!!!Frankl-Hochwart, Ludwig August Ritter von

b. Chrást (Czech Republic), Feb. 3, 1810, 
d. Vienna, March 12, 1894, liberally oriented author and physician; 
father of Lothar Ritter von  Frankl-Hochwart. Head of the Vienna 
Musikverein and professor of aesthetics; board member of the Vienna 
Jewish Community. From 1842-1848 published the "Sonntagsblaetter", 
which he had founded. In the framework of the academic legion  
Akademische Legion he participated in the revolution of 1848 and wrote 
the first handbill poem which was not censored ("Die Universitaet"). 
He was a friend of N.  Lenau and A.  Gruen.

!Works
Das Habsburglied, 1832 (collection of ballads); Christophoro 
Colombo, 1836; Don Juan d'Austria, 1846 (hist. epics). - Biograph. 
notes on A. Gruen, F. Grillparzer, F. Raimund, N. Lenau, F. Hebbel and 
F. v. Amerling. - Edition: Gesammelte poetische Werke, 3 vols., 1880.

!Literature
S. Dollar, Die Sonntagsblaetter von L. A. F., doctoral 
thesis, Vienna 1932; OeBL.



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