Joseph Rank

Joseph Rank studied at University of Vienna. The recorded working language is Czech and German. Residence is recorded at Frankfurt and Weimar. Employment is recorded with Vienna State Opera company and Wiener Stadttheater. Positions recorded include Member of the Frankfurt Parliament.

Rank was the son of a farmer; his father originally intended him to join the clergy. He studied philosophy and law in Vienna before beginning his literary career in the Oesterreichisches Morgenblatt, an Austrian newspaper. In 1848, he was elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly, where he was a moderate member of the liberal party. Rank moved between cities frequently, living in Stuttgart; Frankfurt; Weimar, where he founded and briefly led the journal Weimarer Sonntags-Blatt in 1855; and Nürnberg, where he served as the editor of Nürnberger Kurir. In 1861 he moved to Vienna and became the permanent administrative secretary of the Vienna Court Opera, then later the Vienna city theater. Throughout his writing, Rank recorded the culture and traditions of his Bohemian home, as well as wrote his own tales of "Böhmerwäldler" (inhabitants of the Bohemian Forest).

• Aus dem Böhmerwalde (1843); • Neue Geschichten aus dem Böhmerwalde (1847); • Eine Mutter vom Lande (1848); • Florian (1853, 2 kötet); • Geschichten armer Leute (1853); • Von Haus zu Haus (1855); • Achtspännig (1856, 2 kötet); • Aus Dorf und Stadt (1860, 2 kötet); • Ein Dorfbrutus (1861, 2 kötet); • Im Klosterhof (1875); • Der Seelenfänger (1876); • Der Hauskobold (1886) • Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben (Prague, 1896).

He also worked under the name J. The authorities additionally record the heading Josef Rank. His recorded languages were Czech and German.

Joseph Rank is recorded as writer, journalist, politician and poet.