Ernst Eckstein

Ernst Eckstein was a German humorist, novelist and poet.

Biography

From the university he went to Paris, where he completed his comic epos, Check to the Queen, and wrote Paris Silhouettes, the grotesque night-piece The Varzin Ghosts, and the Mute of Seville. Later he wrote the stories Margherita, At the Tomb of Cestius, The Mosque at Cordova. He was editor of a literary and critical journal, Hall of Poets, and of a humorous weekly, The Wag, at Leipzig, for some years, and in 1885 settled in Dresden. He also wrote The Claudii, Aphrodite, a Story of Ancient Hellas, Decius the Flute-player: a Merry Story of a Musician in Ancient Rome.

Works

Venus Urania, 1872Humoresken, 1875/82Beiträge zur Geschichte des Feuilletons, 1876Lisa Toscanella, 1876Pariser Leben, 1876Ein Pessimist, 1877Sturmnacht, 1878Die Claudier, 1881Prusias. Roman aus dem letzten Jahrhundert der römischen Republik, 1884Jorinde, 1888Nero, 1889Das Kind, 1893Verstehen wir Deutsch? Volkstümliche Sprachuntersuchungen, 1894Familie Hartwig, 1894Roderich Löhr, 1896Willibald Menz. Lavafluten, 1898Die Klosterschülerin, 1899Die Märchenprinzessin, 1901Gesammelte Schulhumoresken, 1907