Wilhelm Kosch
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Occupation(s)Historian of literature, lexicographer
Wilhelm Kosch | |
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| Born | 2 October 1879 |
| Died | 20 December 1960 (aged 81) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian of literature, lexicographer |
Wilhelm Franz Josef Kosch (2 October 1879 – 20 December 1960) was an Austrian historian of literature and theatre and lexicographer. The lexicon that he conceived and later revised several times, the Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon is a references in the field of German literature.
Born in Drahany in Moravia, Kosch died in Vienna in 1960 at age 81.
- A. Stifter. Festschrift, 1905
- Martin Greif in seinen Werken,[1] 1907
- Die Deutschen in Österreich und ihr Ausgleich mit den Tschechen,[2] 1909
- Menschen und Bücher. Essays 1912
- Melchior Diepenbruck, 1913
- Das deutsche Theater und Drama (im 19. Jahrhundert) seit Schillers Tod,[3] Vier Quellen Verlag, Leipzig (1913)
- M. Sailer, 1914
- Martin von Cochem, 1915
- Feldmarschall Graf Radetzky,[4] 1915
- J. von Eichendorff, 1923
- Das katholische Deutschland,[5] (A–S), 1933, (1938)
- Luise von Eichendorff in her letters to Adalbert Stifter. Der Wächter Verlag, Nymwegen 1940 and 1948.
Publisher
- Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Biographisches und bibliographisches Handbuch I (1949) – 4 (1958); 2nd edition 1947–1958; 3rd edition 1966
- Das katholische Deutschland (A – Schlüter), 1933–1938
- Biographisches Staatshandbuch 1–2, 1963
- Deutsches Theater-Lexikon (A – Rostok), 1953–1966; Revision by Ingrid Bigler-Marschall, 2013.
