Adolf Friedrich von Schack

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Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack
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Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack
Count's coat of arms for Adolf Friedrich from 1876
Memorial plaque on the house where Schacks was born near the shelf church in Schwerin
Schacks burial place: the family crypt in Stralendorf

Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack (born August 2, 1815 in Schwerin , † April 14, 1894 in Rome ) was a German poet , art and literary historian .

Life

Adolf Friedrich von Schack came from the Lower Saxon noble family Schack . He was the son of the lawyer and later Mecklenburg Bundestag envoy Adam Reimar Christoph von Schack (1780-1852) and his wife Wilhelmine, born. Kossel (1792–1869), born in the Schelfstadt part of Schwerin . The house where he was born has been preserved to this day. Between 1834 and 1838 he studied law in Bonn , Heidelberg and Berlin . He then entered the Prussian civil service and was appointed to the Berlin Court of Appeal . However, the work there tired him and he resigned.

After von Schack had toured Italy , Egypt and Spain , he returned to Germany. He went to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . There he was posted to the civil service and in 1849 as a representative to Berlin. He held this diplomatic post until 1852 and then returned to his estate in Zülow in Mecklenburg . In 1845 he had a new manor house built in the late classicist style in the town of Zülow, which is next to Stralendorf.

He then went to Spain to study the history of the Moors .

In 1855 he moved to Munich . There he was made an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences in 1856 . He also built up a collection of valuable 19th century paintings. The Schack Collection (“Schack Gallery”) is still located in Munich , although he bequeathed it to Kaiser Wilhelm II .

Above all, his work Poetry and Art of the Arabs in Spain and Sicily is considered an important contribution to the history of art and literature. In 1886 a large part of his work was published in Gesammelte Werken (six volumes). A year later, von Schack published his autobiography under the title Half a Century, Memories and Records . Posthumously Posthumous Seals were published in 1896 .

Schack found his final resting place in the family crypt in the mausoleum built in 1853 in the neo-Gothic style in the churchyard in Stralendorf near Schwerin. While the mausoleum was still threatened by demolition in 1987 as a cultural monument, the first security and renovation work began in 1991, together with the parish, the mayor and the monument preservation department.

Honors

Works (selection)

Poems and dramas

  • Poems . Hertz, Berlin 1866. ( digitized version )
  • Through all weather . Novel in verse. Hertz, Berlin 1870. ( digitized version )
  • The Pisans . Hertz, Berlin 1872. ( digitized version )
  • The first word of love . (1867)
  • The emperor's messenger . Wild, Munich 1871. ( digitized version )
  • Cancan . Comedy in five acts. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1873. ( digitized version )
  • Equal . Novel in verse. Cotta, Stuttgart 1876. ( digitized version )
  • Heliodor . Dramatic poem. Cotta, Stuttgart 1878. ( digitized version )
  • Lotus Leaves New Poems. Cotta, Stuttgart 1883.
  • Memnon. A myth . Cotta, Stuttgart 1885. ( digitized version )
  • Walpurga and Der Johanniter . Two tragedies. Cotta, Stuttgart 1887.
  • Collected Works (6 volumes, 1883)
  • Sealed seals . Edited by G. Winkler. Cotta, Stuttgart 1896. ( digitized version )

History of art and literature

Translations

  • Spanish theater (1845)
  • Heroic sagas of Firdusi (1851; digitized version of the 2nd, increased edition 1865)
  • Voices from the Ganges (1857)

Autobiographical

  • Half a century. Memories and Records (3 volumes, 1888)
  • My painting collection (1894)

literature

Web links

Commons : Adolf Friedrich von Schack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Adolf Friedrich von Schack  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The statement often found in the literature that he was born in Brüsewitz (near Schwerin ) is incorrect
  2. ↑ In the 1819 census, Adolph von Schack (No. 1858) counted together with two sisters as members of the court community in Schwerin's parents' house.
  3. ↑ Horst Ende : Schacksche's mausoleum in Stralendorf . MM regional supplement of the SVZ, No. 8, 1992 p. 16.
predecessor Office successor
Wilhelm von Hessenstein Mecklenburg envoy in Berlin
1851-1852 		Bernhard Vollrath von Bülow
personal data
SURNAME Schack, Adolf Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schack, Adolf Friedrich Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, art and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1894
Place of death Rome