Eugen Hermann von Dedenroth

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Eugen Hermann von Dedenroth (born March 5, 1829 in Saarlouis , † October 16, 1887 in Kötzschenbroda ; also EH von Dedenroth ) was a German writer . He wrote under the pseudonyms Eugen Hermann , Ernst Pitawall , Julius Roge and R. Wendelin .

Life

Tomb of Dedenroth in the Radebeul-West cemetery

He was the son of the future Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Dedenroth (1786-1850) and his wife Eugenie Luise Wilhelmine Karoline, born von Pirch (1807-1895). Due to frequent transfers of his father, he attended high school in Poznan , Danzig and Berlin . Dedenroth joined the Kaiser Franz Grenadier Regiment of the Prussian Army in 1847 . In 1848 he took part in the Schleswig-Holstein War against Denmark, in the course of which he was promoted to officer. The following years in the garrison gave Dedenroth time for his literary inclinations, in 1855 his first poem The Creation was published .

In 1858 Dedenroth wrote a novella about Alexander von Humboldt , which was received negatively by the latter, and forced Dedenroth to submit his departure, because "The Lieutenant von Dedenroth has received a reprimand from the honorary council of the regiment and, in anger about it, sought and received his departure" as Karl August Varnhagen von Ense noted in his diaries.

Dedenroth wrote with great success first under the pseudonym Eugen Hermann, then Ernst Pitawall numerous short stories, historical novels, short stories and detective novels, which helped him to some prosperity.

Despite saying goodbye to the active military, he made it to the position of captain in the Gardelandwehr . In 1866 Dedenroth led a Landwehr company into the battle of Königgrätz during the war against Austria . He retired a year later because of an eye condition.

In 1873 he moved from Charlottenburg to Kötzschenbroda (Meißner Straße 222), where he continued his literary work and died on October 16, 1887. Dedenroth was buried in the Radebeul-West cemetery. His widow Luise Emilie born in 1893. Roge was also buried in the large marriage grave.

Works (selection)

  • Shine and tinsel. 1856.
  • The emperor's police. 1858.
  • Collected short stories and sketches. 1858.
    • therein A son of Alexander von Humboldt or the Indian of Maypures. 1858.
  • Bernhard Owen or the magnetizer's son. 1859.
  • Robert Hammer. 1860.
  • A German Revolution or the Carneval of 1848. 1860.
  • Life pictures. 1862.
  • Hermann, the first liberator of Germany. 1863.
  • Boudoir and salon. 2 volumes, 1863.
  • The first love of August the Strong. 1865.
  • The arsonists. 4 volumes, from 1868.
  • Cleopatra, the beautiful sorceress of the Nile. Egypt's most wonderful queen . 1869
  • The beautiful Creolin. 5 volumes, 1869.
  • The prince's mistress. 1870.
  • The unfortunate women of Henry the Eighth of England and their terrible end on the scaffold. 1872.
  • Jesuit potions. 1875.
  • Saved from the grave. 1877.
  • A drama from life. 1877.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 5, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632802 , p. 340, no. 1585.
  2. ↑ Ingo Schwarz: “Humbug and tactlessness” or “an attractive figurehead”. Alexander von Humboldt as the hero of a novella - 1858.
  3. ^ Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, diaries . Fourteenth volume. Hamburg 1870, p. 296. according to Ingo Schwarz: “Humbug and tactlessness” or “an attractive figurehead”. Alexander von Humboldt as the hero of a novella - 1858.
personal data
SURNAME Dedenroth, Eugen Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dedenroth, EH of; Hermann, Eugen (pseudonym); Pitawall, Ernst (pseudonym); Roge, Julius (pseudonym); Wendelin R. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarlouis
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1887
Place of death Kötzschenbroda