Wolfgang Kirchbach
Illustration — Wolfgang Kirchbach; engraving by Johann Lindner (1895) Ernst Wolfgang Kirchbach (18 September 1857, in London, England – 8 September 1906, in Bad Nauheim) was a German critic and writer.
Also recorded as Ernst Wolfgang Kirchbach
Wolfgang Kirchbach

Johann Lindner (1839–1906) · zvab · Public domain
- Born
- 1857 · London.
- Died
- 1906 · Bad Nauheim.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- poet · journalist · writer · playwright
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Wolfgang Kirchbach; engraving by Johann Lindner (1895) Ernst Wolfgang Kirchbach (18 September 1857, in London, England – 8 September 1906, in Bad Nauheim) was a German critic and writer.
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He was the son of German artist Ernst Kirchbach and his wife Emma née Schmitthenner-Stockhausen. He studied philosophy and history in Dresden and Leipzig. Settling in Dresden in 1888, he was editor of the Magazin für Litteratur des In- und Auslandes (Magazine for domestic and foreign literature). Beginning 1896, he lived in Berlin. and became a leading member of the "Giordano Bruno Bund" of freethinking intellectuals.
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• Märchen (Tales, 1879) • Salvator Rosa, a romance (1880) • Gedichte (Poems, 1883) • Das Leben auf der Walze (Life on rollers, 1892) • Die letzten Menschen, a drama (The last people, 1892) • Miniaturen (Stuttgart 1892) • Des Sonnenreichs Untergang (Twilight of the sun's realm, Dresden, 1895) • Gordon Pascha (Dresden, 1895) • Eginhardt und Emma (ib. 1896) • Der Lieder vom Zweirad (Song of the bicycle, 1900)
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