!!!Blumauer, Aloys auch A. Obermayer

b. Steyr (Upper Austria), Dec. 22, 1755, 
d. Vienna, March 16, 1798, writer. After 1780 employee at the Court 
Library; from 1781 published the  "Wiener Musen-Almanach" together 
with J. F. von  Ratschky  then 1793/1794 alone; 1782-1784 editor of 
the "Realzeitung", most important author during the Enlightenment 
under Emperor Joseph II, 1784-1786 editor of the "Journal fuer 
Freymaurer", 1787 in Berlin and Weimar, 1794 persecuted as a Jacobin; 
wrote mainly satirical poems about events of the time, anti-clerical 
poems, travesties and masonic poems.

!Works
Beobachtungen ueber Oe. Aufklaerung und Litteratur, 1782; Die 
Abentheuer des frommen Helden Aeneas, 1786. - Edition: Saemmtliche 
Werke, 9 vols.,1809.

!Literature
E. Rosenstrauch-Koenigsberg, Freimaurerei im josephin. 
Wien, 1974; L. Bodi, Tauwetter in Wien, %%sup 2/%1995.



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