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ADOLF WILBRANDT (1837— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 632 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILBRANDT (1837— )  , See also:German novelist and dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Rostock on the 24th of See also:August 1837, the son of a See also:professor at that university . Having received his See also:early See also:education at the gymnasium of his native See also:town, he entered the university and engaged in the study of See also:law . This, however, he soon abandoned in favour of See also:philology and See also:history, and continued these studies in See also:Berlin and See also:Munich . After taking the degree of See also:doctor of See also:philosophy, he joined the See also:staff of the Siiddeutsche Zeitung in Munich . He travelled abroad for a See also:time and in 1871 settled in See also:Vienna, where, two years later, he married the actress, Auguste Baudius . In 188, See also:Wilbrandt was appointed director of the Hofburg See also:theatre in See also:succession to See also:Franz See also:Dingelstedt, an See also:office he held until 1887 . In this See also:year he returned to his native town of Rostock, and remained actively engaged in See also:literary See also:production . Wilbrandt is distinguished both as a dramatist and novelist . His merits were acknowledged by the See also:award of the See also:Grillparzer See also:prize on two occasions—in 1895 for the tragedy See also:Gracchus der Volkstribun, and in 1890 for his dramatic poem Der Meister von See also:Palmyra, while in 1878 he received the See also:Schiller prize for his dramatic productions . Among his plays may he mentioned the tragedies, See also:Arria and Messalina (1874), See also:Nero (1876) ; See also:Kriemhild (1877) ; the comedies Unerreichbar (187o), See also:Die Maler (1872), Jugendliebe (1873) and Der Kampf ums Dasein (1874); and the See also:drama Die Tochter See also:des Herrn See also:Fabricius (1883) . Among his novels the following deserve See also:notice:—Meister Amor (188o) ; See also:Hermann Ifinger (1892) ; Der Dornenweg (1894) ; Die Osterinsel (1895) ; Die Rothenburger (1895) ; and See also:Hildegard Mahlmann (1897) . He also published See also:translations of See also:Sophocles and See also:Euripides (1866), Gedichte (1894, 1889 and 1907), and a See also:volume of Erinnerungen (1905) .

See V . Kiemperer, Adolf Wilbrandt . Eine Studie fiber See also:

seine Werke (1907), and A . Stern, Studien zur Literatur der Gegenwart (3rd ed., 1905) .

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