- Karoline Pichler
Karoline Pichler (7 September 1769 – 9 July 1843) was an
Austria n novelist. She was born inVienna 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, frequented by Beethoven, Schubert, and Grillparzer, among many others, from 1802 to 1824. As a young girl she had met Haydn, and she was a pupil of Mozart, who regularly performed music at the Greiners' residence. She died in Vienna in 1843 and was buried at the
Zentralfriedhof .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 toEdward 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).References
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*cite web
url = http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/women_in_german_yearbook/v023/23.1robertson.html
title = The Complexities of Caroline Pichler: Conflicting Role Models, Patriotic Commitment, and "The Swedes in Prague" (1827)
accessdate = 2008-10-05
last = Robertson
first = Ritchie
authorlink = Ritchie Robertson
year = 2007
work = Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature & Culture 23
publisher =University of Nebraska Press
pages = p. 34–48
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