Franz Adolf Friedrich Schober, since 1801 von Schober, was an Austrian poet, librettist, lithographer, actor in Breslau and Legationsrat in Weimar.
Schober was born to Austrian parents in Sweden. Educated in the Schnepfenthal Salzmann School, Akademisches Gymnasium and Kremsmünster Abbey, he returned to Vienna, where he began to study philosophy and met the composer Franz Schubert, his friends Johann Mayrhofer, Joseph von Spaun and the painters Leopold Kupelwieser and Moritz von Schwind. Between...
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