Nik Welter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Luxembourgish writer (1871-1951)
Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1871
Place of Birth: Mersch, Luxembourg District, Luxembourg
Date of Death: 13-Jul-1951
Profession: writer, politician, literary critic, literary historian
Nationality: Luxembourg
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Nik Welter
- Nikolaus “Nik” Welter (2 January 1871, Mersch – 13 July 1951, Luxembourg City) was a Luxembourgish writer, playwright, poet, professor, literary critic (Germanic and Romance languages), and statesman.
- He wrote predominantly in German.
- He also served as a Minister for Education in the government of Émile Reuter. After his university studies in Leuven, Paris, Bonn and Berlin, he became a teacher in Diekirch (1897-1906) and later at the Athénée de Luxembourg in Luxembourg City (1906-1918). Welter mainly wrote plays and poetry.
- His work Griselinde (1901) inspired the Luxembourgish composer Alfred Kowalsky to write the opera of the same name.
- Other well-known works are Die Söhne des Öslings, Goethes Husar, Der Abtrünnige, Professor Forster and Lene Frank. From early on, Nik Welter was involved with the Félibrige, a poets' movement in the Provence, and was in contact with the members of the Felibertum félibrige: Frédéric Mistral, Joseph Roumanille and Théodore Aubanel.
- He was often at Mistral's house in Bouches-du-RhĂ´ne and was taken up into the circle of the FĂ©liber.
- In the same way, he also met German Romanists such as Eduard Koschwitz and August Bertuch.
- Along with the two German Romanists, he campaigned successfully for Frédéric Mistral to be awarded the 1904 Nobel Prrize for Literature.
- Nik Welter recorded his travels in the Provence and in Tunisia in the book Hohe Sonnentage.
- In his book Im Werden und Wachsen, he wrote about his childhood in Mersch.
- He was the author of the first Luxembourgish schoolbook Das Luxemburgische und sein Schrifttum.
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