Adolf Stern

Adolf Stern, actually Friedrich Adolf Ernst ( born June 14, 1835 in Leipzig, † April 15, 1907 in Dresden ) was a German literary historian and poet.

Life

Adolf Stern visited the St. Thomas School at Leipzig, had his education prematurely but due to the poor financial situation of his family. In 1852, he succeeded at the Universities of Leipzig and Jena history to study comparative linguistics, literature and art history. In addition, he led the life of a man of letters as well as artist and was able to make connections to Peter Cornelius, Felix Draeseke and Otto Ludwig. With Friedrich Hebbel, he was also in contact by correspondence.

1860 Star teacher of literature and history at Krause 's institute in Dresden and sat besides his studies at the University of Jena continued. In 1863 he married Malvine Krause, a landscape painter, whom he immortalized as " Jone " in his poems. After a stopover in Schandau in 1868 he was an associate and in 1869 a full professor of literary history at the Royal Saxon Polytechnic Institute in Dresden, which was also Hettner was a professor of art history and whose biographer he became after his death.

After the early death of his wife in 1877 he married Malvine 1881, the renowned pianist and piano teacher Margaret Lord ( 1855-1899 ), a pupil of Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann, to whom he dedicated a biography after her death.

Works (selection)

As author

  • Historical novels. Weber, Leipzig 1866.
  • From dark days. A short story book. 3rd Edition Schultze Verlag, Hamburg 1904 ( Nachdr d ed Leipzig 1879).
  • The Anabaptists. Historical novel. Reclam, Leipzig 1918 ( Nachdr d ed Leipzig 1880).
  • The Rediscovered. Amendment. DVA, Stuttgart 1891.
  • Selected short stories. 4th Ed Koch Verlag, Dresden, 1912.
  • The Christmas Oratorio. Amendment. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1911 ( Hesse chapbooks ).
  • The last humanist. Historical novel. Publisher Grethlein, Leipzig 1919 ( Pictures German past; 6).
  • Without ideals. Novel. Grunow, Leipzig 1882.
  • Camoëns. Novel. Grunow, Leipzig 1886.
  • From the eighteenth century. Biographical sketches and pictures. Luckhardt, Leipzig 1874.
  • Encyclopedia of German Nationallitteratur. the German poet and prose writer of all time, taking into account the most outstanding poetic treated fabrics. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1882.
  • The German Nationallitteratur the death of Goethe to the present. Elwert, Marburg 1886.
  • History of the literature of the world clearly presented. Rieger Verlag, Stuttgart, 1888.
  • Hettner. A picture of life. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1885.
  • Otto Ludwig. A poet lives. 2nd edition Grunow, Leipzig 1894.
  • Contributions to the literary history of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Brandstetter Verlag, Leipzig 1893.
  • Studies on the literature of the present. Ash -Verlag, Dresden 1895.
  • Margarete star. An artist 's inner workings. Koch, Dresden 1901.
  • Hiking book, pictures and sketches, Schulz ash yard bookstore and yard- book printing, Oldenburg and Leipzig 3 greatly increased undated edition (1890)
  • Selected Works. Koch, Dresden 1904/ 08 ( 8 vols ).

As editor

  • Fifty years of German poetry. 1820 - 1870th second aufl. Wartig -Verlag, Leipzig, 1877.
  • Wilhelm Hauff 's works. Grote, Berlin 1878 ( 3 vols ).
  • Johann Gottfried von Herder: Selected Works. Reclam, Leipzig 1881.
  • Christian Gottfried Körner: Collected Writings. Grunow, Leipzig 1881.
  • Voltaire's Satirical novels and short stories. Eichoff Verlag, Berlin 1886 ( Public Library of 18th Century Literature, 5).
  • Theodor Körner works. Niemeyer, Tübingen, 1974 ( 3 vols; Nachdr d ed Stuttgart 1889).
  • Otto Ludwig's selected writings. Grunow, Leipzig 1891 (6 vols ).
  • Friedrich Hebbel: The Complete Works. Knaur, Hamburg 1902 ( 12 vols ).
  • Franz Liszt: Letters to Carl Gille. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1903.
  • Peter Cornelius: Literary works. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1904/ 05 ( 4 vols ).
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