Emanuel Geibel
Emanuel von Geibel (17 October 1815 – 6 April 1884) was a German poet and playwright.
Life
Geibel was born at
In 1851, Geibel was invited to Munich by Maximilian II of Bavaria as an honorary professor at the university, and he relinquished his Prussian stipend. While in Munich he was at the center of the literary circle called Die Krokodile (Crocodile Society), which was concerned with traditional forms. In 1852 he married Amanda Trummer and the next year they had a daughter, Ada Marie Caroline.[citation needed] A volume of Neue Gedichte, published at Munich in 1857, and principally consisting of poems on classical subjects, denoted a further considerable advance in his objectivity. The series was worthily closed by the Spätherbstblätter, published in 1877. He had left Munich in 1869 and returned to Lübeck, where he remained until his death.[1]
His works further include two tragedies, Brunhild (1858, 5th ed. 1890), and Sophonisbe (1869), and translations of French and Spanish popular poetry (
His poem Schön Ellen was set to music by Max Bruch.[2] Johannes Brahms set one of Geibel's paraphrases after Spanish poetry in the second of his Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano.
See also
Bibliography
- Gesammelte Werke published in 8 vols (1883, 4th ed. 1906)
- The Gedichte have gone through about 130 editions.
- A selection of his poems in one volume appeared in 1904.
For biography and criticism, see
- Karl Goedeke, E Geibel (1869)
- Wilhelm Scherer's address on Geibel (1884)
- Karl Theodor Gaedertz, Geibel-Denkwurdigkeiten (1886)
- Carl Conrad Theodor Litzmann, E Geibel, aus Erinnerungen, Briefen und Tagebüchern (1887)
- Biographies by Karl Ludwig Leimbach (2nd ed., 1894), and K. T. Gaedertz (1897).
References
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ISBN 9783476014122. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Geibel, Emanuel". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 550–551. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Works by or about Emanuel Geibel at Internet Archive
- Works by Emanuel Geibel at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)