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Hans Sachs

446 words, approx. 2 pages

The German poet Hans Sachs (1494-1576) made Nuremberg famous in his time as a center of Meistergesang.Born in Nuremberg, the son of a tailor of the upper middle class, Hans Sachs was apprenticed to a ... Read more

Hans Sachs

3,823 words, approx. 13 pages

Although chiefly remembered today as the genial shoemaker-poet and leader of Nuremberg's Meistersinger Guild in Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1862; translated as The Mast... Read more

Hans Sachs

4,591 words, approx. 16 pages

. Biography EssayAlthough chiefly remembered today as the genial shoemaker-poet and leader of Nuremberg's Meistersinger Guild in Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (1862; translate... Read more