Karl Tomaschek


Karl Tomaschek was an Austrian literary historian, best known for his writings on Friedrich Schiller.
He studied law at the University of Olmütz, and from 1851 attended lectures on history and philosophy at Vienna, where his instructors included Hermann Bonitz and Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert. In 1855 he obtained his habilitation and subsequently became a professor of German language and literature at the University of Graz. In 1858 he returned to the University of Vienna, where in 1871/72 he served as dean. In 1874 he became a full member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.

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