SEALSFIELD, CHARLES

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SEALSFIELD, CHARLES , the pseudonym of KARL ANTON POSTL (1793-1864), German novelist, who was born on the 3rd of March 1793 at Poppitz near

Znaim

ZNAIM (Czech Znojmo)

in Moravia. His schooling completed, he entered the Kreuzherrenorden in Prague, where he became a priest, but in the autumn of 1822 he fled to America, where he assumed the name of Charles Sealsfield. In 1826 he returned to Germany and published a book on America (Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika), which was followed by an outspoken criticism of Austria, written in English (Austria as it is, 1828) and published anonymously in London. Meanwhile he had returned to America, where he published his first novel, also in English, Tokeah, or the White Rose (1828). He now turned journalist, first in New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

and subsequently in Paris and London, as correspondent for various journals. In 1832 he settled in Switzerland, and in 186o purchased a small estate near Solothurn. Here he died on the 26th of May 1864. His will first revealed the fact that he was the former monk, Postl.
It is as a German novelist that he is best known. His Tokeah appeared in German under the title Der Legitime and die Republikaner (1838), and was followed by Der Virey and die Arislokraten (1835). Lebensbilder aus beiden Hemisphdren (1835-1837), Sturm-, Land- and Seebilder (1838), Das Kajiitenbuch, oder. Nationale Charakteristiken (1842). Sealsfield occupies an important position in the development of the German historical novel at a period when Scott's influence was beginning to wane. He endeavoured to widen the

scope

SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)

of historical fiction, to describe

great

GREAT

national and political movements, without forfeiting the sympathy of his readers for the individual characters of the story.
Sealsfield's Gesammelte Werke appeared in 18 vols. (18431846) ; his

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

novels are also to be obtained in modern reprints. See Kertbeny, Erinnerungen an Sealsfield (1864); L. Schmolle, Charles
Sealsfield (1875); L. Hamburger, Sealsfield-Postl, bisher unvero.$entlichte Briefe (1879); A. B. Faust, Charles Sealsfield, der Dwhter beider Hemisphdren (1896).

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