Wolfgang Kirchbach

Wolfgang Kirchbach; engraving by Johann Lindner (1895)

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.

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

• 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.