Wolfgang Kirchbach
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Ernst Wolfgang Kirchbach (18 September 1857, in London, England – 8 September 1906, in Bad Nauheim) was a German critic and writer.
Biography[edit]
He was the son of German artist Ernst Kirchbach and his wife Emma née Schmitthenner-Stockhausen. He studied philosophy and history in Dresden and Leipzig. Settling in Dresden in 1888, he was editor of the Magazin für Litteratur des In- und Auslandes (Magazine for domestic and foreign literature). Beginning 1896, he lived in Berlin. and became a leading member of the "Giordano Bruno Bund" of freethinking intellectuals.[1]
Works[edit]
- Märchen (Tales, 1879)
- Salvator Rosa, a romance (1880)
- Gedichte (Poems, 1883)
- Das Leben auf der Walze (Life on rollers, 1892)
- Die letzten Menschen, a drama (The last people, 1892)
- Miniaturen (Stuttgart 1892)
- Des Sonnenreichs Untergang (Twilight of the sun's realm, Dresden, 1895)
- Gordon Pascha (Dresden, 1895)
- Eginhardt und Emma (ib. 1896)
- Der Lieder vom Zweirad (Song of the bicycle, 1900)
References[edit]
- ^ Andreas W. Daum, Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1998, ISBN 3-486-56337-8, pp. 194, 214–6, 496.
References[edit]
- Cornelia Herold. Martina Schattkowsky (ed.). "Kirchbach, Ernst Wolfgang". Sächsische Biografie (in German). Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde e.V. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
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