Victor Suppantschitsch | |
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| Born | 31 October 1838 |
| Died | 2 March 1919 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | Austrian |
Victor Suppantschitsch (1838-1919) was an Austrian lawyer and philatelist. He retired in 1906 as president of the Senate of the Supreme Court of Cassation. In 2021 he was retrospectively named as one of the fathers of philately. [1]
Marcel Reich-Ranicki was a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the informal literary association Gruppe 47. He was regarded as one of the most influential contemporary literary critics in the field of German literature and has often been called Literaturpapst in Germany.
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism. Ever since their publication and up to the present day, some of his works have been very popular in Germany.
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The Austrian State Prize for European Literature, also known in Austria as the European Literary Award, is an Austrian literary prize awarded by the Federal Chancellery for Arts, Culture, and Media to European writers. Established in 1965, the prize is endowed with a purse of 25,000 €. The prize was not awarded in 1969. It is awarded on the Salzburg Festival.
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