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Eduard Castle - Gedenktafel

Liechtensteinstraße 11, Alsergrund (1090), Vienna

The record

Type
Commemorative plaque (Gedenktafel)
Material
Marmor
Plaque made
1969
Epoch
Nach 1945
Address
Liechtensteinstraße 11
District
Alsergrund (1090)
City
Vienna (Wien)
Country
Austria
Coordinates
48.21713, 16.36236
Object number
95664

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1813 map "Sect. 161. Theil von Oestreich = Partie d'Autriche" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1813 · Sect. 161. Theil von Oestreich = Partie d'Autriche (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1837 · I, II, III, IV Sections. Umgebung von Wien. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1843 · (With directional lighting) Neuester Plan von Wien und Dessen 34 Vorstaedten in Relief. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1866 · Plan der Haupt-u. Residenz Stadt Wein mit der neuen Bezirkseintheilung, Strassenbenennung… (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1877 · Wein. (Nieder-Osterreich) (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)

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The City of Vienna's record

Inschrift

Dr. Eduard / Castle / geb. am 7.11.1875 / in Wien/Wieden, / gest. am 8.6.1959 / in diesem Hause /
Germanist u. Theaterwissenschaftler / an der Universität Wien, / väterlicher Freund seiner Schüler, / Verfechter Österreichs und seiner / Ehre in der Gelehrtenwelt, / betätigte sich als Goetheforscher / und wohnte und wirkte hier 50 Jahre. / Als Herausgeber österr. Klassiker zeigte er, / dass Besonderheit nicht Absonderung ist. / Er schuf durch Herausgabe der / deutsch-österr. Literaturgeschichte / der deutschen Kulturarbeit in der / österr.-ungar. Monarchie ein / "Monumentum aere perennius" / ein Denkmal, dauerhafter als Erz.

Beschreibung

Relief des Kopfes

English translation

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Inscription

Dr. Eduard / Castle / born 7.11.1875 / in Vienna/Wieden, / died 8.6.1959 / in this house /
Germanist and theatre scholar / at the University of Vienna, / paternal friend of his students, / champion of Austria and its / honour in the scholarly world, / engaged in Goethe research / and lived and worked here for 50 years. / As editor of Austrian classics he showed / that distinctiveness is not isolation. / Through the publication of the / German-Austrian literary history he created / German cultural work in the / Austro-Hungarian Monarchy a / "Monumentum aere perennius" / a monument more lasting than bronze.

Description

Relief of the head

Other plaques nearby

Other plaques in the City's record within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Datenquelle: Stadt Wien – data.wien.gv.at (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0). Inscriptions and notes are reproduced unchanged. Stadt Wien · CC BY 4.0
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