His regiment was stationed in Vienna and he probably continued to serve in the army as his literary career started, but later he retired, becoming a titular captain.
[1][2] Like his contemporaries in Vienna, Karl Meisl and Josef Alois Gleich, he was a prolific writer of plays.
The 200th performance, on 10 February 1843, was attended by the Emperor and members of his family; the day was treated as in Vienna as a folk festival.
[1][2] The writer and journalist Isaak Jeitteles [de] (Julius Seidlitz) wrote: "Without original creative powers, he never rises above mediocrity, his figures are blurred in mist, they have no firm will, no basis founded on the character itself.... And Told has recently published again a few volumes of novellas!
His plays are referred to by his biographer in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (1882) as "Theaterplunder": "theatrical rubbish".