Arnold Ott

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Arnold Ott (born December 5 or 6, 1840 in Vevey ; † September 30, 1910 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss doctor and poet.

Arnold Ott (1840–1910) doctor and poet, 1870
Arnold Ott, 1870
Monument in Lucerne

Life

Ott worked as an ophthalmologist in Neuhausen am Rheinfall , and from 1876 in Lucerne . He was also active as a poet and playwright .

In 1889 his folk play Agnes Bernauer found a "brilliant reception" at the ducal court theater in Meiningen . Between 1895 and 1904 there were festival performances in Altdorf, Diessenhofen and Wiedikon, the pieces of which were written by Arnold Ott. One of his better-known pieces was called Charles the Bold and the Confederates . He found his final resting place in the Friedental cemetery .

literature

Web links

Commons : Arnold Ott  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Calouri, 2005; Heinrich Bollinger: Arnold Ott on his 100th birthday, December 5, 1940
  2. ^ Joseph Victor Widmann : Sommerwanderungen und Winterfahrten (Frauenfeld 1897), p. 314 .
  3. Memorial plaque in Schaffhausen ( Memento from October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). City archive of Schaffhausen