Rede über Hofmannsthal: Öffentlich gehalten am 8. September 1902 zu Göttingen. Instauransdo Restaurat.
Leipzig: Julis Zeitler, 1905. Hardcover. 8vo. 65pp. Brown paper covered boards. Top edge maroon. Forepage edge untrimmed. Brown endpapers. Work on Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874 – 1929). Written by renowned German writer and translator Rudolf Borchardt (see below). Age wear and staining to boards, with small part of head of spine chipped. Owner's signature to free front endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight. In German. Very good condition. vg. Item #19689
On the author (Source: Public Domain)
Rudolf Borchardt (1877 - 1945) was a Jewish-German writer and translator. Borchardt's language skills as well as his personal life choice isolated him as a poet of the 20th century, he became a „poeta doctus“. The son of an East Prussian merchant of Jewish heritage was shaped by the study of archeology in Bonn and Göttingen as well as by the poetry of George and Hofmannsthal. After settling in Toscany in 1903, Borchart developed a vision of ancient-European heritage, with a focus on the Ancient period as well as Dante (Medieval period). He was a lifetime friend of Hugo von Hoffmansthal.
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