Wilhelm Meinhold (1797-1851) was a Pomeranian priest and author. He was a poet, playwright, and novelist, whose best known works are two historical Gothic romance novels: Maria Schweidler, die Bernsteinhexe, which was first published anonymously in 1838 and translated into English as The Amber Witch in 1843; and Sidonia von Bork, die Klosterhexe (1847), which was translated into English as Sidonia...