CASTELLI, IGNAZ FRANZ (1781-1862), Austrian dram atist, was born at Vienna on March 6, 1781. During the Napole onic invasions his war song, Kriegslied fur die osterreichische Armee, was printed by order of the archduke Charles and dis tributed in thousands. For this Castelli was proclaimed by Napo leon in the Moniteur. In 1815 he went to France as secretary to Count Cavriani, and, after his return to Vienna, resumed his post in the government service. In 1842 he retired to his estate at Lilienfeld, where he devoted himself to literature. Castelli's dramatic talent was characteristically Austrian; his plays were well constructed and effective and satirized unsparingly the foibles of the Viennese. But his wit was local and ephemeral. His ex cellent Gedichte in nieder osterreichischer Mundart (1828) are still read. He died at Lilienfeld on Feb. 5, 1862.