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Woldemar Nürnberger
1818–1869
A 19th-century German physician who also built a literary life, he wrote poems and stories marked by travel, observation, and a darkly thoughtful streak. Publishing under names such as M. Solitaire, he moved between medicine and literature with unusual ease.
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Faust: Ein Gedicht
by Woldemar Nürnberger
About the author
Born on October 1, 1818, in Sorau, Woldemar Nürnberger was a German doctor and writer. He came from a Huguenot family and was the son of Joseph Emil Nürnberger, a senior Prussian postal official who also wrote. He studied medicine in Berlin, Leipzig, and Halle, and later worked as a physician in Landsberg an der Warthe.
Alongside his medical career, he wrote poetry and prose, sometimes using the pseudonyms M. Solitaire and Hilarius Bierfreund. Reference works describe him as the author of works including Josephus Faust and several stories, and note that his writing was shaped in part by extensive travel through Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, southern France, and North Africa.
Nürnberger died on April 17, 1869. Though not widely known today, he stands out as one of those 19th-century figures whose professional life and literary imagination grew side by side.