his first tragedies, and in 1817 was appointed professor of German literature and history at a training college in connexion with the university. Owing to an outburst of jealousy against Germans in Russia, culminating in police supervision, Raupach left St

Petersburg

PETERSBURG

in 1822 and undertook a journey to Italy. The literary fruits of his travels were Hirsemenzels Briefe aus and fiber Italien (1823). He next visited

Weimar

WEIMAR

, but, being coldly received by Goethe, abandoned his idea of living there and settled in 1824 in Berlin. Here he spent the remainder of his life, writing for the stage, which for twenty years he greatly influenced, if not wholly controlled, in the Prussian

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

. He died at Berlin on the 18th of

March

1852.
Raupach was a prolific writer of both tragedies and comedies; of the former, Die Fursten Chawansky (1818), Der Liebe Zauherkreis (1824), Die Leibeigenen, oder Isidor and Olga (1826), Rafaele (1828), Der Nibelungenhort (1834) and Die Schule des Lebens (1841), and of the latter Die Schleichhandler (1828) and Der Zeitgeist (1830) are pieces which have enjoyed

great

GREAT

popularity owing to their skilful dramatic handling. On the other hand, the historical dramas with which his name is chiefly associated, Die Hohenstaufen (183738), a cyclus of 15 dramatic pieces founded on

Friedrich

FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

von Raumer's Geschichte der Hohenstaufen, as also the trilogy Cromwell (184144), are superficial in treatment. Raupach had a

great

GREAT

knowledge of theatrical effect and situations, but he contorts historical facts in order to suit his political

hobby

HOBBY

, which was the separation of church and state.
Raupach's collected dramas appeared under the title Dramatische Werke ernster Gattung (16 vols.,' 183043) and Dramatische Werke komischer Gatiung (4 vols., 182935). For his life see Pauline Raupach, Raupach, eine biographische Skizze (1853); also K. Goedeke, Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung, 2nd ed. (19135), vol. viii., pp. 646668.

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