Wolfgang Kirchbach
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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 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. Andreas W. Daum, ''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)


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