Johann Alboth

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Johann Alboth (born November 23, 1861 in St. Joachimsthal , † June 10, 1940 in Edersgrün, Bohemia ) was a German poet and teacher .

life and work

Alboth was born in St. Joachimsthal in 1861 . After his teacher training in 1877, he first came to Vienna , then studied for two years in Prague and Graz . From 1881 he taught as a teacher in Tissau near Karlsbad, later he worked as a school principal in Altrohlau . After his retirement, he moved to Edersgrün near Lichtenstadt in the Egerland in 1925 .

Alboth's first volume of fiction appeared in 1896 under the title Singing and Wrestling: Selected Poems . A second volume with poems under the title Aus der Stille was published in 1903 by Verlag neue Literatur und Kunst Szelinski and Co. Leipzig C. Cnobloch. In 1911 he finally published his third and last volume of poetry, Heart and World . Alboth died in Edersgrün in June 1940 at the age of 78.

Fonts (selection)

  • Singing and Wrestling: Selected Poems. Poetry. Zurich 1896.
  • From the silent lyrics. Publishing house for new literature and art, Szelinski and Co. Leipzig C. Cnobloch, Vienna 1903.
  • Heart and World 1911/12.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Alboth In: Lutz Hagestedt (Hrsg.): German Literature Lexicon . The 20th Century Volume 1: Aab - Bauer. Verlag Walter de Gruyter , 2000, page 125.
  2. ^ Johann Alboth. In: Mitteilungen des Sudetendeutschen Archiv, issues 98-100. , Sudetendeutsches Archiv, 1990, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Alboth, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Joachimsthal
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1940
Place of death Edersgrün, Bohemia