BAUERNFELD, EDUARD VON Austrian dramatist, was born at Vienna on Jan. 13, 1802, and died there on Aug. 9, 189o. He entered the Austrian civil service, and remained a civil servant until after the revolution of 1848, when he retired in order to devote his whole energies to the drama. His earliest essays, the comedies Leichtsinn aus Liebe (1831) ; Das Liebes-Protokoll (1831) and Die ewige Liebe (1834) ; Bur gerlich and Romantisch (1835), were very popular. Later he turned his attention to so-called Salonstiicke (drawing-room pieces), notably Aus der Gesellschaf t (1866) ; Moderne Jugend (1869), and Der Landfrieden (1869), in which he gave a gay and witty picture of Viennese social life.
A complete edition of Bauernfeld's works, Gesammelte Schrif ten, appeared in 1871-73 ; Dramatischer Nachlass, ed. by F. von Saar (1893) ; selected works, ed. by E. Horner (1905) . See A. Stern, Bauernfeld, Ein Dichterportriit (189o), R. von Gottschall, "E. von Bauernfeld" (in Unsere Zeit, 189o) , and E. Horner, Bauernfeld (19oo) .