Ernst Eckstein

Ernst Eckstein (6 February 1845, Giessen, Grand Duchy of Hesse –18 November 1900) was a German humorist, novelist and poet.

Biography From the university he went to Paris, where he completed his comic epos, Check to the Queen (1870), and wrote Paris Silhouettes (1873), the grotesque night-piece The Varzin Ghosts, and the Mute of Seville. Later he wrote the stories Margherita, At the Tomb of Cestius, The Mosque at Cordova. He was editor of a literary and critical journal, Hall of Poets, and of a humorous weekly, The Wag, at Leipzig, for some years, and in 1885 settled in Dresden. He also wrote The Claudii, Aphrodite, a Story of Ancient Hellas, Decius the Flute-player: a Merry Story of a Musician in Ancient Rome.

Works Venus Urania, 1872 Humoresken, 1875/82 Beiträge zur Geschichte des Feuilletons, 1876 Lisa Toscanella (Novellae), 1876 Pariser Leben, 1876 Ein Pessimist (Comedy), 1877 Sturmnacht (Novellae), 1878 Die Claudier (Novel), 1881 Prusias. Roman aus dem letzten Jahrhundert der römischen Republik, 1884 Jorinde (Novel), 1888 Nero (Novel), 1889 Das Kind (Novellae), 1893 Verstehen wir Deutsch? Volkstümliche Sprachuntersuchungen, 1894 Familie Hartwig (Novel), 1894 Roderich Löhr (Novel), 1896 Willibald Menz. Lavafluten (Novel), 1898 Die Klosterschülerin (Novel), 1899 Die Märchenprinzessin (Novel), 1901 Gesammelte Schulhumoresken, 1907