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Wiechert, Ernst, 1887-1950

LC control no.n 50016229
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPT2647.I25
Personal name headingWiechert, Ernst, 1887-1950
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Variant(s)Wiechert, Ernst Emil, 1887-1950
Vikhert, Ėrnst, 1887-1950
See alsoBjell, Ernst Barany, 1887-1950
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Associated countryGermany Switzerland
Associated placeEast Prussia (Germany)
Birth date1887-05-18
Death date1950-08-24
Place of birthPiersławek (Poland)
Sensburg (Germany)
Place of deathUerikon (Switzerland)
Profession or occupationAuthors Teachers
Special noteDo not confuse with: Wichert, Ernst, 1831-1902 (see NAR n 85830761)
This heading was originally established, prior to AACR2, as Wiechert, Ernst Emil, 1887-1950. However, there is no evidence in his publications for the form of name "Ernst Emil", and no mention in biographical sources of a second forename Emil.
Found inDer Knecht Gottes Andreas Nyland : Roman, 1926: title page (Ernst Wiechert)
Der Wald, 1922: title page (Ernst Wiechert)
Das einfache Leben : Roman, 1939: title page (Ernst Wiechert)
Märchen, 1981: title page (Ernst Wiechert [originally published in 1946])
Kont︠s︡ept︠s︡ii︠a︡ cheloveka v maloĭ proze Ėrnsta Vikherta, 2008: title page (Ėrnsta Vikherta) page 4 (Ėrnsta Vikherta, 1885-1950)
Hirtennovelle, 1945: title page (Ernst Wiechert) page 109 (Ernst Wiechert; born May 18, 1887, in Forsthaus Kleinort, Kreis Sensburg, East Prussia; died August 24, 1950, in Uerikon near Zurich, Switzerland; his father was the forester Emil Martin Wiechert; he wrote his first book in 1913; he was forbidden to travel abroad from 1938 on; from May until August, 1938, he was interned in Buchenwald concentration camp; until 1945 he was under Gestapo surveillance)
German Wikipedia, viewed April 24, 2020 (Ernst Wiechert; born May 18, 1887 in Kleinort, Kreis Sensburg, in Masuria, East Prussia (now Piersławek in Poland); died August 24, 1950, in Uerikon in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland; German author and teacher; he was one of the most widely-read German authors from the 1930's into the 1950's and is counted as a member of the so-called Innere Emigration during the Hitler regime; his first novel (Die Flucht) was published in Berlin in 1916 under the pseudonym Ernst Barany Bjell; he wrote novels and short stories and was also known for his "Reden an die Jugend" ("Speeches to the young"))
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek online catalog, viewed April 27, 2020 (authorized access point: Wiechert, Ernst; other data in authority record: born 1887 in Piersławek; died 1950 in Uerikon; German author of East Prussian heritage)
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