Ernst Eckstein
Illustration — Ernst Eckstein. Ernst Eckstein (6 February 1845, Giessen, Grand Duchy of Hesse –18 November 1900) was a German humorist, novelist and poet.
Ernst Eckstein
Scan von Benutzer Goerdten · Jahrbuch der Berliner Morgenzeitung, Kalender 1902, Seite 253 · Public domain
- Full name
- Friedrich Ludwig Adolf Ernst Eckstein.
- Born
- 1845. · Giessen.
- Died
- 1900. · Dresden.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Prussia, Kingdom of Saxony and Grand Duchy of Hesse.
- Occupation
- poet, editing staff, writer and publicist.
- Education
- University of Giessen and University of Bonn.
- Languages
- German and Latin.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — Ernst Eckstein. Ernst Eckstein (6 February 1845, Giessen, Grand Duchy of Hesse –18 November 1900) was a German humorist, novelist and poet.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Ernst Eckstein. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q88752 · wikipedia · Ernst Eckstein
In this article
Biography
Biography
From the university he went to Paris, where he completed his comic epos, Check to the Queen (1870), and wrote Paris Silhouettes (1873), the grotesque night-piece The Varzin Ghosts, and the Mute of Seville. Later he wrote the stories Margherita, At the Tomb of Cestius, The Mosque at Cordova. He was editor of a literary and critical journal, Hall of Poets, and of a humorous weekly, The Wag, at Leipzig, for some years, and in 1885 settled in Dresden. He also wrote The Claudii, Aphrodite, a Story of Ancient Hellas, Decius the Flute-player: a Merry Story of a Musician in Ancient Rome.
Works
Works
• Venus Urania, 1872 • Humoresken, 1875/82 • Beiträge zur Geschichte des Feuilletons, 1876 • Lisa Toscanella (Novellae), 1876 • Pariser Leben, 1876 • Ein Pessimist (Comedy), 1877 • Sturmnacht (Novellae), 1878 • Die Claudier (Novel), 1881 • Prusias. Roman aus dem letzten Jahrhundert der römischen Republik, 1884 • Jorinde (Novel), 1888 • Nero (Novel), 1889 • Das Kind (Novellae), 1893 • Verstehen wir Deutsch? Volkstümliche Sprachuntersuchungen, 1894 • Familie Hartwig (Novel), 1894 • Roderich Löhr (Novel), 1896 • Willibald Menz. Lavafluten (Novel), 1898 • Die Klosterschülerin (Novel), 1899 • Die Märchenprinzessin (Novel), 1901 • Gesammelte Schulhumoresken, 1907
Portrait des Ernst_Eckstein
Datenbank Tripota in der Wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek der Stadt Trier/Stadtarchiv
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
- Dresden, Berlin and Paris.
Named but not plotted · 2
Giessen.
Birth place
Dresden.
Death place
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Ernst Eckstein”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q88752: Ernst Eckstein
General reference · Wikidata
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 19 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
39,529 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Ernst BertramAuthor
- Ernst BlassAuthor
- Ernst CurtiusAuthor
- Ernst DohmAuthor
- Ernst EnnoAuthor
- Ernst FischerAuthor
- Ernst Florian WinterAuthor
- Ernst GlaeserAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Ernst Eckstein?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.