Karl Eduard Arnd

Arnd Charles Edward ( born February 23, 1802 in Wągrowiec, † September 3, 1874 in Charlottenburg) was historian.

Life

Arnd studied at the universities of Breslau and Berlin and lived during the 1840s after a long travel for a time in Paris. Later he settled in Berlin, where he died at the age of 72 years on September 3, 1874 in Charlottenburg.

Reception

Arnd began his literary work with tragedies, but which mostly adaptations or derivative works were already well-known works. One example is William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, called the The two nobles in Venice was the inspiration for Arnds.

For the history of the world for kids and children of the teacher educators Karl Friedrich Becker Arnd wrote a sequel, from the French Revolution to the present day (1871 ); But the content and style this sequel was not enough to approach the quality of the original work.

Works

Non-fiction

• History of the origin and evolution of the French people. 3 volumes. Leipzig from 1844 to 1846.
• History of the French Revolution of 1789 until 1799. 6 volumes. Braunschweig 1851.
• History of the French national literature from the Renaissance to the Revolution. Berlin 1856.

Fiction

• The two nobles in Venice. A tragedy. Holy, Berlin 1828th
• Caesar and Pompey. A tragedy in 5 Acts of. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1833.
• The siblings of Rimini. A tragedy. Max, Wroclaw, 1829.
• Israelite poems. Stuttgart, 1829.

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• Author
• German
• Born in 1802
• Died in 1874
• Man