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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884)

Geibel, Emanuel (gī’bel). A German poet; born in Lübeck, Oct. 18, 1815; died there, April 6, 1884. He was a versatile writer, publishing several volumes of verse chiefly on clerical subjects, and tragedies frequently drawn from Germanic antiquity: ‘King Roderich’ (1843); ‘King Sigurd’ (1846); ‘Brunhild’ (1858); ‘Sophonisbe’ (1869). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).