Dingelstedt, FRANZ VON, German poet, born near Berburg in 1814, was royal librarian at Würtemberg in 1843-50, intendant of the court theatres at Munich, Weimar, and Vienna in 1850-71, and afterwards director of the Burg Theatre in Vienna. He was ennobled by the Austrian emperor, and died 15th May 1881. Besides several volumes of poems, displaying great versatility and considerable power, he published a series of novels, one fine tragedy (Das Haus der Barneveldt), essays, and translations and studies of Shakespeare. His collected works fill 12 vols. (1877).
Dingelstedt, FRANZ VON
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 824
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