Ernst Wolfgang Kirchbach (18 September 1857, in

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– 8 September 1906, in

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) was a German critic and writer.

Biography

He was the son of German artist

Ernst Kirchbach Ernst Sigismund Kirchbach, or Ernesto Kirchbach (23 April 1831, Meißen - 16 August 1876, Dresden) was a German history and portrait painter, who served as Director of the Academy of Painting (Santiago, Chile). Biography He studied at the Dr ...

and his wife Emma née Schmitthenner-Stockhausen. He studied philosophy and history in

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and

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. 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

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. and became a leading member of the "

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Bund" of freethinking intellectuals.

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, ''Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914''. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1998, , pp. 194, 214–6, 496.

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

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kirchbach, Wolfgang 1857 births 1906 deaths German poets Writers from Berlin German male poets 19th-century poets 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers