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Emil Rittershaus
Rittershaus in an illustration published 1870
Born	(1834-04-03)3 April 1834 Barmen, Germany
Died	8 March 1897(1897-03-08) (aged 62) Barmen, Germany
Resting place	Heckinghausen
Occupation(s)	poet, librettist, writer, merchant
Spouse	Hedwig Rittershaus
Children	Walther Rittershaus, Alfred Rittershaus, Julius Rittershaus, Adeline Rittershaus, Helene Schaper

Friedrich Emil Rittershaus (3 April 1834 – 8 March 1897) was a German poet.

Biography

He was born in Barmen (now Wuppertal), Kingdom of Prussia. His poetry, marked by simple feeling, fine diction, and original matter, won great popularity. He died in Barmen. His daughter, Adeline, was a philologist, scholar, and champion for the equality of women.

He was a member of the Wuppertal poets' circle in the 1850s. He knew Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and wrote several letters to them in 1867–1868.

Gallery

• A statue of Rittershaus in the Barmer Anlagen (a park) in Wuppertal
• The statue's plaque, it reads "To the poet and philanthropist, established in 1900"

Selected works

• — (1880) . Gedichte [Poems] (6th ed.). Breslau: Eduard Trewendt. OCLC 608819518.
• Westfalenlied [de] (Westphalia Anthem; 1886)
• — (1890) . Buch der Leidenschaft [Book of Passion] (in German) (3rd ed.). OCLC 68063153.
• — (1893) . In Bruderliebe und Brudertreue [In brotherly love and brotherly loyalty] (in German). Hesse. OCLC 1133304482.
• — (1893). Spruchperlen heitrer lebenskunst [Proverbs of cheerful life] (in German). Berlin: G. Grote. OCLC 798559250.
• — (1900) . Am Rhein und beim Wein Gedichte (4th stereotype ed.). Bonn: Strauß. OCLC 1068827667.

References

1. Gilman 1905.
2. Hermand 1998, p. 124.
3. "Emil Rittershaus". www.megadigital.bbaw.de. Retrieved 10 May 2024.

• Hermand, Jost (1998). "Die Wuppertaler Dichterbünde". Die deutschen Dichterbünde: von den Meistersingern bis zum PEN-Club [The German Poets' Associations: From the Meistersingers to the PEN-CLUB] (in German). Weimar Wien: Böhlau. pp. 124–126. ISBN 978-3-412-09897-1. OCLC 39515747.

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Rittershaus, Emil" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

Further reading

• Traeger, Albert (1870). "Ein Dichter des Wupperthales" [A poet from Wuppertal]. Die Gartenlaube (in German) (24): 373–375.

External links

• Works by Emil Rittershaus at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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