ANZENGRUBER, LUDWIG (1839-89), Austrian dram atist and novelist, was born at Vienna, Nov. 29 1839, and died there on Dec. 1 o 1889. He earned a precarious livelihood by journalism, then became a clerk in the police department until 1870, when he made a hit with his anti-clerical play, "Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld." Anzengruber made his greatest successes with plays of Austrian peasant life. Der Meineidbauer (1871) is a gloomy picture, but Die Kreuzelschreiber (1872), Der G'wissens wurm (1874) and Doppelselbstmord (1875) are gay and witty comedies. Das vierte Gebot (187 7) is a problem play, and has affinities with Ibsen's A Doll's House. Anzengruber also wrote a novel, Der Schandfleck (1876; remodelled 1884) ; and various short tales of village life collected under the title Wolken and Sonn'schein Anzengruber's collected works, with a biography, were published in 10 vols. in 1890 (3rd ed., 1897) ; his correspondence has been edited by A. Bettelheim (1902) . See A. Bettelheim, L. Anzengruber (189o) ; L. Rosner, Erinnerungen an L. Anzengruber (189o) ; H. Sittenberger, Studien zur Dramaturgie der Gegenwart (1899) ; S. Friedmann, L. Anzengruber (1902) .