!!!Kralik, Richard, Ritter von Meyrswalden

b. Lenora, Czech Republic (then Eleonorenhain), Oct. 1, 1852, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 4, 1934, cultural and literary historian, dramatist 
and poet; brother of Mathilde  Kralik, father of Dietrich  Kralik and 
Heinrich  Kralik. As the spokesman of Catholicism in Austria he 
founded the  Gralbund, a conservative association of Catholic authors. 
Antiquity, the classical and the Romantic periods are the central 
points of his Christian-Germanic ideal. His extensive literary work is 
inspired by elements of regional literature and subjects from Old 
Germanic legends.

!Works
Das deutsche Goetter- und Heldenbuch, 6 vols., 1900-1903; 
Kulturstudien, 4 vols., 1900-1907; Hausbrot. Maerchen und Sagen, 
Ritter- und Raeuber-, Hexen- und Wildschuetzen-Geschichten, 2 vols., 
1907/1908; Oe. Geschichte, %%sup 3/%1914; Allg. Geschichte der 
neuesten Zeit von 1815 bis zur Gegenwart, 6 vols., 1915-1923 (with J. 
Weiss); Tage und Werke, 1922 (autobiography).

!Literature
F. Aspetsberger and A. Brandstetter (eds.), Der Anschluss 
oe. Schriftsteller an das Dritte Reich, 1988; OeBL; NDB.



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