Author:
Brümmer,
Franz, 1836-1923.
Title:
Lexikon
der deutschen Dichter und Prosaisten vom Beginn
des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart / bearbeitet
von Franz Brümmer. --
Edition:
Sechste,
vollig neu bearbeitete und stark vermehrte Auflage
[6th edition].
Published:
Leipzig
: Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun., 1913.
Description:
8
v. in 4 ; 14 cm.
Notes:
A
1975 reprint of this 6th edition in 8 v., 1913, was
published by Kraus, Nendeln, in a larger format (23
cm).
Bibliography: v. 1, p. [7]-21.
Bd. 1. Aar - Dennemark. -- Bd. 2.
Dennert - Grutter.
-- Bd. 3.Grzenkowski - Kleimann. -- Bd. 4. Kleimon
- Minnich. - Bd. 5. Minuth - Risch. -- Bd. 6.
Risch - Spiller. - Bd. 7. Spillmann - Wissmann. -- Bd.
8. [lacking].
Verzeichnis der benutzten Quellenschriften [Bibliography,
v. 1, p.[7-19]: Gesamt-Deutschland, Allgemeines.
-- Norddeutschland. -- Nordwestdeutschland. --
Rheinland und Westfalen. -- Hessen. -- Mitteldeutschland.
-- Suddeutschland und Elsass. -- Oesterreich-Ungarn,
Allgemeines. -- Oesterreich-Ungarn, Provinzielles.
-- Amerika. -- Russland. -- Ostseeprovinzen.
-- Die Schweiz. -- Frauen. -- Adel. -- Lehrer.
-- Religiose Dichtung. -- Katholiken. -- Juden.
-- Dialekt-Dichtungen. -- Jugenschriftsteller.
-- Schauspieler. -- Buhnendichtung. -- Artisten.
-- Buchhandler. -- Nachtrag.
Annotation: Volume
1 contains an excerpt from the Preface to the 1st
edition (Vorwort zur ersten Auflage), signed & dated "Nauen,
im Januar 1885, Franz Brummer." It is followed
by the "Vorwort zur sechsten (6.) Auflage, which
is dated "Nauen, Januar 1913," and signed
again "Franz
Brummer." Here,
the compiler explains that his work is being issued
for the sixth time, and that it has has been much
revised and enlarged for the third time. He defends
his decision to include newly emerging authors
alongside well-established ones with pertinent
examples: when preparing the first [1885] edition
in 1872-75, he included the barely known authors
Julius Wolff, Ernst von Wildenbruch, Otto von Leixner,
Rudolf Lindau, Oskar Blumenthal, Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem,
Elisabeth Burstenbinder, Max Eyth, Oskar Meding and
more, who all became well-known shortly afterwards.
Even in 1900, when Brummer prepared the 5th edition,
he included Gustav Frenssen who was to become very
popular within the next decade.
Brummer had solicited "biographische und bibliographische
Angaben" from 9,900 authors, and he invites his readers
to let him know of any mistakes or corrections they
might notice.
v. 2, p.439 contains an entry for
Felix Paul Greve [who was to become Frederick
Philip Grove, the Canadian author, whose archives
are here at the University of Manitoba in Archives & Special
Collections].
The Grove Archives contain a copy of the letter and
autobiographical sketch Greve submitted to Brummer
from Berlin on March 6, 1907. The original belongs
to the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, and was
first reproduced in German and English in Desmond
Pacey's fine edition of The Letters of Frederick
Philip Grove, 1976, pp. 538-541. The outline
reads like a blueprint to Grove's two autobiographical
books, A Search for America (1927, e-Ed.
2000/5),
and In Search of Myself, (1946, e-Ed.
2007).
An annotated e-edition was prepared
for the Archives' FPG & FrL Collections website in 2005.
Local Note:
This
8 v. edition of 1913 was transferred to RBR from
Dafoe Stacks in September 2000. -- Volume 8 lacking.
-- UML copy stamped "University of Manitoba / Junior
Library."
Subjects:
Authors,
German 19th century Dictionaries.
Authors,
German 19th century Bio-bibliography.
German
literature Bio-bibliography. |
