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Adolf Friedrich von Schack
1815–1894
A German poet and literary scholar who also became one of the great champions of 19th-century art, he is remembered as much for the books he wrote as for the remarkable collection he built. His love of Spanish literature and Romantic painting gives his work an unusually wide cultural reach.
5 Audiobooks
Historia de la literatura y del arte dramático en España, tomo I
by Adolf Friedrich von Schack
Historia de la literatura y del arte dramático en España, tomo III
by Adolf Friedrich von Schack
Historia de la literatura y del arte dramático en España, tomo V
by Adolf Friedrich von Schack
Historia de la literatura y del arte dramático en España, tomo IV
by Adolf Friedrich von Schack
Historia de la literatura y del arte dramático en España, tomo II
by Adolf Friedrich von Schack
About the author
Born near Schwerin in 1815, Adolf Friedrich von Schack studied law before moving through careers in government and diplomacy. He eventually left official service to devote himself to literature, scholarship, and the arts, building a reputation as a poet and historian of literature.
Schack had a lasting interest in Spanish and especially Moorish culture, and he became known as a translator and interpreter of world literature as well as a writer in his own right. In 1855 he settled in Munich, where he joined the city’s intellectual life and developed close ties to artists and scholars.
He is also remembered as an important art collector and patron. The collection he assembled, with major works by leading 19th-century painters, later became the basis of Munich’s Sammlung Schack, which preserves the cultural world he helped shape. He died in Rome in 1894.