Ignaz Franz Castelli
Illustration — Ignaz Franz Castelli; portrait by Friedrich von Amerling Ignaz Franz Castelli (6 March 1781 – 5 February 1862) was an Austrian dramatist born in Vienna. He studied law at university, and then entered government service. During the Napoleonic invasions his patriotism inspired him to write stirring war songs, one of which, Kriegslied für die österreichische Armee, was printed by order of the Archduke Charles of Austria and distributed in thousands.
Ignaz Franz Castelli
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- Died
- 1862. · Vienna.
- Occupation
- poet, translator, playwright, writer, animal protectionist, opinion journalist and librettist.
- Education
- Akademisches Gymnasium.
- Honours
- honorary citizen of Vienna.
- Languages
- German.
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Illustration — Ignaz Franz Castelli; portrait by Friedrich von Amerling Ignaz Franz Castelli (6 March 1781 – 5 February 1862) was an Austrian dramatist born in Vienna. He studied law at university, and then entered government service. During the Napoleonic invasions his patriotism inspired him to write stirring war songs, one of which, Kriegslied für die österreichische Armee, was printed by order of the Archduke Charles of Austria and distributed in thousands.
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For this Castelli was proclaimed by Napoleon in Le Moniteur, and had to seek refuge in Hungary. In 1815 he accompanied the allies into France as secretary to Count Cavriani, and, after his return to Vienna, resumed his official post in connection with the estates of Lower Austria. In 1842 he retired to his property at Lilienfeld, where, surrounded by his notable collections of pictures and other art treasures, he for the rest of his life devoted himself to literature. Castelli's dramatic talent was characteristically Austrian; his plays were well constructed, effective and satirized unsparingly the foibles of the Viennese. However, his wit was too local and ephemeral to appeal to any but his own generation, and if he is remembered at all today it is by his excellent Gedichte in niederösterreichischer Mundart (1828). He died in Lilienfeld on the 5th of February 1862, at the age of 80. Castelli's Gesammelte Gedichte ("Collected poems") appeared in 1835 in 6 vols; a selection of his Werke in 1843 in 15 vols. (2nd ed, 1848), followed by supplementary volumes in 1858. His autobiography, Memoiren meines Lebens, appeared in 1861–1862 in 4 volumes. He knew and worked with Ludwig van Beethoven as well as Franz Schubert.
Ignaz Franz Castelli studied at Akademisches Gymnasium. The recorded working language is German. Positions recorded include library director. Distinctions recorded are honorary citizen of Vienna.
Ignaz Franz Castelli (1781-1862), österreichischer Dichter und Schriftsteller
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Ignaz Franz Castelli (1781-1862), österreichischer Dichter und Schriftsteller,
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1780
Ignaz Franz Castelli was born in 1780 at Vienna.
1862
Ignaz Franz Castelli died in 1862 at Vienna.
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- 1.Vgl. T. G. Waidelich: „er soll’s Maul aufmachen“, Schubert im „Tagebuch aus Wien“ der Dresdner „Abend-Zeitung“ von Ignaz Franz Castelli. In: Schubert durch die Brille 18 (1997), S. 25–40.
- 2.Birgit Scholz: Biographie von Ignaz Vinzenz Franz Castelli (1781 bis 1862). Zs LiTheS der Uni Graz, Germanistisches Institut, 2008, im Internet Biographie von Ignaz Vinzenz Franz Castelli (1781 bis 1862) und Biographie von Ignaz Vinzenz Franz Castelli (PDF) abgerufen am 4. Juni 2015
- 3.Klaus Martin Kopitz, Rainer Cadenbach (Hrsg.) u. a.: Beethoven aus der Sicht seiner Zeitgenossen in Tagebüchern, Briefen, Gedichten und Erinnerungen. Band 1: Adamberger – Kuffner. Hrsg. von der Beethoven-Forschungsstelle an der Universität der Künste Berlin. Henle, München 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2, S. 181–183.
- 4.viennatouristguide.at
- 5.ANNO ptb 23 06 1895 10 Das Grab eines Vergessenen
- 6.I. F. Castelli: Memoiren meines Lebens. 4. Bd. Wien 1861, S. 401 (Google Buch).
- 7.ANNO wtv 1862 6 Ignaz Franz Castelli anno-plus=ja
- 8.Aus dem Leben eines Wiener Phäaken 1781-1862. Die Memoiren des I. F. Castelli. Neu herausgegeben von Adolf Saager, 2. Auflage, Verlag Robert Lutz, Stuttgart 1912, 3. Auflage, Stuttgart 1927. Im Faksimile von der Library of the University of Toronto online und zum Download zugänglich gemacht, Ignaz Franz Castelli, abgerufen am 4. Juli 2014. In dieser Ausgabe ist der Text der originalen Ausgabe von 1861 chronologisch mit Kürzungen des Nebensächlichen und mancher Wiederholungen neugeordnet, vgl. Saagers Einleitung, S. 20.
- 9.In Schillers Distichon „Donau in **“ ist Wien verschwiegen: Mich umwohnt mit glänzendem Aug’ das Volk der Phaiaken:/ Immer ist’s Sonntag, es dreht immer am Herd sich der Spieß (zit. nach Gesamtausgabe, 1. Band, Zahme Xenien)
- 10.Rebecca Unterberger: Vom Diarium zur Zeitung: Wiener Zeitung auf litkult1920er.aau.at, verfasst März 2017, redaktionell ergänzt Februar 2019
- 11.Ignaz Franz Castelli. Mit Portrait. Cassel 1854, S. 13.
- 12.I. F. Castelli: Wohlgemeinte Worte an Oesterreichs Landvolk über die jetzt allgemein herrschende Seuche Cholera morbus […]. Wien: Strauß’ Witwe 1831. (Digitalisat)
- 13.Ignaz Franz Castelli: Roderich und Kunigunde! oder: Der Eremit vom Berge Prazzo, oder: Die Windmühle auf der Westseite, oder: Die triumphirende Unschuld. Mathias Schmidt, Wien 1807 ( ).
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