Sigmund von Birken
Sigmund von Birken (25 April 1626 – 12 June 1681) was a German poet of the Baroque. He was born in Wildstein, near Eger, and died in Nuremberg, aged 55.
His pupil, Sibylle Ursula von Braunschweig-Lüneburg wrote part of a novel, Die Durchlauchtige Syrerin Aramena (Aramena, the noble Syrian lady), which when complete would be the most famous courtly novel in German Baroque literature; it was finished by her brother Anton Ulrich and edited by Sigmund von Birken.
Further reading
- Hellmut Rosenfeld (1955), "Birken, Sigmund v.", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 2, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 256–257
- Ferdinand Spehr (1875), "Birken, Sigmund von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 2, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 660–661