Hermann Schmid

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hermann von Schmid (30 March 1815 – 19 October 1880) was an Austrian writer and theatre director.

He was born in Waizenkirchen (at that time still in Bavaria) and studied law in Munich, where he obtained his doctorate and entered the judiciary. He began his literary career as a dramatist with Camoëns and Bretislav (1843), which caught the attention of Ludwig I and led to a position at the court theatre. After the Revolution of 1848, his support for Johannes Ronge and the failure of his marriage caused him professional difficulties and he was obliged to retire from the service, moving into a two-storey house at the head of the Tegernseer Landstraße in the south-east of the city. He obtained great popularity in the 1860s as a prolific writer of historical novels based on events in Austrian and Bavarian history. He was granted the Order of St Michael in 1869, the next year was appointed director of the Volkstheater on Gärtnerplatz, and was ennobled in 1876. His most ambitious work was his lyric epic Winland oder die Fahrt um's Glück (1877). He died in Munich, where today a street bears his name.

Bibliography

Holland, Hyacinth (1890), "Schmid, Hermann", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German) 31, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 664–670

Persondata
Name	Schmid, Hermann
Alternative names
Short description	Austrian writer
Date of birth	30 March 1815
Place of birth
Date of death	19 October 1880
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.