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Kralik, Richard, Ritter von Meyrswalden


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Richard von Kralik. Lithograph by T. Mayerhofer, 1847.




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 Götter- und Heldenbuch, 6 vols., 1900-1903; Kulturstudien, 4 vols., 1900-1907; Hausbrot. Märchen und Sagen, Ritter- und Räuber-, Hexen- und Wildschützen-Geschichten, 2 vols., 1907/1908; Ö. Geschichte, 31914; 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 ö. Schriftsteller an das Dritte Reich, 1988; ÖBL; NDB.


 
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