Berthold Auerbach
Berthold Auerbach (28 February 1812 – 8 February 1882) was a German poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions.
Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten (Tales of Villages in the Black Forest; 1843)
Barfüssele (1856)
Edelweiss (1861)
Joseph im Schnee (Joseph in the Snow; 1861)
(On the Heights; 1865)
Auf der Höhe
Das Landhaus am Rhein (A Country House on the Rhein; 1869)
Waldfried (1874) draws literary inspiration from German unity and the
Franco-Prussian War
Nach dreissig Jahren (1876)
Der Forstmeister (1879)
Brigitta (1880)
Briefe an seinen Freund Jakob Auerbach (Letters to His Friend ; posthumous, with a preface by Friedrich Spielhagen, 2 vols., 1884)
Jakob Auerbach
Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1998, ISBN 3-486-56337-8.
Andreas W. Daum
Jonathan Skolnik, "Writing Jewish History Between Gutzkow and Goethe: Auerbach's Spinoza" in Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History (1999)