WRITER

Franz von Schober

1796 - 1882

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Franz Adolf Friedrich Schober, since 1801 von Schober (born 17 May 1796, Torup Castle at Malmö, Sweden; died 13 September 1882 in Dresden), was a poet, librettist, lithographer, actor in Breslau and Legationsrat in Weimar. Schober was born to Austrian parents in Sweden. Educated in the Schnepfenthal Salzmann School, Akademisches Gymnasium (Vienna) and Kremsmünster Abbey, he returned to Vienna, where he began to study philosophy and met the composer Franz Schubert, his friends Johann Mayrhofer, Joseph von Spaun and the painters Leopold Kupelwieser and Moritz von Schwind. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz von Schober has received more than 62,791 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Franz von Schober is the 4,394th most popular writer (down from 4,007th in 2019).

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Among writers, Franz von Schober ranks 4,394 out of 7,302. Before him are Garlieb Merkel, Arthur Golden, Raphael Holinshed, Anne Bradstreet, Olivier de Serres, and Robert Chambers. After him are Mario Rigoni Stern, Roderich Menzel, Charles Brockden Brown, Richard Steele, Graham Swift, and Vasily Lebedev-Kumach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Franz von Schober ranks 54. Before him are Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, Francis Crozier, Immanuel Hermann Fichte, Stefano Franscini, William H. Prescott, and Karl Leberecht Immermann. After him are Wilhelm Hemprich, Pyotr Anjou, Joseph Meyer, Frederick William Beechey, Phan Thanh Giản, and John M. Clayton. Among people deceased in 1882, Franz von Schober ranks 59. Before him are Carl Robert Jakobson, Theodor Kullak, Henry Cole, Antoine Bussy, Ernest Courtot de Cissey, and Juraj Dobrila. After him are Julius Hübner, Alexander Gardner, Katarina Ivanović, Charles Wyville Thomson, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, and Ion Andreescu.

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