August von Kotzebue
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August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue was a German playwright, who had also worked as a Russian diplomat.
Signatur August von Kotzebue
Announcement of two pieces by August von Kotzebue performed at the theater of Bruges on 8 August 1813
Stabbing of Kotzebue
Portrait of Kotzebue in Weimar
Karl Ludwig Sand
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Karl Ludwig Sand was a German university student and member of a liberal Burschenschaft. He was executed in 1820 for the murder of the conservative dramatist August von Kotzebue the previous year in M
August von Kotzebue
…playwright, who had also worked as a Russian diplomat. In 1817, one of Kotzebue's books was burned during the Wartburg festival. He was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant member of the Burschenschaften. This murder gave Metternich the pretext to issue the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819, which dissolved the…
Students marching towards the Wartburg, of which Sand was one.
His grave in Mannheim