Wilhelm Mohr (3 December 1838 in Münstereifel - 25 November 1888 in Silesia) was a German journalist and employee of the Kölnische Zeitung.[1][2]

Biography

Wilhelm Mohr first studied theology in Bonn. In 1863, he received a doctorate on Sophocles. In 1864 he found a job as a teacher at the Marzellengymnasium in Cologne. From 1869 to 1871 he worked as a journalist in Rome and Florence. Then from 1874 to 1875 he also worked as a journalist in Spain.

In August 1876 he wrote the letters of a patron saint to the Kölnische Zeitung while in Bayreuth.

In 1883 Wilhelm Mohr visited America to attend the opening of the Northern Pacific Railway as a representative of the Kölnische Zeitung, then stayed in Italy for another year (Turin exhibition in 1884).[3]

Works

  • The founding of music. An epilogue to the laying of the foundation stone in Baireuther. Cologne 1872.
  • Eighteen months in Spain. Cologne 1876.
  • Richard Wagner and the artwork of the future in the light of the Baireuther performance. Cologne 1876.
  • With a return ticket to the Pacific Ocean. Stuttgart 1884.
  • Antwerp. The general exhibition in letters to the Kölnische Zeitung. Cologne 1885.

References

  1. ↑ Dovifat, Emil (1998). Emil Dovifat: Studien und Dokumente zu Leben und Werk. p. 44. ISBN 9783110157710.
  2. ↑ Oergel, Maike (1998). The Return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen: National Myth in Nineteenth-Century English and German Literature (European Cultures). p. 241. ISBN 9783110150841.
  3. ↑ KATALOG DER DEUTSCHEN NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK
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