“ In 1848 he was appointed professor of literature and history in Breslau, and in 1850 ordinary professor and librarian in Berlin; there he died on the 30th of November 1861. Mundt wrote extensively on aesthetic subjects, and as a critic he had considerable influence in his time. Prominent among his works are Die Kunst der deutschen Prosa (1837) ; Geschichte der Literatur der Gegenwart (1840) ; Aesthetik; die Idee der Schönheit und des Kunstwerks im Lichte unserer Zeit (1845, new ed. 1868) ”