August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue
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1761 – 1819
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Who was August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue?
August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue was a German dramatist and writer who also worked as a consul in Russia and Germany.
One of Kotzebue's books was burned during the Wartburg festival in 1817. He was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant member of the Burschenschaften. This murder gave Metternich the pretext to issue the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819, which dissolved the Burschenschaften, cracked down on the liberal press, and seriously restricted academic freedom in the states of the German Confederation.
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- Born
- May 3, 1761
Weimar - Also known as
- August von Kotzebue
- August Kotzebue
- Children
- Education
- Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
- University of Duisburg
- Died
- Mar 23, 1819
Mannheim
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on July 23, 2013
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