Enk von der Burg, Michael#
b. Vienna, Jan. 29, 1788, d. Melk (Lower Austria, suicide), June 11, 1843, Benedictine monk, writer, literary theorist, friend of E. von Feuchtersleben, A. Stifter, F. Grillparzer, E. von Bauernfeld and N. Lenau. Wrote the aesthetic study "Melpomene oder: Ueber das tragische Interesse" (1827) as well as other writings such as "Ueber die Freundschaft", 1840, and others.
Further works#
Ueber den Umgang mit uns selbst, 1829; Briefe ueber Goethes Faust, 1834; Studien ueber Lope de Vega, 1839. - Novels: Don Tiburzio, 1831; Dorats Tod, 1833.