Heinrich Smidt

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Heinrich Smidt, 1850

Heinrich Smidt (born December 18, 1798 in Altona , † September 3, 1867 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Heinrich Smidt went to sea for ten years and took it from sailor to helmsman . In 1824 he began a study of the law and "fine arts" at the universities of Kiel and Berlin . In Berlin he became an editor for the state newspaper and worked for the magazine for foreign literature .

In 1848 he became a member of the naval commission and employee of the naval department in the Berlin War Ministry, for which he last worked as an archivist . He was in contact with Ludwig Devrient , Theodor Fontane a . a. and was a member of the tunnel over the Spree literature group . He used his experience at sea and his knowledge of the country and its people in numerous short stories , novellas , novels , plays and books for young people , which earned him the reputation of a “German Marryat ”. In his sea stories and poems he used the motif of the Flying Dutchman several times .

Heinrich Smidt died in Berlin in 1867 at the age of 68 and was buried in the Luisenstadt cemetery . The grave has not been preserved.

Awards and honors

Works

Sketches, stories, short stories, novels

  • Sea painting by Heinrich Smidt , 1828
  • The battle painting by Fehrbellin. Historical novella , 1829
  • The cherry pit. Novella , 1829
  • Hamburg's Catonen. A historical narrative from the seventeenth century , 1829
  • Messages from the diary of a Nordic sailor , 1830
  • Burgrave Friedrich von Hohenzollern zu Kostnitz. Historical novella , 1831
  • Novellas , 1832
  • Ludwig Devrient , 1833
  • Seaman's legends and fairy tales of boatmen , 1835–1836
  • Hamburg Pictures. Reality in a romantic guise , 1836–1837
  • My sea life. Truth and No Poetry , 1837
  • Berliners and Spaniards. Novella , 1837
  • The Siege of Glückstadt , 3 vols., 1838
  • Lake novellas. Stories of Burkhardt the helmsman , 1838
  • A trip to Heligoland and the legends of the Lower Elbe , 1839
  • The magic garden. Fairy tales for children big and small , 1841
  • Secondary flowers. Stories, drawing sheets and genre pictures , 1841
  • Heinrich Flaggentrost. A lake novel , 1842
  • Altonaer Pictures. Genre - Pictures and Sketches , 1843
  • The log book. Scherz und Ernst zur See , 1844
  • The grain tithe. Tale from the history of Ditmar , 1849
  • The five number devil. A story from life , 1849
  • The mountain driver . Romantic story from the times of the Hanseatic League , 3 vols., 1850
  • Schleswig-Holstein's struggle for freedom in the 13th century or The Day of Bernhard. Historical novel , 1851
  • Devrient Novellas , 1852
  • The inner voice. A farm at sea. The shipbuilder and his journeyman. 3 stories , 1852
  • Green land and blue waves. Novellas , 1853
  • Sea stories and naval pictures , 1855
  • On water and land. Stories from the lake and from the fasten wall , 1857
  • North Sea and Ocean. New sea stories. Narrated to the German youth , 1857
  • Scandinavia's princes and peoples. Historical novel from the 14th century , 1858
  • Mr. Reindeer Rosentipfel and his two nephews. Comical novel from the harmless days of golden Berlin , 1859
  • Marine images. New Sea Tales , 1859
  • Cradle songs, nurse rhymes and nursery jokes in Low German dialect , 1859
  • Falcon and Dove or Swedes in South America. Romantic tale from the times of the first colonial beginnings , 1860
  • Bells and bells. Cheerful stories , 1860
  • Here is Denmark! Here Schleswig! or the brotherly feud. Historical novel , 1861
  • A sale of souls or what is East India paying for? Historical-romantic maritime history from the days of the Dutch-East India Company , 1861
  • Calm and high seas. New Maritime Tales , 1861
  • The prince's page. As sown, so armed. Two short stories for the mature youth , 1861
  • Uncle Heinrich. On the lighthouse. Two stories from the life of a seaman , 1861
  • Seed and fruit, or farmers and boatmen. A story from the Lower Elbe , 1862
  • This world and the hereafter or Spaniard and mulatto. Romantic story in 2 books , 1863
  • Michael de Ruiter. Pictures from Holland's Navy , 1863
  • German ships and Danish capers. A story from the 16th century , 1864
  • Jan Blaufink, or lake and theater. A story from Hamburg , 1864
  • Inside the red bin. Novell book of the Lower Elbe , 1865
  • Admiral Carpfänger, or German Fleet Life from yesterday. A seaman's life told to German youth , 1865
  • Bacchus or father-in-law? A History of Old Hamburg , 1865
  • A sailor from Berlin. Sea novel , 1866

Plays

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Smidt  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 83.
personal data
SURNAME Smidt, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1867
Place of death Berlin