Ernst Wichert

Ernst Alexander August George Wichert (11 March 1831–21 January 1902) was a German author and jurist.

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Biography

Wichert was born in Insterburg, Prussia (today Chernyakhovsk, Russia) and visited school in Pillau and Königsberg.

He studied law at the University of Königsberg and worked as an assessor in Memel. In 1860 Wichert became a district judge in Prökuls (today Priekulė, Lithuania). In 1863 he returned to Königsberg as a judge at the local court and became an Oberlandesgerichtsrat in 1877 (sometimes also 1879 is reported). In 1888 Wichert moved to Berlin, where he became Kammergerichtsrat at the Berlin Kammergericht, retired in 1896 and died in 1902.[1]

While performing his duties as a judge, Ernst Wichert published 34 stage plays, 28 novels and 15 multi-volumed novellas.

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Stage plays

Novels and novellas

Autobiography

Screen adaption

Literature

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