!!!Meissner, Leopold Florian

b. Vienna, June 10, 1835, 
d. Vienna, April 29, 1895, writer. Police officer, then legal 
counsel. Depicts Viennese society before 1900 in a documentary, 
dispassionate style. His tale "Der Evangelimann" served W.   
(see) Kienzl as the basis for his opera of the same name.

!Works
Aus den Papieren eines Polizei-Kommissaers, 5 vols., 1892; 
Weihnachtsspiele, 1896.

!Literature
OeBL.



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