Jump to content

Georg Christian Dieffenbach

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Aristophanes68 (talk | contribs) at 03:54, 15 March 2017 (→‎References: clean up using AWB). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Georg Christian Dieffenbach (4 December 1822 Schlitz, Hesse - 10 May 1901 Schlitz) was a German poet and theologian.

Biography

Dieffenbach was educated at Giessen and was made chief pastor in Schlitz in 1871. His poems for children are still very popular in Germany. He also wrote many liturgical, devotional, homiletic and poetical works, which attained a great degree of popularity.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Rines 1920.

References

  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Dieffenbach, Georg Christian" . Encyclopedia Americana.


Flag of GermanyWriter icon

This article about a poet from Germany is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Georg_Christian_Dieffenbach&oldid=770393633"