Hermann Kurz
Hermann Kurz (30 November 1813 – 10 October 1873) was a German poet and novelist. • Illustration — Hermann Kurz (1843) He was born in Reutlingen. Having studied at the theological seminary at Maulbronn and at the University of Tübingen, he became assistant pastor at Ehningen. He then entered upon a literary career and lived in Stuttgart.
Hermann Kurz
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- 1813
- Died
- 1873
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- Occupation
- poet · translator · writer · librarian
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In 1863 he was appointed university librarian at Tübingen, where he remained until his death there. Kurz's collections of poems, Gedichte (1836) and Dichtungen (1839), were less successful than his historical novels, Schiller's Heimatjahre (1843) and Der Sonnenwirt (1854), and his excellent translations from English, Italian and Spanish. He also published a successful modern German version of Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan and Iseult (1844). His collected works were published in ten volumes (Stuttgart, 1874). His daughter, Isolde Kurz, was also a poet.
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Hermann Kurz appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a writer and librarian (30 November 1813 – 10 October 1873). The birth of Hermann Kurz is recorded on 30 November 1813, and the death on 10 October 1873. Hermann Kurz was born in Reutlingen, Germany, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Hermann Kurz died in Tübingen, Germany, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Hermann Kurz nach einer Fotografie von Franz Hanfstaengl
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1813
Hermann Kurz born at Reutlingen.
1873
Hermann Kurz died at Tübingen.
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Formation and teaching. Kurz studied at Friedrich-List-Gymnasium Reutlingen, Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren and Tübinger Stift.
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