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Born at Magdeburg, Germany, he was educated at the monasterial (Kloster) school and at the Altstädter gymnasium there. He spent some time as playwright with a company of strolling actors , but afterwards studied philosophy, theology and history at the University of Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, where in 1792 he established himself as a Privatdozent.
He created a sensation by the extravagant novel, Abällino, der grosse Bandit ( 1793; subsequently also dramatized), modelled on SchillerJohann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller ( November 10, 1759 May 9, 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller was a German poet, historian, and dramatist. He was born in Marbach (located in Germany's Stuttgart Region), the son of the military doctor, J.'s Die Räuber, and the melodramatic tragedy Julius von Sassen ( 1796Events Edward Jenner develops vaccination, using cowpox to protect against smallpox February 1 The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York March 9 Widow Josephine de Beauharnais marries General Napoleon Bonaparte. March 30 Carl Gauss obtained).
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Zschokke retired from public life when the central government at Berne proposed to re-establish the federal system, but after the changes effected by Bonaparte he entered the service of the canton of Aargau, with which he remained connected. In 1801 he attracted attention by his Geschichte vom Kampfe und Untergange der schweizerischen Berg- und Wald-Kantone. Through his Schweizerbote, the publication of which began in 1804, he exercised a wholesome influence on public affairs; and the like may be said of his Misceilen für die neueste Weltkunde, issued from 1807 to 1813. In 1811 he also started a monthly periodical, the Erheiterungen. He wrote various historical works, the most important of which is Des Schweizerlandes Geschichte für das Schweizervolk (1822, 8th ed. 1849).
Zschokke's tales, on which his literary reputation rests, are collected in several series, Bilder aus der Schweiz (5 vols., 1824–25), Ausgewählte Novellen und Dichtungen (16 vols., 1838–39). The best known are: Addrich im Moos (1794), Der Freihof von Aarau (1794), Alamontade (1802), Der Creole (1830), Das Goldmacherdorf (1817), and Meister Jordan (1845).
In Stunden der Andacht (1809–1816; 27 editions in Zschokke's lifetime), which was widely read, he expounded in a rationalistic spirit the fundamental principles of religion and morality. Eine Selbstschau (1842) is a kind of autobiography.
Zschokke was not a great original writer, but he secured an eminent place in the literature of his time by his enthusiasm for modern ideas in politics and religion, by the sound, practical judgment displayed in his works, and by the energy and lucidity of his style.
He died at his country house of Blumenhalde on the Aar on the 27th of June 1848.
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