GOTTSCHALL, RUDOLF VON German man of letters, was born at Breslau on Sept. 3o, 1823, the son of a Prussian artillery officer. He studied law at Konigsberg, but was expelled on account of his Liberalism. Breslau and Leipzig proved equally intolerant, and he completed his studies in Berlin. During this period he wrote Lieder der Gegenwart (1842) and Zensur fliichtlinge 0843)-the poetical fruits of his political enthusiasm. In 1852 he married Marie, baroness von Seherr-Thoss, and for the next few years lived in Silesia. In 1864 he settled in Leipzig. Down to 1887 Gottschall edited the Brockhaus'sche Bliitter fur litterarische Unterhaltung and the monthly periodical Unsere Zeit. Among Gottschall's volumes of lyric poetry are Sebastopol (1856), Janus (1873) , Bunte Bliiten (1891) ; among his epics, Carlo Zeno (1854), Maja (1864) , dealing with an episode in the Indian Mutiny, and Merlins Wanderungen (1887) . Pitt and Fox (1854) was his best comedy. The tragedies, Mazeppa, Catharine Howard, Amy Robsart and Der Gotze von Venedig, were written in imitation of Schiller. His historical novels, Im Banne des schwarzen Adlers (1875 ; 4th ed., 1884), Die Erbschaft des Blutes (1881), Die Tochter Rubezahls (2889), and Verkummerte Existenzen (1892), enjoyed great popularity. His critical work includes Die deutsche Nationalliteratur des 19. Jahrhun derts (1855; 7th ed., 1901-02) , and Poetik 0858; 6th ed., 2903) . See his autobiography, Aus meiner Jugend (1898) .