!!!Rollett, Hermann

Rollett, Hermann, b. Baden (Lower Austria), Aug. 20, 1819, 
d. Baden (Lower Austria), May 30, 1904, poet, playwright and narrative 
writer, nephew of Georg Anton  Rollett, uncle of Alexander  Rollett. 
Belonged to the circle of liberal republican authors of the Vormaerz 
prerevolutionary period (1815-1848), 1845-1854 emigrated to Germany 
and Switzerland for political reasons; from 1876 head of the Municipal 
Archives of Baden.

!Works
political poetry: Fruehlingsboten aus Oe., 1845; Wanderbuch 
eines Wr. Poeten, 1846; Kampflieder, 1848; Republikan. Liederbuch, 
1848 (ed.); Metternich, 1848. - Autobiography: Begegnungen. 
Erinnerungsblaetter 1819-99, 1903. - Editions: Dramat. Dichtungen, 3 
vols., 1851; Erzaehlende Dichtungen, 1872.

!Literature
J. Kamptner, H. R., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1927; 
OeBL.



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