Samhaber, Edward Eduard Mathias#
Samhaber, Edward (Eduard Mathias), b. Freistadt (Upper Austria), Dec. 26, 1846, d. Linz (Upper Austria), March 27, 1927, literary historian, poet and playwright. Grammar school teacher in Freistadt and Ljubljana, 1888-1904 worked at the teachers´ training college in Linz, after his retirement free-lance writer. His poetic works evinced formal perfection, adaptations of Old High German and Middle High German texts (Walther von der Vogelweide, 1882).
Further works#
poetic works: Dichtungen, 1887; Lyr. Dichtungen, 1890; Die vier Jahreszeiten, 1907. - Dramas: Marina, 1869; Der Wiedertaeufer, 1886; Dido, 1886; Zu spaet, 1899. - Adaptations: Das Ludwigslied, 1877; Preširenklaenge, 1880. - Editions: Gesammelte Werke, 5 vols., 1909-1910; Ausgewaehlte Dichtungen, 1926.Literature#
F. Strohmaier, E. S., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1936.