Bogumil Goltz

Bogumil Goltz (20 March 1801 – 12 November 1870) was a German humorist and satirist known mostly for his work Buch der Kindheit ("Book of Childhood").

After attending the classical schools of Marienwerder and Königsberg, he learned farming on an estate near Thorn, and in 1821 entered the University of Breslau as a student of philosophy.

But he soon abandoned an academic career and, after returning for a while to country life, retired to the small town of Gollub, where he devoted himself to literary studies.

[1] Goltz is best known to literary fame by his Buch der Kindheit ("Book of Childhood", Frankfurt, 1847; 4th ed., Berlin, 1877), in which, after the style of Jean Paul and Adalbert Stifter, but with a more modern realism, he gives a charming and idyllic description of the impressions of his own childhood.

Goltz's works have not been collected, but a selection will be found in Reclam's Universalbibliothek (edited by P. Stein, 1901 and 1906).