Austrian author; born in Lemberg, Galicia, on the 27th of January 1835; studied at Prague and Gratz and was for a time teacher at the latter university, but soon gave himself up entirely to literature. With M. R. Armand he founded a review, which displayed sympathy for France, entitled Auf der Höhe, and in January, 1883, was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Besides two historical works, Der Aufstand in Gent unter König Karl V. (1857) and Ungarns Untergang und Maria von Oesterreich (1861), he published numerous novels, the best known of them being the series known as Cain’s Inheritance. He died in Lindheim, Hesse, on the 9th of March 1895. See also Seraph.
