Adolf Ludwig Follen

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Adolf Ludwig Follen , actually August Adolf Ludwig Follenius, (born January 21, 1794 in Gießen , † December 26, 1855 in Bern ) was a liberal German writer and publisher .

Life

He was the brother of Karl Theodor Christian Friedrich Follen and Paul Follen . His sister Luise's son was the scientist Carl Vogt .

Follen attended high school in Giessen and studied philology , Protestant theology and law there from 1811 to 1816 at the university . In 1810 he became a member of the Corps Franconia II .

In 1814 he moved to France as a volunteer in the Wars of Liberation . After his return, under the influence of the Restoration in 1814, he became a co-founder of the German Reading Society and the Gießen Germanic Association (1815). Therefore relegated from the University of Giessen , he moved to the University of Heidelberg in 1816 , where he joined the Teutonia Heidelberg fraternity in 1815 .

In 1817 he was an editor in Elberfeld and worked out the draft constitution for a future imperial constitution . In 1818 he published the politically held songbook of the German fraternity Freye Voices of Fresh Youth . In 1819 he was arrested for "German activities" and only released in 1821 due to illness. The emigration to Switzerland kept him in prison ten years ago , to which he had been sentenced in absentia for high treason . From 1822 to 1827 Follen was a professor in Aarau . After his marriage, which brought him fortune, Follen retired to Zurich as a private citizen in 1824 . He became a member of the Aargau Grand Council and took over the Geßner printing company.

The Zurich atheism dispute in 1845 (Ruge, Follen, Heinzen, Schulz). Caricature by an unknown artist.

In the decade before the March Revolution in 1848, his Zurich residence "Am Sonnenbühl" was a contact point for those politically persecuted, among them the poets Georg Herwegh , Hoffmann von Fallersleben and Ferdinand Freiligrath . Here German emigrants, including many university professors such as Julius Fröbel and Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz , met with local liberals . Follen promoted the young poet Gottfried Keller . The latter's first poems were published in the Literarisches Comptoir Zürich und Winterthur , a publishing house founded by Froebel, which mainly published writings by German " censorship refugees". In 1843 Follen saved this publishing house from financial ruin through his participation. When Arnold Ruge and Karl Heinzen appeared in Zurich, the “ Zurich atheism controversy ” broke out, a war of springs in which Follen stood up against the left-wing Hegelians Ruge and Heinzen for belief in God and immortality . Schulz and Keller supported him, Froebel was on Ruge's side. The dispute divided the Zurich émigré colony and led to the decline of the literary department when Follen withdrew.

In 1848 Follen acquired the Liebenfels Castle (Thurgau), which offered asylum to refugees after the defeat of the revolution in Germany. He tried breeding silkworms in Liebenfels , failed and died impoverished in the house of his daughters.

As a late romantic poet he wrote romances and ballads. The epic Tristan's parents is well known .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Adolf Ludwig Follen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research. Volume 7, 1962, p. 71, ISSN  0420-8870
  2. ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießen Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, B. Germania or Germanenbund. No. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Follen, Adolf Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Follenius, August Adolf Ludwig (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1855
Place of death Bern