Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Adolf Stern

Adolf Stern

Adolf Stern (real name, Adolf Ernst) (1835-1907) was a German literary historian and poet, born in Leipzig. He studied at the universities of Leipzig and Jena, and in 1868 was appointed professor of the history of literature in the Polytechnikum of Dresden. His publications include the compilation Fnfzig Jahre deutscher Dichtung (1871); two collections of essays, Aus dem achtzehnten Jahrhundert (1874), Geschichte der neuern Litteratur (seven volumes, 1882-85); Grundriss der allgemeinen Literaturgeschichte (fourth edition, 1906); and editing of Hauff, Herder, and Krner, Sr. His literary works include: Gedichte (1860); fourth edition, 1900); Die Wiedertufer (1866), stories; the novels Die letzten Humanisten (1880); Camons (1887); and Die Ausgestossenen (1911), a fragment. His selected works appeared in eight volumes (Leipzig, 1908).



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