Adolf Ellissen

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Adolf Ellissen

Georg Anton Adolf Ellissen (born March 14, 1815 in Gartow , † November 5, 1872 in Göttingen ) was a German politician and literary historian . He was very actively involved in the German Revolution of 1848/1849 and later a member and president of the Second Chamber of the Estates Assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover as well as a member of the Constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation , the Prussian House of Representatives and the Hanover Provincial Parliament .

Life

Göttingen memorial plaque for Adolf Ellissen

Ellissen grew up as the son of the physician Gerhard Ellissen in Gartow and studied medicine , history , literature and linguistics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . He conducted further studies in Berlin and Paris . His doctorate took place at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1838 and 1860 he traveled to Greece to research the literature of Central and Modern Greece on site.

Ellissen's grave of honor in the historic Bartholomäusfriedhof in Göttingen

Initially, Ellissen made a name for himself as a translator of Montesquieu ( Spirit of Laws ) and Voltaire (a selection of works). With his attempt at a polyglot of European poetry , he was groundbreaking at the time for the cultural-historical perspective and the comparative history of literature . In collaboration with Heinrich Loedel , he rendered services to Hans Holbein and his dance of death . He achieved particular merits by opening up the hitherto almost unexplored Middle and modern Greek literature.

Ellissen lived in Göttingen from 1842, where he became an employee of the university library in 1847 . His 30-year stay in Göttingen was temporarily interrupted by his participation in the March Revolution in 1848. In this context, Ellissen dealt very critically and skillfully with the prevailing political conditions. According to information in the  Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie  , he was the most popular citizen of Göttingen at the time, which is why he was elected Göttingen mayor and spokesman for the mayor for many years.

The Göttingen Citizens Association sent Ellissen to Hanover and later to Frankfurt am Main as a condominium member of the Hanoverian Assembly of Estates. In 1849 he became a member of the Göttingen Second Chamber of the Hanoverian Estates Assembly, which elected him Vice President in 1852 and President in 1854. There he was the spokesman in protest against the intentions of the Hanover government to restore the old conditions before 1848. The government tried to break his opposition by preventing any promotion of the philologist, but was unsuccessful. In 1864 he went back to the Second Chamber as a representative for Osnabrück and in 1867 to the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation , to the Prussian House of Representatives and the Hanover provincial parliament, where he belonged to the national liberal parliamentary group.

Trivia

Göttingen-Weende, Adolf-Ellissen-Weg

Ellissen was a member of the Corps Hildesia Göttingen . Because of this affiliation with a connection, he was sentenced to ten days of severe detention . He had to serve his sentence in the dungeon in the auditorium of the Georg August University .

Works (selection)

Detail from the tomb
  • Tea and asphodel flowers . Göttingen 1840 (metrical arrangements of Chinese and modern Greek poems).
  • An attempt at a polyglot of European poetry . Leipzig 1846.
  • The old knight . Leipzig 1846.
  • Michael Akominatos, Archbishop of Athens . Goettingen 1846.
  • The history of Athens after it lost its independence . Goettingen 1848.
  • Analects of Middle and Modern Greek literature . Leipzig 1855-62.
  • French heir to the throne. A retrospective view . Goettingen 1870.
  • Walking Tour of Old Athens: Sonnets and Pictures from the 19th Century . ed. v. Alexander Sideras et al. Paraskevi Sidera-Lytra. Athens 2010. ISBN 3-990-21001-7 .
  • with Heinrich Lödel: Hans Holbein's initial letters with the dance of death. Goettingen 1849.

literature

  • Annemarie Borsche:  Ellissen, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 458 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Eberhard Borsche: Adolf Ellissen (1815–1872) as a politician. In: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History (NsJbLG). Vol. 25, 1953, pp. 87 ff.
  • Hans Ellissen:  Ellissen, Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 54-57.
  • Karl Goedecke: Adolf Ellissen on his centenary birthday on March 14, 1915. In: Göttinger Blätter für Geschichte und Heimatkunde in Südhannover. Göttingen 1915
  • Georg Kaufmann: Adolf Ellissen, a pioneer of national politics from the last period of the Kingdom of Hanover. In: Prussian year books. Vol. 161, 1915, p. 470 ff.
  • Albrecht Saathoff: History of the city of Göttingen. 2 vol., Göttingen 1937–1940, vol. 2, p. 172 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wendland-Lexikon , Vol. 1, Lüchow 2000, p. 173.
  2. ↑ Specht, Fritz / Schwabe, Paul: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd edition, Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 124.
  3. ↑ Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the assistance of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 121; for the election results see Kühne, Thomas: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, electoral alliances and election candidates . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1994, pp. 547-549 ( handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties , vol. 6).
  4. ^ Haunfelder, Bernd / Pollmann, Klaus Erich (arrangement): Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, photo p. 113, short biography p. 397 (photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, vol. 2).
  5. ↑ Kösener Korpslisten 1910, pp. 76, 97.
  6. ^ Heinz Motel: Famous personalities and their connection to Göttingen. Göttingen 1993, p. 72 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Ellissen, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellissen, Georg Anton Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian, philologist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Gartow
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1872
Place of death Goettingen