Adolf Seubert (officer)

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Colonel Adolf von Seubert, commander 1870–1872

Adolf Friedrich Seubert , von Seubert since 1866 , (born June 9, 1819 in Stuttgart , † February 4, 1880 in Cannstatt ) was a Württemberg officer , writer and translator .

Life

Adolf Seubert was the son of an auditor in the district government in Ludwigsburg. From 1835 he attended the Ludwigsburg War School . He began his military career as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Infantry Regiment . In 1848 he was involved in the suppression of the uprisings in Baden , was from 1864 to 1867 as captain adjutant to the Minister of War in the Kingdom of Württemberg , advisor in the War Ministry and in the war of 1866 on the side of the German Confederation, head of the internal service of a field division. In the same year Seubert was raised to the personal nobility by being awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown . He was appointed Commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment on July 20, 1870, with promotion to Colonel . In the war against France in 1870/71 he led a detachment that had to cover the Black Forest and bind a French corps ( deception with the beetle wood ). Seubert was later used in the siege of Paris and resigned from military service in 1873. From then on he devoted himself exclusively to writing. He worked on the lexicon The Artists of All Times and Nations mentioned below . In particular, he produced numerous translations for Reclam's universal library .

Adolf von Seubert found his final resting place in the Cannstatter Uff churchyard . Seubertstrasse in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt is named after him.

Publications (selection)

  • Two tragedies: pride and love. An actress. Stuttgart 1845.
  • The Kingdom of Würtemberg. A statistical sketch . Reprinted separately from O. Huebner's yearbook for economics and statistics. III. Jahrgg Huebner, Leipzig 1855.
  • The stars of Swabia. A festival for young and old in Swabia. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1856 ( digitized version ).
  • The tactics in examples with special consideration of the local battles and based on ›Berneck's elements of tactics‹. Karl Aue, Stuttgart 1857 ( digitized ).
  • The elementary tactics of infantry in their application. Karl Aue, Stuttgart 1860.
  • The artists of all times and peoples: or the lives and works of the most famous builders, sculptors, painters, copper engravers, form cutters, lithographers etc. from the earliest art epochs to the present day. Edited from the best sources . Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart
    • Volume 3: M – Z , started by Friedrich Müller, continued by Karl Klunzinger and Adolf Seubert. 1864 ( digitized ).
    • Volume 4 supplements since 1857 , edited by Adolf Seubert. 1870 ( digitized ).
      • General artist lexicon, or life and works of the most famous visual artists . 2nd edition, revised and supplemented by Adolf Seubert, 3 volumes, Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1878–1879, again Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1882.
  • [v. S.]: Principles of the art of war. Complete manual of present-day warfare in its full extent in the teachings of the greatest masters such as v. Clausewitz ... represented and parallelized . Schäfer, Leipzig Volume 1, 1871; Volume 2, 1874; Volume 3, 1876
  • The Württemberger in the Black Forest in August 1870. In: Military weekly . 64, 1879, No. 64, Col. 1113-1120; No. 65, col. 1129-1136; No. 66, col. 1147-1155; No. 67, Col. 1159-1168 ( digitized version ).
  • The tactics of the present in examples from the campaigns of the last sixteen years and based on the tactics of Meckel (Perizonius, 6th edition) . Mittler, Berlin 1875.
  • [-rt]: Netherlands . In: Bernhard von Poten (Ed.): Concise dictionary of the entire military sciences . Volume 7. Leipzig 1879, pp. 136–151 ( digitized version ).
  • Eduard Lang , Adolf Seubert: The first Baden light battery from Bodman in the campaign of 1870/1871 together with corrections and additions. Reiff, Karlsruhe 1912.

Translations

  • 1846 Carl Jonas Love Almqvist : The Queen's Jewelery. Novel in twelve books. (Drottningens juvelsmycke, 1834). Franckh, Stuttgart.
  • 1846 William Whewell : Traces of the Godhead in the development and formation history of creation. (after 'Indications of the Creator' and 'Vestiges of the natural History of Creation'). Adolph Becher's publishing house, Stuttgart.
  • 1860 Alphonse de Lamartine : Graziella. Narrative. 1852, Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1864 Carl Beck: The warfare of the Danes in Jutland depicted at General Rye's retreat in 1849. Eduard Zernin, Darmstadt and Leipzig
  • 1870 Ugo Foscolo : The last letters of Jacopo Ortis. (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, 1802), Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1872 Silvio Pellico : Francesca of Rimini. Tragedy in five acts. (Francesca da Rimini, 1815), Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1873 Alexander Pushkin : The Prisoner in the Caucasus. Digitized , Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1873 Alexander Pushkin: Onegin . Novel in verse. (Reclam's Universal Library 427-428), Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1874 Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch : The lovers of Teruel. Drama in five acts. (Los amantes de Teruel, 1836), Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1874 Lord George Gordon Byron's Complete Works, Vol. 1–3. (Biographical introduction: Rudolf von Gottschall ), Leipzig, Reclam.
    • 1922 Lord Byron: The Prisoner of Chillon. (The Prisoner of Chillon, 1816), Mazeppa. (1819), Reclam (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 557), Leipzig.
  • 1874 Antonio Gil de Zárate: Guzman of Loyalty. Drama in four acts. (Guzmán el Bueno, 1842), Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1875 Charles Nodier's childhood memories. ( Reclams Universal Library 675/676). Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1876 Chinese poems based on the English version by George Carter Stent (1833–1884). Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1876 Lope de Vega : Her lover's slave. Comedy. (La esclava de su galán), Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1876 Voltaire : The Story of Charles XII , King of Sweden. online in the Gutenberg-DE project (Histoire de Charles XII, based on the 1829 edition by Beuchot), Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1877 Vittorio Alfieri : Philip II. Tragedy in five acts. Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1879 Francis Beaumont , John Fletcher : Philasters or Love Bleeds. Drama in five acts. (Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding, tragicomedy, 1609). Reclam, Leipzig
  • 1880 George Sand : Indiana (Roman 1832), Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1881 Laurence Sterne : Life and Views of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman . (Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman 1759–1767), Reclam (Reclam's Universal Library 1441–1445), Leipzig.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1869. P. 51.
personal data
SURNAME Seubert, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seubert, Adolf Friedrich; Seubert, Adolf Friedrich von; Seubert, Friedrich Adolph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wuerttemberg officer, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1880
Place of death Cannstatt