Heinrich Joseph von Collin

Jeffrey L. High (California State University, Long Beach); Rebecca Stewart (Harvard University)

Ed. by Jill E. Twark, East Carolina University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.2: German-language Writing and Culture: Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, 800-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born c. 26 Dec 1771
Died Jul 1811
Activity 1799-1811

Places

Active in Austria; Germany

Activities

Primary

Playwright / Dramatist
Poet

Other

Letter-writer/ Diarist
Literary Critic/ Historian

Resources

Collin von's Works

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Austrian dramatist, poet, essayist, lawyer, and Ministry of Finance official Heinrich Joseph (Edler) von Collin II (1771/1772–1811) is best known for his pro-republican and anti-Napoleonic poetry and plays of mourning (

Trauerspiele

). His works, written in a liberal spirit, advocate for the right to republican autonomy in order to motivate his German-speaking contemporaries to resist French occupation of Austria under Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821). Collin was the author of ten dramas, most notable among them the occupation-liberation plays of mourning

Regulus

(1801),

Coriolan

(1802), and

Bianca della Porta

(1807), as well as a libretto to Shakespeare’s

Macbeth

(1809), for which Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) had agreed to write the music, but which never progressed beyond a…

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Citation: High, Jeffrey L., Rebecca Stewart. "Heinrich Joseph von Collin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 November 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13867, accessed 31 October 2024.]

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