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Adalbert Stifter

Died in 1868

Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868), son of a Bohemian weaver and flax merchant who was killed under an overturned cart when the boy was twelve, was raised by the Benedictines of Kremsmünster, studied law in Vienna without finishing it and lived on lessons given in noble families; from 1843 to 1846 he tutored Metternich's son. He painted as much as he wrote, and from 1850 to 1865 he was inspector of primary schools in Upper Austria. He upheld a gentle law, the order of small things being preferable to great movements. Ill and melancholic, he took his own life in Linz.

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