Hermann Hauff
Hermann Hauff (born August 22, 1800 in Stuttgart ; † August 16, 1865 there ) was a German writer , editor and translator .
Life
Hermann Hauff's father, August Friederich Hauff, was government secretary in Stuttgart. He was the brother of Wilhelm Hauff and his sisters Marie (* 1806) and Sophie (* 1807). After the father's death in 1809, the mother and the children moved to live with her father Karl Friedrich Elsäßer in Tübingen on Haaggasse. In 1817, while studying medicine , he became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity ( Feuerreiter ). From 1822 to 1823 he lived in Berlin and Paris. In Tübingen he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD .
Hermann Hauff translated a. a. Alexander von Humboldt's trip to South America from the French and published a four-volume edition in 1859. In 1827 he joined the editorial office of Johann Friedrich Cottas Morgenblatt for educated estates , which he headed from 1828 until his death in 1865. From 1838 onwards, Hauff and his cousin Christoph Friedrich Karl von Kölle published the German quarterly font in Stuttgart .
He is buried in the Hoppenlauf cemetery in Stuttgart .
literature
- Sabine Peek: Hauff, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 84 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wilhelm von Heyd : Hauff, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 46 f.
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 289-290.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Hauff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Hermann Hauff in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hauff, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, editor and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1865 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |