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Franz Grillparzer

Died in 1872

Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), the son of a Viennese lawyer, pursued a career in the finance administration and from 1832 until his retirement in 1856 headed the archives of the Hofkammer, while writing the tragedies that made him the first Austrian dramatist. The failure of one of his comedies in 1838 led him to stop allowing his new works to be performed. Engaged in 1821 to Kathi Fröhlich, whom he never married, he lived with her and her sisters from 1849 until his death. Received into the Imperial Academy in 1847, appointed for life to the upper house in 1861, he was made an honorary citizen of Vienna in 1864.

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