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. ; 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. |
