Background
He was born in Waizenkirchen (now in Austria, but at that time still in Bavaria) and studied law at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, where he obtained his doctorate and entered the judiciary.
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He was born in Waizenkirchen (now in Austria, but at that time still in Bavaria) and studied law at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, where he obtained his doctorate and entered the judiciary.
He began his literary career as a dramatist with Camoëns and Bretislav (1843), which caught the attention of Ludwig I and led to a position at the court theatre. He obtained great popularity in the 1860s as a prolific writer of historical novels based on events in Austrian and Bavarian history. He was granted the Order of Street Michael in 1869, the next year was appointed director of the Volkstheater on Gärtnerplatz, resigning the position after a few years.
He was ennobled in 1876.
He died in Munich, where today a street bears his name.