August von Kotzebue

(1761-1819)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Kotzebue, August von, 1761-1819 LBT ID: AuKotze1819 VIAF ID: 14771963 LOC ID: n50000570	B/BAP: 1761-05-03 DIED: 1819-03-23
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German playwright mistakenly assassinated by a student believing that he was a Russian agent. His play Lovers' Vows figures prominently in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.
REFERENCES TO August von Kotzebue: Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 28 September 1813 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, [March 1815] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 3 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 60 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVIII. 1813 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R & T Sheridan II Found 1: ¶ 11 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1828 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)