Editing Gottfried Kinkel (section)

==Writings==
[[File:Kinkel-Denkmal Oberkassel.jpg|thumb|Memorial in [[Bonn|Bonn-Oberkassel]] (1906)]]
In the estimation of the [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition]] (1911), Kinkel's popularity was out of proportion to his talent.  ''Britannica'' characterized his poetry as of the sweetly sentimental type in vogue in Germany in the mid-19th century.

Kinkel's ''Gedichte'' first appeared in 1843, and went through several editions. His best works were the verse romances, ''Otto der Schütz, eine rheinische Geschichte in zwölf Abenteuern'' (1846), which by 1920 had gone through over 100 editions, and ''Der Grobschmied von Antwerpen'' (1868).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Among his other works were the [[tragedy]] ''Nimrod'' (1857), and ''Geschichte der bildenden Künste bei den christichen Völkern'' (A history of visual arts among Christians, 1845), ''Die [[Ahr]]: Landschaft, Geschichte und Volksleben'' (Landscape, history and life of the people along the Ahr, 1845), and ''Mosaik zur Kunstgeschichte'' (1876).