Adelbert Heinrich von Baudissin

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Adelbert von Baudissin

Adelbert Heinrich Graf von Baudissin (born January 25, 1820 in Horsens , Jutland , † March 28, 1871 in Wiesbaden ) was a German writer.

Life

origin

Baudissin belonged to the noble family Baudissin , who originally came from Upper Lusatia and came to Schleswig-Holstein during the Thirty Years' War . He was the seventh of 13 children from the marriage of Count Christian Karl von Baudissin (1790–1868) and his wife Magdalene geb. Kunninger (1788-1864). The writer Caroline Adelheid Cornelia von Baudissin was his grandmother.

career

He attended the Cathedral School Schleswig and studied from 1837 Mining and Mineral Engineering at the Freiberg Mining Academy . There he became a member of the Corps Franconia Fribergensis newly founded by Jenenser Franken in 1838 .

After graduating, he went to Austria . After serving in the Schleswig-Holstein Army , he became dikemaster . He worked successfully as a novelist and novelist. So he wrote several writings about Schleswig-Holstein , z. B. History of the Schleswig-Holstein War (Hanover 1862), as well as historical novels such as Christian VII and his court , Philippine Welser . However, his novellist works only rise above the level of ordinary entertainment reading in places.

After the Danish victory, he went to the United States as a Forty-Eighter in 1852 , where he tried to strengthen German emigrant communities in the state of Missouri . He is mentioned again and again as the founder or co-founder of the "City of Heilbrunn", which however never really flourished and only a few ruins in Callaway County testify to its former existence . He was involved in the publication of the magazine The Courier in the town of Washington / Missouri. After his return to Germany, Baudissin published his impressions of life in America, some of which were very critical, in “Peter Tüt: Conditions in America” (Altona, 1862), a report from the perspective of the fictional immigrant Peter Tütt, and in Der Ansiedler im Missouri-Staat (Iserlohn, 1864).

In 1862 he returned to Germany. First he lived in Altona. In 1865 he became dike inspector on the west coast and in 1866 made a trip to Holland in the interests of dyke and dike management. In addition, he drafted a plan to connect the island of Rømø with the mainland in order to gain a port for the planned Kiel Canal .

During the Franco-Prussian War he spent eight months as a reporter on the theater of war. He fell ill on the way back to Wiesbaden, where he died.

family

In 1844 he married Pauline born in Gmunden . from Gersdorff . The marriage was divorced in 1845.

The countess's coffin in the crematorium's blessing hall

In 1852 he married Louisa del Strother in New York City (born July 29, 1830 in Kingston upon Hull , † May 11, 1910 in Lübeck ). On May 17, she was the first person to be cremated in the new state crematorium of the Vorwerk cemetery . One of the couple's sons was the writer Wolf Ernst Hugo Emil Graf von Baudissin (1867–1926). Siblings who were active as authors were Wolf Friedrich Ottomar von Baudissin (1812–1887), Ulrich von Baudissin (1816–1893), Asta Heiberg (1817–1904) and Thekla von Baudissin (1812–1885).

He is often confused with his cousin, who is almost the same name and of almost the same age, the country drosten Adalbert Heinrich Friedrich von Baudissin auf Borstel (1821–1875).

Works

  • Over and over. Loose leaves from a human life . Hanover, Rümpler 1862
  • History of the Schleswig-Holstein War . Hanover 1862. 751 p. Digitized
  • Christian VII and his court. Historical novel . Hanover, Rümpler (no year) 1863
  • The Burk family . Your deeds, dreams and thoughts. Recorded by AHv Baudissin, in 3 volumes. Hannover, Rümpler 1863 (vol. 1, 237 p .; vol. 2, 226 p .; vol. 3 oA)
  • Schleswig-Holstein soldiers' stories . Hanover, Rümpler 1863. 127 pp.
  • Philippine Welser or three hundred years ago . Histor. Novel. Hanover, Rümpler (no year) 1864
  • Schleswig-Holstein embraced by the sea. War and peace pictures from 1864 . Stuttgart, Hallberger 1865. 371 pp. (Reprint. Kiel, Schramm 1978. 371 pp.)
  • Look into the future of the North Frisian Islands and the Schleswig mainland coast . Schleswig, Spethmann 1867. 101 pp.
  • The handwriting found or my name is Scholtz , comedy in one act. Schleswig, Deaf and Mute Inst., 1867. 34 pp.
  • Look into the future of the North Frisian islands and the Schleswig mainland coast , 2nd edition. Schleswig, Meves 1876. 101 pp.

literature

  • Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. An encyclopedia of general knowledge , 3rd ed., Vol. 2, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1874
  • Eduard Christian Scharlau Alberti: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1866–1882: Following the author's lexicon from 1829–1866. Vol. 1, Kiel: Biernatzki 1885 p. 30
  • Horst-Ulrich Textor: “The settler in the Missouri state.” Count Adelbert von Baudissin from Franconia - miner, officer and writer . Then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research , Vol. 49 (2004), pp. 229–243

Web links

Wikisource: Adelbert Heinrich von Baudissin  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The entry with Hermann Genzken: The high school graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907): Digitized , No. 376, he was at the Katharineum at Easter 1840 Graduated from high school is probably the result of an early confusion with Adalbert Heinrich Friedrich von Baudissin
  2. ^ Erich Siegfried: The Corps Franconia in Freiberg 1838-1910 . Leipzig 1910, p. 134 f.
  3. ↑ see death of Countess Louise Countess Baudissin with contemporary newspaper reports, which also emphasize that her son did not attend the funeral due to a nervous problem .
  4. ↑ See Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Vol. 4 and Correction Vol. 5; corrected also in Alberti (lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Baudissin, Adelbert Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baudissin, Adelbert Heinrich Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Horsens
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1871
Place of death Wiesbaden