Wilhelm Franz Josef Kosch (2 October 1879 – 20 December 1960) was an Austrian historian of literature and theatre and
lexicographer. The
lexicon that he conceived and later revised several times, the ' is a references in the field of
German literature.
Born in
Drahany
Drahany is a market town in Prostějov District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
Drahany lies approximately west of Prostějov, south-west of Olomouc, and east of Prague.
Notable people
*Wilhelm Kosc ...
in
Moravia, Kosch died in
Vienna in 1960 at age 81.
Publications
* ''A. Stifter. Festschrift'', 1905
* ''Martin Greif in seinen Werken'', 1907
* ''Die Deutschen in Österreich und ihr Ausgleich mit den Tschechen'', 1909
* ''Menschen und Bücher''. Essays 1912
* ''Melchior Diepenbruck'', 1913
* ''Das deutsche Theater und Drama (im 19. Jahrhundert) seit Schillers Tod'', Vier Quellen Verlag, Leipzig (1913)
* M. Sailer, 1914
* Martin von Cochem, 1915
* ''Feldmarschall Graf Radetzky'', 1915
* J. von Eichendorff, 1923
* ''Das katholische Deutschland'',
''Das katholische Deutschland''
on ZVAB (A–S), 1933, (1938)
* '' in her letters to Adalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter (; 23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while ...
''. Der Wächter Verlag, Nymwegen 1940 and 1948.
Publisher
* ''Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon''. Biographisches und bibliographisches Handbuch I (1949) – 4 (1958); 2nd edition 1947–1958; 3rd edition 1966
* ''Das katholische Deutschland'' (A – Schlüter), 1933–1938
* '' Biographisches Staatshandbuch'' 1–2, 1963
* '' Deutsches Theater-Lexikon'' (A – Rostok), 1953–1966; Revision by Ingrid Bigler-Marschall, 2013.
Bibliography
* : ''Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder.'' on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum e.V. Vol.II, Oldenbourg, Munich 1984, , with further references.
* Supplement to vol. I, ''Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder,'' 1979, , Bibliography and data supplements: ''Kosch, Wilhelm''.
*
* Jaksch: Bohemia 4. Oktober 1929.
References
External links
*
Wilhelm Kosch
on Münzinger Biographie
Wilhelm Kosch
on ZVAB
on Deutsche Biographie
Wilhelm Kosch's main works
1879 births
1960 deaths
Germanists
Lexicographers
Theatrologists
20th-century lexicographers
Austrian literary historians
Radboud University Nijmegen faculty
People from Prostějov District
Moravian-German people
Austrian people of Moravian-German descent
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