Adalbert Stifter - Square in Frymburk (South Bohemia)
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The depicted bronze plaque dedicated to Adalbert Stifter, an Austrian writer living in South Bohemia and native of nearby Horní Planá, is located in a small park in the main square of town Frymburk...
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Location: Jihočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/07/2011
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The depicted bronze plaque dedicated to Adalbert Stifter, an Austrian writer living in South Bohemia and native of nearby Horní Planá, is located in a small park in the main square of town Frymburk.
Adalbert Stifter, born at Horní Planá in Bohemia on the 23rd of October 1805, was son of a linen weaver. Having studied at the University of Vienna, he became tutor to Richard, eldest son of Prince Metternich, and obtained in 1849 the appointment as school inspector with the title of Schulrat in Linz, where he lived until his death by injuries gained by slashing his own neck, 28th of January 1868. As early as 1840 Stifter had made his name known by his Feldblumen, a collection of charming little sketches, but his fame chiefly rests upon his Studien (1844-1851) in which he gathered together his early writings. These sketches of scenery and rural life are among the best and purest examples of German prose. Among other of his works may be cited Bunte Steine (1853), Nachsommer (1857), Witiko (1864-1867), and Briefe, which appeared posthumously in 1869.
The monument, depicted bronze plaque on granite from nearby Šumava mountains is work of Hans Rathauský from 1902.