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Morgenblatt Für Gebildete Stände
The ''Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände'' ("Morning paper for the educated classes", renamed to ''Morgenblatt für gebildete Leser'', "Morning paper for educated readers" in 1837) was a German cultural and literary journal that existed from 1807 to 1865. It appeared daily (Monday to Saturday) until 1851, when it was changed to a weekly journal. The was published by Cotta (publishing house), Cotta in Tübingen and later in Stuttgart, and was the most important German literary and cultural journal of its time. Conception and history The was founded by Johann Friedrich Cotta, who had in 1806 envisioned creating a South German equivalent of , a journal edited in Berlin by August von Kotzebue, but Cotta's letters to Goethe show that the idea of having a regional focus was soon dropped. The decision to use the name (morning paper) was decided in November 1806. The topic of the was supposed to be everything that could interest an educated reader, with the exception of politics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goethe Wiederfinden
Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Political philosophy#European Enlightenment, political, and Western philosophy, philosophical thought in the Western world from the late 18th century to the present.. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre-director, and critic, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe bibliography, his works include plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. Goethe took up residence in Weimar in 1775 following the success of his first novel, ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' (1774), and joined a thriving intellectual and cultural environment under the patronage of Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess Anna Amalia that formed the basis of Weimar Classicism. He was ennobled by Karl August, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (11 October 1825 – 28 November 1898) was a Swiss poet and historical novelist, a master of literary realism who is mainly remembered for stirring narrative ballads like "Die Füße im Feuer" (The Feet in the Fire). Biography Meyer was born in Zürich. His father, who died early, was a statesman and historian, while his mother was a highly cultured woman. Throughout his childhood two traits were observed that later characterized the man and the poet: he had a most scrupulous regard for neatness and cleanliness, and he lived and experienced more deeply in memory than in the immediate present. He suffered from bouts of mental illness, sometimes requiring hospitalization; his mother, similarly but more severely afflicted, killed herself. Having finished the gymnasium, he took up the study of law, but history and the humanities were of greater interest to him. He went for considerable periods to Lausanne, Geneva, Paris, and Italy, where he interested himse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Menzel
Wolfgang Menzel (21 June 179823 April 1873) was a German poet, critic and literary historian, who was born in Waldenburg (Wałbrzych) in Prussian Silesia. Career overview He studied at the Breslau, Jena, and Bonn, and after living for some time in Aarau and Heidelberg finally settled in Stuttgart, where, from 1830 to 1838, he had a seat in the Württemberg Diet. His first work, a clever and original volume of poems, entitled ''Streckverse'' (Heidelberg, 1823), was followed in 1824-1825 by a popular ''Geschichte der Deutschen'' in three volumes and in 1829 and 1830 by ''Rubezahl and Narcissus'', the dramatized fairy-stories upon which his reputation as a poet chiefly rests. In 1851 he published the romance of ''Furore'', a lively picture of the period of the Thirty Years' War; his other writings include ''Geschichte Europas'', 1789-1815 (2 vols. Stuttgart, 1853), and histories of the German War of 1866 and of the Franco-German War of 1870-71. From 1826 to 1848 Menzel edited a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Müllner
Amandus Gottfried Adolf Müllner (18 October 177411 June 1829) was a German critic and dramatic poet. Müllner was a nephew of Gottfried August Burger, and was born at Langendorf near Weissenfels. After studying law at Leipzig he established himself as advocate at Weissenfels and made his debut as an author with the novel ''Incest, oder der Schutzgeist von Avignon''. He next wrote a few comedies for an amateur theatre in Weissenfels; these were followed by more pretentious pieces: ''Der angolische Kaler'' (1809) and ''Der Blilz'' (1814, publ. 1818), after French models. With his tragedies, however, ''Der neun- und-zwanzigste Februar'' (1812), and especially ''Die Schuld'' (1813; publ. 1816), Müllner became the representative of the so-called ''Schicksalsdramatiker'', and for several years fate-tragedies on the model of ''Die Schuld'' dominated the German stage. His later plays, ''König Yngurd'' (1817) and ''Die Albaneserin'' (1820), were less important. Notwithstanding his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Hauff
Wilhelm Hauff (29 November 180218 November 1827) was a German poet and novelist. Early life Hauff was born in Stuttgart, the son of August Friedrich Hauff, a secretary in the Württemberg ministry of foreign affairs, and Hedwig Wilhelmine Elsaesser Hauff. He was the second of four children. Hauff lost his father when he was seven years old, and his early education was practically self-gained in the library of his maternal grandfather at Tübingen, where his mother had moved after the death of her husband. In 1818 he was sent to the Klosterschule at Blaubeuren, and in 1820 began to study at the University of Tübingen. In four years he completed his philosophical and theological studies at the Tübinger Stift, graduating with a PhD. Writings On leaving the university, Hauff became tutor to the children of the Württemberg minister of war, General Baron Ernst Eugen von Hugel (1774–1849), and for them wrote his ''Märchen'' (fairy tales), which he published in his ''Märchen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlsbad Decrees
The Carlsbad Decrees () were a set of reactionary restrictions introduced in the states of the German Confederation by resolution of the Bundesversammlung on 20 September 1819 after a conference held in the spa town of Carlsbad, Austrian Empire. They banned nationalist fraternities (" Burschenschaften"), removed liberal university professors, and expanded the censorship of the press. They were aimed at quelling a growing sentiment for German unification and were passed during ongoing Hep-Hep riots which ended within a month after the resolution was passed. Background The meeting of the state's representatives was called by the Austrian Minister of State Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich after the liberal Burschenschaft student Karl Ludwig Sand had murdered the conservative writer August von Kotzebue on 23 March 1819, and an attempt had been made by apothecary Karl Löning on the life of Nassau president Karl von Ibell on 1 July 1819. In the course of the European Resto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Therese Huber
Therese Huber (7 May 1764 – 15 June 1829) was a German author. She was one of the so-called , a group of five academically active women during the mid-18th and early 19th centuries. The group consisted of daughters of academics at Göttingen University; Huber was noteworthy among them, alongside Meta Forkel-Liebeskind, Caroline Schelling, Philippine Engelhard, and Dorothea Schlözer. Life Therese Huber was born Marie Therese Heyne in Göttingen as daughter of the influential classical philologist Christian Gottlob Heyne and his first wife Therese (1730–1775), the daughter of lutenist and composer Sylvius Leopold Weiss. She married traveller and ethnologist Georg Forster in 1785. They lived in Wilno 1785–1787 and in Göttingen and Mainz 1788–1792 and had three children, but an unhappy marriage. After Forster had left Mainz for Paris as representative of the Mainz Republic, she and her lover Ludwig Ferdinand Huber, who had been living with the Forsters in Mainz, moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Rückert
Johann Michael Friedrich Rückert (16 May 1788 – 31 January 1866) was a German poet, translation, translator, and professor of Oriental languages. Biography Johann Michael Friedrich Rückert was born 16 May 1788 in Schweinfurt and was the eldest son of a lawyer, Johann Adam Rückert, and his wife, Maria Barbara ( Schwappach). He was educated at the local ''gymnasium (school), Gymnasium'' and at the universities of University of Würzburg, Würzburg and University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg. From 1816 to 1817, he worked on the editorial staff of the ''Morgenblatt'' at Stuttgart. Nearly the whole of the year 1818 he spent in Rome, and afterwards he lived for several years at Coburg (1820–1826), where he married Luise Wiethaus-Fischer in 1821. He was appointed a professor of Oriental languages at the University of Erlangen in 1826, and, in 1841, he was called to a similar position in Berlin, where he was also made a privy councillor. In 1849 he resigned his professorship at Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Böttiger
Karl August Böttiger (8 June 1760 – 17 November 1835) was a German archaeologist and classics, classicist, and a prominent member of the literary and artistic circles in Weimar and Jena. Biography Böttiger was born in Reichenbach im Vogtland, Reichenbach, in the kingdom of Saxony, and educated at Schulpforta and Leipzig. Under the influence of Johann Gottfried Herder, he was for 13 years headmaster at the Gymnasium (school), gymnasium and consistory (Protestantism), consistorial councillor in Weimar, from 1790 to 1804. For the remaining 31 years of his life, he resided at Dresden as director of the Museum of Antiquities, and was active as a journalist and public lecturer. As a schoolmaster, he had published a considerable number of pedagogic and philology, philological programs. In 1810, Böttiger with Swiss painter Heinrich Meyer released a monograph on the painting in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican known as the "Aldobrandini marriage". His archaeology, archaeological w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Haug
Friedrich Haug (Johann Christoph Friedrich Haug, born 9 March 1761 in Niederstotzingen, died 30 January 1829 in Stuttgart) was a German official and poet. Biography Haug is renowned particularly through his large number of epigrams, which he initially published under the name "Hophthalmos" (Sinngedichte, Frankfurt 1791; Epigrrams and Mixed Poems, Berlin 1805). From 1811 to 1817 he was the editor in charge of Johann Friedrich Cotta, Cotta's ''Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände, Morgenblatt''. With Friedrich Christoph Weisser, he published an epigrammatic anthology (Stuttgart 1807–1809, 10 vols.). He also published fables, ballads, and stories. Friedrich Haug was the son of Balthasar Haug, a teacher at the Karlsschule. In 1775, Haug attended this institute to study law. In 1784 he became secretary in the Ducal Secret Cabinet and court councillor and librarian in Stuttgart in 1817. Haug died on 30 January 1829. External linksCompilation of texts [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
