Alfred von Buttlar-Moscon

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Maria Alfred Freiherr von Buttlar-Moscon (born December 8, 1898 in Klagenfurt , † September 24, 1972 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer, poet and translator.

Life

Alfred was on the north-west of the Klagenfurt city center on Kreuzbergl situated castle Zigguln born. His 31-year-old mother, Maria Anneta Freifrau von Moscon , died one day after the unexpected birth in the seventh month of pregnancy. She was the wife of Richard Wilhelm Karl Freiherr von Buttlar zu Brandenfels called Treusch, kuk chamberlain , field marshal lieutenant and wing adjutant of Emperor Franz Joseph I.

On December 16, 1902, the father married Gabriele Freiin von Gagern (* 1872) in Linz , thereby enabling the boy to develop in the future under maternal care. Alfred graduated from a private school and received, through the “Most High Resolution” of April 29, 1909, the authorization to associate names with those of the Barons of Moscon, the family of his deceased mother.

Alfred von Buttlar-Moscon, as he now called himself, studied law and art history after graduating from the Karl-Franzens University in Graz . During his studies in Graz, he met Julius Franz Schütz and Bruno Ertler . Inspired by them, he wrote the first poems and discovered his passion for writing.

When Styria was falling apart at the end of the First World War , before he came of age, he intensified his support for his maternal legacy and from 1922 onwards he was the lord of the Pischätz estate . This broad, about 700 ha large domain with the solid castle building , continuously since 1595 in the possession of Moscon family and from 1753 as Fideikommiss set was operated at that time painstakingly by his 80-year-old grandparents and was since the separation of the Lower Styria in the Kingdom of SHS .

The handling of the inheritance procedure and the associated change of ownership was extremely complicated in the post-war era due to the unstable legal relationships in the Kingdom of SHS and dragged on for years. It was not until July 28, 1925, that Alfred von Buttlar-Moscon was the sixth Fideikommissherr to take over the rule from his grandfather, Baron Julius Franz Alfred von Moscon.

Already on July 27, 1921, Alfred von Buttlar-Moscon had married the 21-year-old daughter of a major general in the former Austro-Hungarian army in the district town of Brežice / Rann . This marriage, from which two children emerged, was however annulled on April 5, 1932 in Zagreb and the descendants were deprived of their marriage and the right to use the name Buttlar-Moscon by a ruling of December 29, 1932 by the Ljubljana Regional Court .

Awards

  • 1961 Nikolaus Lenau Prize

Works

Poetry

  • Im Kreis der Gestalten , Kulturpolitischer Verlag, Leipzig, 1936
  • Wanderer between day and dream , Verlag Volk u. Reich, Prague, 1944
  • Mariae Glockenspiel , Amandus Edition, Vienna, 1947
  • There is a knock on your door , Rohrer, Vienna, 1957

Epic

Translations

  • Antun Branko Šimić, Vladimir Vidric, Dragutin Domjanić, u. a .: Croatia's soul in a song , Europa-Verlag, Zagreb, 1943, from Croatian.
  • Dragutin Domjanić: Pagan flowers , Zagreb, 1943, from Croatian.
  • Vladimir Nazor : The Shepherd Loda , Zsolnay, Vienna, 1949, from Croatian.
  • Henri Daniel-Rops : Paulus, Conqueror for Christ , Herold Verlag, Vienna, 1951, from the French.
  • Stevan Sremac : Priests are only people , Wancura, Vienna, 1955, from Serbian.
  • Jean Amila (Jean Meckert): jury court , Wancura, Vienna, 1956, from the French.
  • André Brincourt: The green paradise , Wancura, Vienna, 1957, from the French.
  • Oton Župančič : Panorama of modern poetry , Mohn, Gütersloh, 1960, from Slovenian.
  • France Bevk , Anton Ingolič , Ciril Kosmač , Prežihov Voranc , u. a .: Yugoslavia tells , Frankfurt a. M., Fischer Bücherei, 1964, from Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian.

literature

  • Hans Pirchegger: Lower Styria in the history of their dominions and gülten, cities and markets , Munich, 1962.
  • Falk von Gagern: Mokric, The home of Friedrich von Gagern , Hamburg, Berlin, 1962.
  • Franz Hausmann, Ed .: Südsteiermark, Ein Gedenkbuch , Graz 1925.
  • Josef Andreas Janisch: Topographisches-Statistisches Lexikon von Steiermark , Vol. I./III., Graz, (1878-1885).

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personal data
SURNAME Buttlar-Moscon, Alfred von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buttlar-Moscon, Alfred Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1972
Place of death Vienna