Robert Hamerling

Robert Hamerling (March 24, 1830 – July 13, 1889) was an Austrian poet. His works include the poem Ahasver in Rom (1866), of which the emperor Nero is the central figure, and the novel Aspasia (1876), about the Periclean age of Athens. Quotes Des Mannes Parze ist das Weib. Sie ist's, die seinen Lebensfaden spinnt – dunkel oder golden. Man's destiny is woman. She it is who spins the thread of his life—dark or golden. Aspasia (1876), vol. 2, ch. 16 (tr. Mary J. Safford, 1882), vol. 2, ch. 3 See also Mór Jókai External links Aspasia. Ein Künstler- und Liebesroman aus Alt-Hellas (Leipzig: Hesse & Becker, 1876), vols. 1, 2, 3 Aspasia: A Romance of Art and Love in Ancient Hellas (New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1882), vols. 1, 2 John Watts de Peyster, An Inquiry into the Career and Character of Mary Stuart ... and a Justification of Bothwell (New York: Charles H. Ludwig, 1883), p. 75 Grace Ellison, An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem (London: Methuen & Co., Ltd. 1915), p. 84 Category:1830 births Category:1889 deaths Category:Poets from Austria Category:Novelists from Austria Category:Playwrights from Austria