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Wolfgang Kirchbach; engraving by Johann Lindner (1895)

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

Biography

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.

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)

References

  1. 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.

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