Nikolaus Welter

Nikolaus Welter, known as Nik Welter, was born on 2 January 1871 in Mersch, the son of a postman. After the Athénée, he studied at Leuven, Paris, Bonn and Berlin, taught at the lycée in Diekirch and then, from 1906, at the Athénée in Luxembourg, and from 1918 to 1921, without belonging to any party, was Minister of Public Instruction in the Reuter government. Close to Frédéric Mistral, he wrote almost everything in German, dramas, poems and memoirs, and is regarded as the first historian of Luxembourg literature. He died in Luxembourg on 13 July 1951.

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• TheatreDie Söhne des ÖslingsNikolaus Welter · 1904not translated into EnglishLiterature