Show students seek famous authors lost writings bt st louis mo research students at washington university here are en in the unique task of reclaim iiii ing for literature the works of a writ er who gained international fame nearly one hundred years ago only to die the in mysterious obscurity lie ile vas was known as charles I 1 the he great unknown but everts t ard the end of his life in 1884 1864 tended to conform that he actually was mas arl art I 1 orti of poppitz moravia from abnee I 1 e fled a monastery as a boy through a grant from the rocke teller foundation a start staff of four stu dents under dr otto heller dean of the graduate school Is com pillig g as in ich of the works as possible in the hope of an 18 volume edition k man widely idely trae traveled led tried through his writings to interpret Inter america to europe he ile wrote I 1 ng losli sentences benten ces idiomatically in ger er man a custom which lost him annor abroad shortly before e his death in 1854 1864 Seals field destroyed the manuscript f his biography and left an estate vat va aed at about 50 to the farall of anton of poppitz joseph post investigated and was so with nis own resemblance to the dead wilt er that all doubt of his real identity as its carl was removed |