Ernst Eckstein (6 February 1845,

Giessen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...

Grand Duchy of Hesse The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (german: link=no, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918. The Grand Duchy originally formed from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 ...

–18 November 1900) was a German humorist, novelist and poet.

Biography

From the university he went to Paris, where he completed his comic epos, ''Check to the Queen'' (1870), and wrote ''Paris Silhouettes'' (1873), the grotesque night-piece ''The Varzin Ghosts'', and the ''Mute of Seville''. Later he wrote the stories ''Margherita'', ''At the Tomb of Cestius'', ''The Mosque at Cordova''. He was editor of a literary and critical journal, ''Hall of Poets'', and of a humorous weekly, ''The Wag'', at Leipzig, for some years, and in 1885 settled in Dresden. He also wrote ''The Claudii'', ''Aphrodite, a Story of Ancient Hellas'', ''Decius the Flute-player: a Merry Story of a Musician in Ancient Rome''.

Works

* ''Venus Urania'', 1872 * ''Humoresken'', 1875/82 * ''Beiträge zur Geschichte des Feuilletons'', 1876 * ''Lisa Toscanella'' (Novellae), 1876 * ''Pariser Leben'', 1876 * ''Ein Pessimist'' (Comedy), 1877 * ''Sturmnacht'' (Novellae), 1878 * ''Die Claudier'' (Novel), 1881 * ''Prusias. Roman aus dem letzten Jahrhundert der römischen Republik'', 1884 * ''Jorinde'' (Novel), 1888 * ''Nero'' (Novel), 1889 * ''Das Kind'' (Novellae), 1893 * ''Verstehen wir Deutsch? Volkstümliche Sprachuntersuchungen'', 1894 * ''Familie Hartwig'' (Novel), 1894 * ''Roderich Löhr'' (Novel), 1896 * ''Willibald Menz. Lavafluten'' (Novel), 1898 * ''Die Klosterschülerin'' (Novel), 1899 * ''Die Märchenprinzessin'' (Novel), 1901 * ''Gesammelte Schulhumoresken'', 1907

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* * * 1845 births 1900 deaths People from Giessen People from the Grand Duchy of Hesse 19th-century German poets Writers from Hesse German male poets German male novelists 19th-century German novelists 19th-century German male writers {{Germany-writer-stub