Adolf Laun

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Konrad Wilhelm Adolf Laun (born January 29, 1808 in Bremen ; † September 14, 1881 in Oldenburg ) was a German Romance studies scholar , translator , high school teacher and literary historian .

Life

The son of the Bremen businessman FG Laun obtained his university entrance qualification at the Bremen School of Academics . Adolf Laun then studied philosophy and philology - first in Göttingen with Karl Otfried Müller and then for another two years with Hegel , Friedrich Schleiermacher , August Boeckh and Carl Ritter in Berlin . In 1831 Adolf Laun received his doctorate in Göttingen and received a position as an assistant teacher at the Bremen grammar school.

From 1835 Adolf Laun worked in Bordeaux as a professor of German literature at the Collége Royal and at the same time as a private teacher and occasionally as a journalist for German and French newspapers. After returning to Germany towards the end of 1847, Adolf Laun worked from 1848 as a teacher at the Higher Citizens' School in Mannheim . In 1851 he joined the exchange with Karl August Mayer to Oldenburg and was German and French teacher at the brigade - Military School Oldenburg and at the old school . From his teaching activities between 1841 and 1856 several exercises for translating from German into French emerged.

In addition to his work as a teacher, Laun was also active in various social and literary roles in Oldenburg. In 1851 he joined the literary and sociable association and held regular lectures there since 1852, mainly on French and English literature. He was appointed president of the association several times and was made an honorary member in 1879. At the same time he was also a member of the more socially exclusive Literary Society of 1779.

Since the late 1860s, Laun published some works that made him better known. So 1869 by himself as biographical and literary history sketches designated poet Characters for German, French and English literature. also in 1870 the biography of Washington Irving and in 1876 that of Oliver Goldsmith . In both works he cleverly combined biographical elements with political, cultural and literary-historical elements, but only used sources available in Germany and those that he was able to make available through correspondence. However, his writings contributed significantly to the popularization of Irving and Goldsmith in Germany. Laun was also known through his translations by Louis Racine (1874) and Lafontaine (1877–1878) from French. In retirement, Laun mainly worked on Molière translations into German, which he published in 14 volumes with commentaries from 1873 to 1885. Almost blinded by an eye disease in 1879, he had to rely on the help of his second wife, born Meier, to continue working.

In his first marriage he had three daughters with D. Schünemann.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Higher Citizens' School Mannheim
  2. ^ Jörg Michael Henneberg: Mayer, Karl August. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 442-443 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Laun, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laun, Konrad Wilhelm Adolf; Laun, Adolph; Laun, Konrad W .; Laun, Conrad Wilhelm Adolf; Laun, Conrad W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance philologist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1881
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)