Adolf Stern (writer)

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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 attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig , but had to break off his school education prematurely due to the poor financial circumstances of his family. In 1852 he succeeded in studying history , comparative linguistics , literature and art history at the universities of Leipzig and Jena . In addition, he led the life of a writer and artist and was able to establish connections with Peter Cornelius , Felix Dräseke and Otto Ludwig . He was also in contact with Friedrich Hebbel by letter.

In 1860, Stern became a teacher of literature and history at the Krausesche Institute in Dresden and continued his studies at the University of Jena. In 1863 he married Malvine Krause, a landscape painter, whom he immortalized as "Jone" in his poems. After a stopover in Schandau , he became an associate professor in 1868 and a full professor of literary history at the Royal Saxon Polytechnic in Dresden in 1868 , where Hermann Hettner also worked as a professor of art history and whose biographer he became after his death.

After the early death of his wife Malvine in 1877, he married the renowned pianist and piano teacher Margarete Herr (1855–1899), a student of Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann , to whom he dedicated a biography after their death.

Works (selection)

As an author

stories
  • Historical novellas . Weber, Leipzig 1866.
  • From dark days. A book of novels . 3rd edition Schultze Verlag, Hamburg 1904 (reprint of the Leipzig edition 1879).
  • The Anabaptists . Historical novella . Reclam, Leipzig 1918 (reprint of the Leipzig 1880 edition).
  • The one found again. Novella . DVA, Stuttgart 1891.
  • Selected short stories . 4th edition Koch Verlag, Dresden 1912.
  • The Christmas Oratorio. Novella . Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1911 (Hesse's popular books).
Novels
  • The last humanists. Historical novel . Verlag Grethlein, Leipzig 1919 (pictures of the German past; 6).
  • Without ideals. Novel . Grunow, Leipzig 1882.
  • Camoëns. Novel . Grunow, Leipzig 1886.
Non-fiction
  • From the eighteenth century. Biographical pictures and sketches . Luckhardt, Leipzig 1874.
  • Lexicon of the German national literature. the German poets and prose writers of all time, taking into account the most outstanding poetic subjects . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1882.
  • The German National Literature from Goethe's Death to the Present . Elwert, Marburg 1886.
  • History of the literature of the world in a clear format . Rieger Verlag, Stuttgart 1888.
  • Hermann Hettner . A picture of life . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1885.
  • Otto Ludwig . A poet's life . 2nd edition Grunow, Leipzig 1894.
  • Contributions to the history of literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . Brandstetter Verlag, Leipzig 1893.
  • Studies on contemporary literature . Esche-Verlag, Dresden 1895.
  • Margarete Stern. An artist's life . Koch, Dresden 1901.
Travel stories
  • Wanderbuch, pictures and sketches , Schulzesche Hof-Buchhandlung and Hof-Buchdruckerei, Oldenburg and Leipzig 3rd greatly increased edition no year (1890)
Work edition
  • Selected works . Koch, Dresden 1904/08 (8 vol.).

As editor

  • Fifty years of German poetry. 1820-1870 . 2nd ed. Wartig-Verlag, Leipzig 1877.
  • Wilhelm Hauff 's works . Grote, Berlin 1878 (3 vol.).
  • Johann Gottfried von Herder : Selected works . Reclam, Leipzig 1881.
  • Christian Gottfried Körner : Collected writings . Grunow, Leipzig 1881.
  • Voltaire's Satyrical Novels and Stories . Eichhoff Verlag, Berlin 1886 (public library of the literature of the 18th century; 5).
  • Theodor Körner's works . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1974 (3 vols .; reprint of the Stuttgart edition 1889).
  • Otto Ludwig's selected writings . Grunow, Leipzig 1891 (6 vols.).
  • Friedrich Hebbel : 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 vol.).
  • Wilhelm von Kügelgen : childhood memories of an old man . Max Hesses Verlag, Leipzig. 1904/1905.

literature

  • Adolf Bartels : Adolf Stern. The poet and literary historian; on his 70th birthday . Koch, Dresden 1905.
  • Theobald Bieder (ed.): Adolf Stern and his relationships with Friedrich Hebbel . Behr Verlag, Leipzig 1936.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appendix: Adolf Stern: Gedichte

Web links

Wikisource: Adolf Stern  - Sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernst, Friedrich Adolf (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian and poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1907
Place of death Dresden