Karl Agnel Schneider

Karl Agnel Schneider (Czech Karel Sudimír Šnajdr ; born December 14, 1766 in Königgrätz , † May 17, 1835 in Smidar ) was an Austrian- Bohemian lawyer and writer.

After attending high school in his hometown, Schneider studied philosophy, literature and history at the universities of Prague, Leipzig, Halle and Göttingen. From 1786 he studied law, literature and aesthetics in Prague. In 1892 he began his career as a lawyer and became legal advisor in various places, from 1803 in Prague. After August Gottlieb Meißner left , he taught aesthetics and classical literature at the University of Prague from 1805 to 1806 . He worked as legal advisor for his friend and patron Joseph Graf von Colloredo-Mels and Wallsee . In 1806 he went to Rožďalowitz , then for Count Colloredo to Dimokur , in 1825 to Smidar. In 1832 he retired.

Since the 1790s he has mainly published poems in German, since 1820, under the influence of the writer Josef Vojtěch Sedláček, he only published poems and ballads in Czech and Czechized his name.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schneider, Karl Agnel . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1876, pp. 31–34 ( digitized version ).
• Václav Petrbok:  Šnajdr (tailor), Karel Sudimír (Karl Agnel). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 383.
• Ingrid Bigler: Schneider, Karl Xaver Agnel . In: German Literature Lexicon . Biographical-bibliographical manual. 3rd edition, Volume 15, Francke, Bern 1993, Sp. 582-583.
• Václav Petrbok: Karel Sudimír Šnajdr. In: Listy starohradské kroniky 25, 3–4, 2002, pp. 90–93 ( digitized version )