Вебер, Леопольд

Леопольд Вебер (Leopold Weber; 24 января 1866, Петербург - ноябрь 1944, Мюнхен) - немецкий писатель и переводчик, выпускник Петришуле 1884 года.

Биография

Леопольд Вебер родился в семье The son of German immigrants studied not finish the German in Munich and lived from 1888 to 1894 in Partenkirchen , together with Ernst Kreidolf . After an intermezzo 1894/95 on the farm of his brothers in Oregon , he returned to Germany and worked until 1905 as a critic of the magazine Kunstwart in Munich.He then continued his studies and received his doctorate in 1912. For military service in the First World War he volunteered. 1918 to 1923 he was librarian in the Bavarian State Library in Munich, then a freelance writer. He published retellings of medieval Germanic myths and legends, but also fantastic stories. Works (selection) [ edit ]Poems , 1894Vincent Haller , novella, 1902The gods of the Edda , 1919Asgard . The gods of our ancestors , 1920Midgard . The heroic sagas of the North in 1922Dream figures , 1922Gisli, the forest walkers from the heroic age of Iceland , 1927Walthari and Hildegund: The Gotengeiseln the Huns. A mass migration Sage , 1928Grettir the Wolfsgenoß. Anathema to the Eisfernern Islands , 1929Njal the seer. An Icelandic heroic saga , 1930With Ernst Kreidolf in the Bavarian mountains 1889-1895 , 1933The Odyssey German , 1936Emigrants fates. German farmers and craftsmen sons in Russia , 1937 (edited by Karl Plenzat )Boys holiday on the Baltic Sea: My youth in Baltic and Russian lands , 1938Translations (selection) [ edit ]Russian narrator , two volumes, 1923/25Dorothea Reinhardt: The Prince of the Himalayas , 1927External links [ Edit ]Literature by and about Leopold Weber in the catalog of the German National LibraryStandard data (Person): GND : 11716710X | LCCN : nr97012458 | VIAF : 54918976 | Wikipedia People SearchCategories :AuthorFantastic LiteratureLiterature (German)Literature (20th century)GermanBorn in 1866Died in 1944Man