!!!Beck, Karl Isidor, geb. 1817, Lyriker

b. Baja (Hungary), May 1, 1817, 
d. Waehring near Vienna (now ninth district), April 9, 1879, wrote 
poetry and epics in the time before the 1848 revolution ("Vormaerz" 
period). Influenced by N.  Lenau and L. Boerne; criticised social 
poverty among the proletariat in, e.g., the "Lament of the Poor Man" 
("Lieder vom armen Manne", 1846). Was responsible for the final title 
of the Blue Danube waltz by J. Strauss (in: "Gesammelte Gedichte", 
1844, %%sup 4/%1846).

!Further works
Jankó, der ungararische Rosshirt, 1841; Naechte. 
Gepanzerte Lieder, 1848.

!Literature
E. Thiel, K. B. literarische Entwicklung, doctoral thesis, 
Vienna 1938.



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