Word: nigsberg
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...distant affairs of the heart, which never got beyond the dumbly adoring stage. When not yet 15, he, like Keats, became an apothecary's apprentice, but an injured knee forced him to give up the trade and he returned to school, and later went to the University of Königsberg. Meanwhile, he had become somewhat of an innocent lady-killer, but an experience with an anonymous married lady of easy virtue brought its not uncommon legacy of revulsion and bitterness. Already he wrote in secret...
Frau Wagner was Wagner's second wife. They had both been married previously, she to the composer von Bulow and he to Wilhelmina Planer, actress in the Königsberg theatre. Wagner died at Venice in 1883 and was buried at Wahnfried, near Bayreuth in Bavaria. It was there that King Ludwig rode alone in the dead of night to pay his last tribute to the great German...