Wilhelm Meinhold
{{Short description|German novelist (1797–1851)}}
Johannes Wilhelm Meinhold (27 February 1797Bridgwater (2000), p. 213. – 30 November 1851) was a Pomeranian priest and author.
Life
Meinhold was born in Lütow on the island of Usedom, where his father Georg Wilhelm Meinhold (1767–1728) was a Lutheran priest.
Growing up in the atmosphere of the Napoleonic Wars, he enrolled as a student at the University of Greifswald in Swedish Pomerania in the fall of 1813. After his theological education, he was priest in Koserow on Usedom from 1821 until 1827.Goetz (2007), p. 81. For the next 17 years, he was priest in Krummin, also on Usedom, before he relocated to Farther Pomerania.
He retired early on account of his insubordinate behavior and died in 1851 in Berlin-Charlottenburg.Dubilski (2003), p. 109.
Meinhold was a poet, playwright, and novelist.Mike Ashley (1977) Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 130.
Works
Meinhold's best known works are two historical Gothic romance novels:
- Maria Schweidler, die Bernsteinhexe, which was first published anonymously in 1838.{{cite book |last=Garland |first=Henry |date=1997| edition= 3rd |page=574 |title=The Oxford Companion to German Literature |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-815896-3 }} It was translated into English as The Amber Witch by Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (1821–1869) in 1843.
- Sidonia von Bork, die Klosterhexe (1847), which was translated into English as Sidonia the Sorceress by Jane Wilde, the mother of Oscar Wilde, in 1849. The book was printed by William Morris' Kelmscott Press in 1894. (See Sidonia von Borcke.)
References
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=Source list=
- {{cite book |last1=Bridgwater |first1=Patrick |editor1-last=Stark |editor1-first=Susanne |title=The novel in Anglo-German context: cultural cross-currents and affinities; papers from the conference held at the University of Leeds from 15 to 17 September 1997 |chapter=Who is Afraid of Sidonia von Bork? |url=https://archive.org/details/novelinanglogerm0000unse |accessdate=2009-07-14 |year=2000 |publisher=Rodopi |isbn=90-420-0698-6 |url-access=registration }}
- {{cite book |last1=Dubilski |first1=Petra |language=German |title=Usedom |chapter=Der Pfarrer von Koserow und die Bernsteinhexe |url=https://archive.org/details/usedom00petr |accessdate=2009-07-14 |year=2003 |publisher=DuMont |isbn=3-7701-5978-0 |url-access=registration }}
- {{cite book |last1=Goetz |first1=Rolf | last2=Walden-Awodu | first2=Dagmar | language=German | title=ADAC Reiseführer Usedom | chapter=Seebad Koserow |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YkvFS0sohh0C&pg=PA81 |accessdate=2009-07-14 |year=2007 |publisher=ADAC Verlag |isbn=978-3-89905-523-8}}
External links
- [http://sites.google.com/site/sidoniavonborkdieklosterhexe Sidonia von Bork die Klosterhexe, original German Text 1847-1848]
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Category:People from Vorpommern-Greifswald
Category:German historical novelists
Category:Writers of the Romantic era
Category:People from the Province of Pomerania