Wolfgang Kirchbach

German writer

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (June 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Wolfgang Kirchbach]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Wolfgang Kirchbach}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

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.^[1]

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

^ 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.

References

Cornelia Herold. Martina Schattkowsky (ed.). "Kirchbach, Ernst Wolfgang". Sächsische Biografie (in German). Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde e.V. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Kirchbach, Wolfgang" . Encyclopedia Americana.