07/02/1814, Vienna, Austria - 26/12/1857, Graz, Austria
Austrian poet, playwrighter, librettist, composer. He entered the civil service and was an official at the archive of the reichsrat. He is the author of a number of comedies staged in the German theater of Vienna (1849) and many popular folk songs and romances in the lower Austrian dialect. He is also the author of musical compositions for most of his poetic works.