Career
Some of his works have been set to music by Schubert, such as Der Zwerg (Doctorate 771), Wehmut (Doctorate 772) and Nacht und Träume (Doctorate 827). Matthäus Casimir von Collin was born in Vienna, the younger brother of the Viennese poet and playwright Heinrich Joseph von Collin. He was editor of the Wiener Jahrbücher für Literatur.
He was in sympathy with the Romantic movement, and intimate with its leaders.
His dramas on themes from Austrian national history (Belas Krieg mit dem Vater, 1808. Der Tod Friedrichs des Streitbaren, 1813) may be regarded as the immediate precursors of Grillparzer"s historical tragedies.
He is the subject of a monograph by F. Laban (1879). He died in Penzing, a former independent suburb of Vienna.
