biography
| name: |
Wildenbruch, Ernst von
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pronunciation:
[vildenbrukh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1845–1909)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Beirut, Lebanon, the grandson of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia and the son of the Prussian ambassador to Constantinople. He studied law, and became a judge and later a senior Prussian civil servant. He wrote poetry and very popular patriotic plays with historical themes, notably Spartakus (1873), Die Karolinger (1882), and Die Haubenlerche (1891). He became court poet in Prussia. |
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