WILBRANDT, ADOLF (1837 )

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WILBRANDT, ADOLF (1837 ) ,

German

GERMAN
GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

novelist and dramatist, was born at

Rostock

ROSTOCK

on the 24th of August 1837, the son of a professor at that university. Having received his early

education

EDUCATION

at the gymnasium of his native town, he entered the university and engaged in the study of law. This, however, he soon abandoned in favour of philology and history, and continued these studies in Berlin and

Munich

MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

. After taking the degree of

doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

of philosophy, he joined the staff of the Siiddeutsche Zeitung in

Munich

MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

. He travelled abroad for a time and in 1871 settled in Vienna, where, two years later, he married the actress, Auguste Baudius. In 188, Wilbrandt was appointed
director of the Hofburg theatre in succession to Franz Dingelstedt, an

office

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

he held until 1887. In this year he returned to his native town of

Rostock

ROSTOCK

, and remained actively engaged in literary production. Wilbrandt is distinguished both as a dramatist and novelist. His merits were acknowledged by the

award

AWARD (from O. Fr. ewart, or esguart, cf. " reward ")

of the Grillparzer prize on two occasionsin 1895 for the tragedy

Gracchus

GRACCHUS

der Volkstribun, and in 1890 for his dramatic poem Der Meister von Palmyra, while in 1878 he received the Schiller prize for his dramatic productions.
Among his plays may he mentioned the tragedies, Arria and Messalina (1874), Nero (1876) ; Kriemhild (1877) ; the comedies Unerreichbar (187o), Die Maler (1872), Jugendliebe (1873) and Der Kampf ums Dasein (1874); and the drama Die Tochter des Herrn

Fabricius

FABRICIUS, GAIUS LUSCINUS (i.e. " the one-eyed ")
FABRICIUS, GEORG (1516-1571)
FABRICIUS, HIERONYMUS
FABRICIUS, JOHANN ALBERT (1668-1736)
CHRISTIAN
- CHRISTIAN
- CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)
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CHRISTIAN
- CHRISTIAN
- CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)
(1745-18o8)

(1883). Among his novels the following deserve notice:Meister Amor (188o) ; Hermann Ifinger (1892) ; Der Dornenweg (1894) ; Die Osterinsel (1895) ; Die Rothenburger (1895) ; and Hildegard Mahlmann (1897). He also published translations of Sophocles and Euripides (1866), Gedichte (1894, 1889 and 1907), and a volume of Erinnerungen (1905).
See V. Kiemperer, Adolf Wilbrandt. Eine Studie fiber seine Werke (1907), and A. Stern, Studien zur Literatur der Gegenwart (3rd ed., 1905).

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