Heinrich Landesmann (9 August 1821,
Nikolsburg – 4 December 1902,
Brno
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), more commonly known by his pseudonym, Hieronymus Lorm, was an Austrian
poet and philosophical writer.
From his earliest childhood he was very
sickly; at the age of fifteen his
sight and
hearing were almost completely destroyed; and later in life he became totally
blind. He developed the
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, a form of
tactile signing named after him.
When he was sixteen years old he contributed a number of
poems to various
periodicals. In 1843 he completed his first important literary production, ''Abdul'', the
Mohammedan
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Faust legend, in five
cantos (2nd ed. Berlin, 1852).
His ''Wien's Poetische Schwingen und Federn'' (
Vienna, 1847) manifested critical acumen, but also a tinge of political acerbity in its attack on the censor system of the Austrian chancellor Prince
Metternich. His friends advised Landesmann to leave Vienna, and he went to
Berlin, where he assumed the
pseudonym ''Hieronymus Lorm'' in order to secure his family from possible trouble with the Viennese police. In Berlin he became a regular contributor to Kühne's ''Europa.'' After the
revolution of 1848 he returned to Vienna, settling in
Baden bei Wien
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in 1853.
Landesmann, Heinrich; Ps. Hieronymus Lorm (1821-1902), Schriftsteller und Journalist
" ''Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950'', vol. 4, issue 20 (1969), p. 428-429.
In 1856 he married; in 1873 he moved to Dresden; and in 1892 he settled in Brünn (Brno
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). A sister of Landesmann's was the second wife of Berthold Auerbach. Landesmann was distinctively a lyric poet. The peculiar vein of pessimism that runs through both his poetry and his prose writings has won for him the title of the "lyrical Schopenhauer".
Works
His more important works are:
* ''Ein Zögling des Jahres 1848
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''
his first novel
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(3 vols., Vienna, 1855; 3d ed., 1863, under the title '' Gabriel Solmar''), in which he treats, among other subjects, of the struggle of the modern Jew against the prejudices of his fellow citizens.
* '' Am Kamin'' (2 vols., Berlin, 1856)
* '' Erzählungen des Heimgekehrten'' (Prague, 1858)
* '' Intimes Leben'' (ib. 1860)
* ''Novellen'' (2 vols., Vienna, 1864)
* '' Gedichte'' (Hamburg, 1870; 7th ed., 1894)
* '' Philosophisch-Kritische Streifzüge'' (Berlin, 1873)
* '' Geflügelte Stunden. Leben, Kritik, Dichtung'' (3 vols., Leipzig, 1875)
* the dramas ''Das Forsthaus
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* Dame Allan's Schools, Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
* Danish Aviation Systems, a supplier and developer of unmanned aerial vehicles
* Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, a former Colombian ...
'', ''Hieronymus Napoleon
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* Albanian: Jeronimi
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* ...
'', and '' Die Alten und die Jungen'' (1875)
* '' Der Naturgenuss. Eine Philosophie der Jahreszeiten'' (Berlin, 1876)
* ''Neue Gedichte'' (Dresden, 1877)
* '' Todte Schuld'' (2 vols., Stuttgart, 1878)
* '' Späte Vergeltung'' (2 vols., Hamburg, 1879)
* '' Der Ehrliche Name'' (2 vols., Dresden, 1880)
* '' Wanderer's Ruhebank'' (Leipzig, 1881)
* '' Ausserhalb der Gesellschaft'' (ib. 1881)
* ''Der Abend zu Hause
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Places
* Darkənd, Azerbaijan
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'' (Breslau, 1881)
* '' Ein Schatten aus Vergangenen Tagen'' (Stuttgart, 1882)
* '' Ein Kind des Meeres'' (Dresden, 1882)
* ''Der Fahrende Geselle
Der or DER may refer to:
Places
* Darkənd, Azerbaijan
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* d'Entrecasteaux Ridge, an oceanic ridge in the south-west Pacific Ocean ...
'' (Leipzig, 1884)
* ''Vor dem Attentat
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Science, technology and medicine
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'' (Dresden, 1884)
* '' Natur und Geist im Verhältnis zu den Kulturepochen'' (Teschen, 1884)
* '' Die Schöne Wienerin'' (Jena, 1886)
* '' Das Leben Kein Traum'' (Breslau, 1887)
* '' Auf dem Einsamen Schlosse'' (1887)
* '' Die Muse des Glücks und Moderne Einsamkeit'' (Dresden, 1893)
* ''Der Grundlose Optimismus
Der or DER may refer to:
Places
* Darkənd, Azerbaijan
* Dearborn (Amtrak station) (station code), in Michigan, US
* Der (Sumer), an ancient city located in modern-day Iraq
* d'Entrecasteaux Ridge, an oceanic ridge in the south-west Pacific Ocea ...
'' (Vienna, 1894)
References
Bibliography
* Karpeles, Gustav.
Hieronymus Lorm: Ein Nachruf
" '' Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums'', December 12, 1902, p. 593-595
*
Landesmann, Heinrich
" ''Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
or was a major encyclopedia in the German language that existed in various editions, and by several titles, from 1839 to 1984, when it merged with the .
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'', 6th revised and expanded edition. Volume 12. Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1905. p. 102
*
Lorm, Hieronymus
" ''Biographisches Schriftsteller-Lexikon der Gegenwart''. Edited by Franz Bornmüller. Leipzig: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1882. p. 443
* Wolf, A. L.
Hieronymus Lorm
" ''Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums'', August 1, 1891, p. 375-377
* '' Oesterreichische Wochenschrift'', December 12, 1902
*
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