Ottomar Enking

Born in Kiel in 1867, he became a German writer and literature professor whose work is closely linked with the Heimatkunst tradition. Reference sources identify him as a novelist and professor, and describe him as a writer who often portrayed North German small-town settings in his novels and novellas.

He wrote in several forms, including fiction, drama, lyric poetry, and translation. The work most often singled out as his best-known success is Familie P. C. Behm, published in 1903.

Some sources on his life disagree with the date of his death, but major library and biographical records list him as having died in Dresden in 1945. A surviving 1911 portrait by Oskar Zwintscher also reflects the literary reputation he had achieved during his lifetime.