Wolfgang Kirchbach

Ernst Wolfgang Kirchbach (born London, England, 18 September 1857; died Bad Nauheim, 8 September 1906) was a German critic and writer.

Wolfgang Kirchbach
Bust by Martin Meyer-Pyritz on gravestone at Friedhof Lichterfelde in Berlin

Biography

He was the son of German artist Ernst Sigismund and his wife Emma (Schmitthenner-Stockhausen) Sigismund. He studied 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.

Works
  • 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)

Notes

    References
    • 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). "Kirchbach, Wolfgang" . Encyclopedia Americana.
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