Ljubo Wiesner
Ljubo Wiesner (born February 2, 1885 in Zagreb , † July 3, 1951 in Rome ) was a Croatian poet and translator.
He attended elementary school and high school in Zagreb, after which he briefly worked as a journalist. Wiesner was one of the founders of the literary magazines Grič (Grič = Zagreb Old Town), Kritika (German: The Criticism ) and Savremenik (German: The Contemporary ), but is primarily the editor of the poetry collection Hrvatska mlada lirika (German: Croatian young Poetry , 1914 ), which also contained poems by him. In 1926 his only volume of poetry, Pjesme (German: Poems ) was published. He has translated from German , French , Italian , Czech and Russian , including works by Walt Whitman , Émile Zola and Victor Hugo . During the Second World War he headed the monthly Suradnja (German: Cooperation ) in Berlin . For years he worked on a biography of the Croatian poet Antun Gustav Matoš , who was his great role model, but the work remained unfinished. From 1948 until his death he lived in Rome.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ljubo Wiesner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Brief biography of Ljubo Wiesner
- Ljubo Wiesner died
- Ljubo Wiesner (1885-1951)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiesner, Ljubo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zagreb |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd July 1951 |
| Place of death | Rome |