Adolf Bartels

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Adolf Bartels (15 November 1862—7 March 1945) was a German journalist and poet. Known for his völkisch worldview, he has been seen as a harbinger of National Socialist anti-Semitism.^{[citation needed]}

Bartels was born at Wesselburen, in Holstein, and educated at Leipzig and Berlin.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Poetic and dramatic works 1.2 Criticism and literary history 2 Bibliography

[edit] Works

[edit] Poetic and dramatic works

• Gedichte (1889)
• Dichterleben (1890)
• Aus der meerumschlungenen Heimat (1895)
• Der dumme Teufel, a mock epic (1896)
• Martin Luther, a trilogy (1903)

[edit] Criticism and literary history

• Friedrich Gessler (1892)
• Die deutsche Dichtubg der Gegenwart (1897)
• Geschichte der deutschen Litteratur (two volumes, 1901-02)
• Adolf Stern (1905)
• Heinrich Heine (1906)
• Gerhart Hauptmann (1906)
• Deutscher Litteratur Einsichten und Aussichten (1907)
• Deutsches Schrifttum (1911)

[edit] Bibliography

• Fuller, Steven Nyole. Nazis' Literary Grandfather: Adolf Bartels and Cultural Extremism, 1871-1945, Peter Lang Pub Inc, 1996 (ISBN 0-8204-2329-7).
• Rees, Philip. Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1991, (ISBN 0-13-089301-3).

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.