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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler (1759–1827)

Ziegler, Friedrich Wilhelm (tsēG‘lãr). A German actor and dramatist; born at Brunswick, 1759; died at Vienna, 1827. He played at the Vienna Court Theatre with steady success for nearly forty years. Several of his dramas hold the stage to-day: as ‘Party Rage,’ and ‘The Four Temperaments.’ He wrote: ‘Dramatic Works’ (5 vols., 1791–94); ‘The Dramatic Art’ (1821); ‘Man with Relation to the Fine Arts, Particularly the Art Dramatic’ (1825); etc.