Wilhelm Kosch


Wilhelm Franz Josef Kosch was an Austrian historian of literature and theatre and lexicographer. The lexicon that he conceived and later revised several times, the Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon is a references in the field of German literature.
Born in Drahany in Moravia, Kosch died in Vienna in 1960 at age 81.

Publications

Publisher
  • Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Biographisches und bibliographisches Handbuch I – 4 ; 2nd edition 1947–1958; 3rd edition 1966
  • Das katholische Deutschland, 1933–1938
  • Biographisches Staatshandbuch 1–2, 1963
  • Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, 1953–1966; Revision by Ingrid Bigler-Marschall, 2013.