Moritz Pläschke (bookseller)

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Johann Gottlieb Moritz Pläschke , also Plaeschke (born July 29, 1847 in Düsseldorf , † in February 1914 in Krefeld ), was a German bookseller , publisher , poet and librettist .

Life

Pläschke, the first of three sons of the Düsseldorf genre painter Moritz Pläschke and his wife Mathilde, née Knevels († November 1857), attended grammar school up to Obersekunda. From 1865 he did an apprenticeship as a bookseller. In the Franco-Prussian War (1870/1871) he served as a soldier after he volunteered for one year in the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment No. 39 . After further training in Stettin , he lived in Krefeld from 1873, where he bought a bookshop and published some of his own writings there. In the artistic field, Pläschke emerged as a poet and librettist .

Pläschke married Sophie Paulus, who gave birth to the children Elly (* 1875), Moritz (1878–1916), Rudolf (1881–1915) and Hilda (1895–1921).

Works (selection)

  • It was a sweet violet . Voss, Düsseldorf 1865
  • Diary in songs . De Haen, Düsseldorf 1871
  • Poems . Schellmann, Mönchengladbach 1887 (5th edition 1912)
  • The iron king. A song from our days . Plaeschke, Krefeld 1890
  • New poems . Plaeschke, Krefeld 1909
  • Shape. Seven poems . Lüthen, Krefeld 1910
  • New songs . Lüthen, Krefeld 1910
  • New life. A circle of songs . Lüthen, Krefeld 1911
  • Older poems . Lüthen, Krefeld 1911
  • From my old knapsack . Plaeschke, Krefeld 1913

literature

  • Plaeschke, Moritz . In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers . Reclam, Leipzig 1913, Volume V, p. 300
  • Kürschner Nekrolog, Volume I, p. 542

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SURNAME Pläschke, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pläschke, Johann Gottlieb Moritz (full name); Plaeschke, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller, publisher, poet and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH February 1914
Place of death Krefeld