Emil Rittershaus
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Friedrich Emil Rittershaus (3 April 1834 – 8 March 1897) was a German poet.
Biography
[edit]He was born in Barmen (now Wuppertal), Kingdom of Prussia. His poetry, marked by simple feeling, fine diction, and original matter, won great popularity.[1] He died in Barmen. His daughter, Adeline, was a philologist, scholar, and champion for the equality of women.
He was a member of the Wuppertal poets' circle in the 1850s.[2] He knew Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and wrote several letters to them in 1867–1868.[3]
Gallery
[edit]Selected works
[edit]- — (1880) [First ed. 1855]. Gedichte [Poems] (6th ed.). Breslau: Eduard Trewendt. OCLC 608819518.
- Westfalenlied (Westphalia Anthem; 1886)
- — (1890) [First ed. c. 1886]. Buch der Leidenschaft [Book of Passion] (in German) (3rd ed.). OCLC 68063153.
- — (1893) [First ed. 1893]. In Bruderliebe und Brudertreue [In brotherly love and brotherly loyalty] (in German). Hesse. OCLC 1133304482.
- — (1893). Spruchperlen heitrer lebenskunst [Proverbs of cheerful life] (in German). Berlin: G. Grote. OCLC 798559250.
- — (1900) [First ed. 1884]. Am Rhein und beim Wein Gedichte (4th stereotype ed.). Bonn: Strauß. OCLC 1068827667.
References
[edit]- ^ Gilman 1905.
- ^ Hermand 1998, p. 124.
- ^ "Emil Rittershaus". www.megadigital.bbaw.de. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- Hermand, Jost (1998). "Die Wuppertaler Dichterbünde". Die deutschen Dichterbünde: von den Meistersingern bis zum PEN-Club [The German Poets' Associations: From the Meistersingers to the PEN-CLUB] (in German). Weimar Wien: Böhlau. pp. 124–126. ISBN 978-3-412-09897-1. OCLC 39515747.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
Further reading
[edit]- Traeger, Albert (1870). "Ein Dichter des Wupperthales" [A poet from Wuppertal]. Die Gartenlaube (in German) (24): 373–375.
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