!!!Ayrenhoff, Cornelius von

b. Vienna, May 28, 1733, 
d. Vienna, Aug. 15, 1819, officer and dramatist, established 
classicist drama in Austria modelled on French drama and the ideals of 
J. C. Gottscheds and opposed the appropriation of the stage by 
the Viennese buffoon (Hanswurst); paved the way for Austrian patriotic 
poetry as practised later by H. von  Collin and F.  Grillparzer.

!Works
Tragedies: Aurelius, 1766; Hermanns Tod, 1768; Alceste, 1782. - 
Comedies: Der Postzug, 1769; Die grosse Batterie, 1770; Die gelehrte 
Frau, 1775. - Edition: Saemtl. Werke, 6 vols., 1789, %%sup 3/%1814.

!Literature
E. Horner, C. v. A., doctoral thesis, Vienna 
1984.



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