!!!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.



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