Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingk

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Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingk, painting by Ernst Gottlob after Anton Graff , 1785, Gleimhaus Halberstadt
Goeckingk

Leopold Friedrich Günther Goeckingk , 1768 from Goeckingk even Goeckingk (* 13. July 1748 in Groningen , †  18th February 1828 in the United Wartenberg , Silesia ), was a German poet of the rococo , publicist , Courland Legationsrat and Prussian officer .

origin

His parents were Christian Friedrich Günther von Göckingk (1703–1773) and Johanne Schwarz (1716–179). His father was heir to Günthersdorf and Daldorf as well as war and domain council. His brother was General Friedrich Eberhard Siegmund Günther von Goeckingk .

Life

Goeckingk attended school in Halberstadt , where he got in touch with Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim . This was followed by a visit to the education department in Halle , where he was a classmate of Gottfried August Bürger , with whom he made friends. In this city he studied cameralistics and law at the university . After completing his academic training, he became a trainee lawyer at the War and Domain Chamber in Halberstadt in 1768 . From 1770 he was the office director in the small Prussian town of Ellrich and found time to develop a reputation as a writer with his book Songs of Two Lovers , in which he praised his future wife Ferdinande Vogel († 1781). He rented a country house ("New House") near Cleysingen , about half an hour's walk from Ellrich.

From 1776 to 1779 he was co-editor of the Göttingen Musenalmanach . In 1783 he was the founder of the journal from and for Germany . In 1786 he became war and domain councilor at the Chamber in Magdeburg , in 1788 Land and Tax Council in Wernigerode and Prussian local commissioner , in 1793 he became a secret finance councilor in Berlin . He was also a member of the Halberstadt Literary Society founded in 1785 .

Goeckingk lived in the "New House" near Cleysingen (today a district of Ellrich )

Goeckingk was elevated to the Prussian nobility by the king in 1789 because of the order of difficult circumstances at the princely Abbey of Quedlinburg . Since then he has written himself to Goeckingk in Daldorf and Günthersdorf . When the General Directorate in Berlin was dissolved after the Peace of Tilsit (1807), he was dismissed in 1808 and turned back to poetry. He lived in Wernigerode for many years. In 1814 he withdrew from his official duties and went into retirement. He initially stayed in Berlin, then with his daughter in Wartenberg, Silesia, where he died on February 18, 1828.

Goeckingk belongs to the Halberstadt circle of poets and is one of its most outstanding representatives. He was also a member of the Berlin Wednesday Society . The writer Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard in Gotha was one of his acquaintances .

He was a member of the Illuminati Order in Göttingen .

family

He married Sophie Marie Filippine Vopel (* 1745 - 18 December 1781) in Rohra on August 2, 1775 . The couple had a son:

  • Friedrich Ernst August Günther (born June 19, 1776 - † September 25, 1826), retired Rittmeister. D. ⚭ Maria Anna Thesesia Oistendorff († March 25, 1850)

After the death of his first wife, he married Amalie Friederike Christiane Vopel (1756–1814) on August 30, 1782 . The couple had several children.

He was the brother-in-law of the lawyer and poet Johann Gottlob Benjamin Pfeil (1732-1800).

Newer reception

Karl Kraus has included poems by Goeckingk, which he discovered in Friedrich Matthisson's Lyric Anthology , in the program of his lectures since 1921 . Five poems by Goeckingk were included in the resulting anthology "Lyrik der Deutschen". Karl Kraus was particularly impressed by the poem When the first snow fell, which he reprinted in the torch and praised as "a perfect masterpiece" of "unique sound".

Works (selection)

  • Epistles . Halberstadt 1772; 2nd edition Leipzig 1778
  • Poems . Leipzig 1779–82, 3 vol .; 3rd edition, Frankfurt am Main 1821, 4 vol.
  • Songs of two lovers , Leipzig 1777; 3rd edition Leipzig 1819
  • Charades and logogryphs , Frankfurt am Main 1817

Editing

  • Journal von und für Deutschland , edited by Sigmund von Bibra and Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingk. Frankfurt am Main 1784 (continued by Bibra alone until 1792).
  • Trip of Herr von Bretschneider to London and Paris, together with excerpts from his letters to Herr Friedrich Nicolai. Berlin 1817.
  • Friedrich Nicolai's life and literary estate. Berlin 1820.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Schüttler: The members of the Illuminati Order 1776–1787 / 93, Deutsche Hochschuledition, Volume 18, ars una Verlag 1991.
  2. ↑ Christian Wagenknecht (Ed.): Lyrik der Deutschen for his lectures selected by Karl Kraus, Munich 1990, pages 70-77.
  3. ↑ Quoted in the afterword by Christian Wagenknecht, Lyrik der Deutschen, 1990, p. 171.
personal data
SURNAME Goeckingk, Leopold Friedrich Günther von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goeckingk, Leopold Friedrich Günther; Goeckingk to Daldorf and Günthersdorf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet of the rococo and Prussian official
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Groeningen
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1828
Place of death Groß Wartenberg , Silesia