Karoline Pichler
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Karoline Pichler (7 September 1769 - 9 July 1843) was an Austrian novelist. She was born in Vienna to Hofrat Franz von Greiner.
In 1796, Karoline married Andreas Pichler, a government official. For many years her salon was the centre of the literary life in the Austrian capital, where she died in 1843.
Her early works, Olivier, first published anonymously (1802), Idyllen (1803) and Ruth (1805), though displaying considerable talent, were immature. She made her mark in historical romance, and the first of her novels of this class, Agathocles (1808), an answer to Edward Gibbon's attack on that hero in his The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, attained great popularity. Among her other novels may be mentioned Die Belagerung Wiens (1824); Die Schweden in Prag (1827); Die Wiedereroberung Wiens (1829) and Henriette von England (1832). Her last work was Zeitbilder (1840).
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