Wolfgang Kirchbach


Ernst Wolfgang Kirchbach was a German critic and writer.

Biography

He was the son of German artist Ernst Kirchbach and his wife Emma née Schmitthenner-Stockhausen. He studied philosophy and history in Dresden and Leipzig. Settling in Dresden in 1888, he was editor of the Magazin für Litteratur des In- und Auslandes. Beginning 1896, he lived in Berlin. and became a leading member of the "Giordano Bruno Bund" of freethinking intellectuals.

Works

Märchen Salvator Rosa, a romance Gedichte Das Leben auf der Walze Die letzten Menschen, a drama Miniaturen Des Sonnenreichs Untergang Gordon Pascha Eginhardt und Emma