!!!Schaukal, Richard

Schaukal, Richard, b. Brno, Czech Republic (then Bruenn), May 27, 1874, 
d. Vienna, Oct. 10, 1942, writer, translator, literary critic, studied 
law. From 1903 on the executive committee of the ministerial council 
in Vienna, then head of a division and head of the executive committee 
in the Ministry of Labour, took early retirement in 1918 and worked as 
a free-lance writer. His poetic works were influenced by French 
symbolism, the neo-Romantic and by H. Heine and show a traditional 
understanding of art; emotiona-laden, melancholic poems and prose 
marked by cultural pessimism.

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Edition: works in separate editions, ed. by L. Schaukal and J. 
Schondorff, 6 vols., 1965-1967.

!Literature
M. Maurer, Sprache und Stil in der erzaehlenden Prosa 
R. v. S., doctoral thesis, Innsbruck 1971; C. Warum, R. 
v. S. als Kritiker und Uebersetzer aus dem Franzoesischen, 
3 vols., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1993; D. Pietzcker, R. v. 
S. Ein oesterreichischer Dichter der Jahrhundertwende, 1997; OeBL.



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