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German poet
Sigmund von Birken
(25 April 1626 ? 12 June 1681) was a German
poet
of the
Baroque
. He was born in
Wildstein
, near
Eger
, and died in
Nuremberg
, aged 55.
His pupil,
Sibylle Ursula von Braunschweig-Luneburg
wrote part of a novel,
Die Durchlauchtige Syrerin Aramena
(
Aramena, the noble Syrian lady
), which when complete would be the most famous courtly novel in German Baroque literature; it was finished by her brother
Anton Ulrich
and edited by Sigmund von Birken.
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Further reading
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- Hellmut Rosenfeld (1955),
"Birken, Sigmund v."
,
Neue Deutsche Biographie
(in German), vol. 2, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 256?257
- Ferdinand Spehr
(1875), "
Birken, Sigmund von
",
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
(in German), vol. 2, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 660?661
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