Joseph Kürschner
Joseph Kürschner (20 September 1853, in
editor most often cited for his critical edition of classics from German literature
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Biography
At first engaged in
University of Leipzig
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Then he lived several years in Hofrat) and professor by Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Besides several publications connected with the history of German theater, he edited successively in Berlin and Stuttgart
a considerable number of literary monthlies, year-books, and other periodicals.
He was also editor of the Deutsche Nationallitteratur, a critical collection in 220 volumes of classics from German literature. He was also widely known as the editor, after 1883, of the Allgemeiner deutscher Litteraturkalender (Stuttgart, 1879 et seq.), an annual biographical record of all German authors and their works.
Original works
- Konrad Ekhof (1872)
- Bayreuther Tagebuchblätter (Bayreuth diary; 1870)
- Heil Kaiser Dir! (1897)
- Frau Musika (1898)
- China (1901)
- Kaiser Wilhelm II als Soldat und Seemann (1902)
Notes
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References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- Hans Lülfing (1982), "Kürschner, Joseph", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 13, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 234–236