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KINKEL, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1815-1882) , German poet, was born on the 11th of August 1815 at Obercassel near Bonn
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paper Hermann. In 1866 he accepted the professor-ship of archaeology and the history of art at the Polytechnikum in Zurich, in which city he died on the 13th of November 1882.The popularity which Kinkel
century . His Gedichte first appeared in 1843, and have gone through several editions. He is to be seen to most advantage in the verse romances, Otto der Schutz, eine rheinische Geschichte in zwolf Abenteuern (1846) which in 1896 had attained its 75th edition, and Der Grobschmied von Antwerpen (1868). Among Kinkel's other works may be mentioned the tragedy Nimrod (18J7), and his history of art, Geschichte der bildenden Kustste bei den christlichen Volkern (1845). Kinkel's first wife, Johanna, nee Mockel (1810-1858), assisted her husband in his literary work
See A. Strodtmann, Gottfried Kinkel (2 vols., Hamburg, 1851); and O. Henne am Rhyn, G. Kinkel, ein Lebensbild (Zurich, 1883). End of Article: KINKEL, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1815-1882) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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