Aloys Schreiber

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Aloys Schreiber
Title page of the travel guide Voyageurs sur Le Rhin 1807

Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber (born October 12, 1761 in Bühl (Baden) , † October 21, 1841 in Oos (Baden-Baden) ) was a teacher and professor of aesthetics , court historian , writer and travel book author .

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Schreiber was born on October 12, 1761 in Bühl (baptized on the same day in the parish of Kappelwindeck). His father Ignaz Schreiber was a merchant and chairmen of the local Kramerzunfthaus . His mother was Maria Katharina Seuther. Schreiber was the eldest son of nine children. In his childhood, Schreiber attended high school in Baden-Baden . From 1781 studied recorder at the University of Freiburg at the request of his parents theology . In 1784 he took up a teaching position as a professor of aesthetics at his former grammar school, but in 1788 he gave up and became court master and private tutor in the family of Count von Westphalen-Fürstenberg in Mainz , who was Kurmainz Minister of State at the time. In 1790 he traveled with the young count to Strasbourg and the Baltic Sea . In the summer of 1791 Aloys Schreiber made extensive trips along the Rhine. He processed these experiences in numerous travel reports. In 1801 Schreiber took over a teaching position as a professor of classical literature at the Lyceum in Baden-Baden. On January 22, 1804, he wrote to the Elector Karl Friedrich von Baden asking for the chair for aesthetics at the University of Heidelberg , which he held until 1813. In 1807 Schreiber received his doctorate in philosophy . At this time he became friends with Heinrich Voss, the son of Johann Heinrich Voss . In 1809 he was appointed dean of the philosophy faculty in Heidelberg. In 1813, Schreiber became court historian in Karlsruhe, thereby quitting his position in Heidelberg. There he cultivated close friendships with Friedrich Weinbrenner and Johann Peter Hebel . Schreiber retired on September 16, 1825, after which he returned to Oos in 1826, where he died on October 21, 1841.

family

On February 3, 1787, the marriage between Schreiber and Maria Anna Joubert (1770-1852) took place in Oberöwisheim . The first child, Maria Anna Elisabeth, was born there on February 8, 1788. Aloys Schreiber and his wife had a total of six sons (including the mathematician Guido Schreiber ) and one daughter. Three of his children died in infancy.

Works

Aloys Schreiber was active in literature throughout his life. He was active as a writer, collected songs and published magazines. He tried a wide variety of genres. As a poet and playwright, Schreiber could not convince, although he is considered gifted and talented, if not a genius. Schreiber was able to translate his broad knowledge into non-fiction books. He was able to present the topics clearly. The travelogues along the Rhine and its surroundings were particularly successful. In 1806 the book Picturesque Views of the Rhine from Mainz to Düsseldorf was published , and a year later the French translation Voyage pittoresque sur le Rhin depuis Mayence jusqu'à Düsseldorf followed . Travelers enjoyed reading these books. Therefore, these works are considered a forerunner of Karl Baedeker's travel guides with cultural and historical value. Other important works related to the history of Germany and especially Baden. He also collected stories and sagas and published them.

Magazines

  • Musarion, quarterly for women (1789, only one quarter)
  • Diary of the Mainzer Schaubühne (since 1788)
  • Das rothe Blatt , (1793, only 2 issues)
  • Rastatt congress calendar with a tarpaulin from the city of Rastadt and a view of the castle (1798)
  • Baden weekly for instruction and entertainment for all classes (1806–1808)
  • Heidelberg Paperback , (since 1808)
  • Cornelia , paperback for German women ( taken over by Amalie Schoppe from 1816 from 1840 until 1873)
  • Editor of the Rhenish family friend (1816)

stage

Theater and drama

  • The Ghost Comedy in Two Acts (1789)
  • The Bride in the Schleyer Comedy in One Act (1789)
  • Dramaturgical sheets , 6 volumes
  • Dramatic paintings (1791)
  • Operetta The Harp (1793)
  • Cantata bey of the Todesfeyer Sr. Hochf. Your Highness Carl Ludwig , Hereditary Prince of Baden (1802)
  • December 23rd : World premiere of the opera Jephthas Vowe in 3 acts with ballet by Giacomo Meyerbeer , libretto by Schreiber, at the Hoftheater in Munich with moderate applause. (1812)
  • Performance of the one-act play Des Kriegers Heimkehr (July 3, 1814)
  • Festival The Abolition of Serfdom (1828)

Non-fiction

philosophy

  • Immortality, a sketch (1788)
  • The hermit's night watch at Athos (1790)
  • Textbook of Aesthetics (1809) GoogleBook

history

  • Biography of Karl Friedrichs, Grand Duke of Baden (1811)
  • Patriotic Leaves , Miscelles from the Fields of History and Culture (1812)
  • History of Baden, textbook for secondary schools (1817)
  • The Services of the House of Baden to the Austrian Imperial Family (1819)

Travel and nature descriptions

  • Remarks on a trip from Strasbourg to the Baltic Sea (2 parts, anonymous) (1793/94)
  • Wandering through some areas of Germany (1795)
  • Picturesque views of the Rhine from Mainz to Düsseldorf , Wilmans: Frankfurt am Mayn 1806
  • Voyage pittoresque sur le Rhin depuis Mayence jusqu'à Dusseldorf . Wilmans, Frankfurt 1807 ( digitized edition )
  • Bathing in the Grand Duchy with its medicinal springs and surroundings newly described (1811)
  • Heidelberg and its surroundings, described historically and topographically (1811)
  • Instructions to travel the Rhine and the Moselle and the baths of the Taunus (1812)
  • Aachen , Spaa and Burtscheid : Handbook for foreigners, locals and spa guests (1824)
  • Handbook for travelers on the Rhine, from Schafhausen to Holland, in the most beautiful surrounding areas and the healing springs there
  • Complete guide for travelers in Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, through Würtemberg and Bavaria

Others

  • German sample collection for schools for the formation and refinement of taste (1796)

Poetry and prose

Novel, drama, novella

  • Small attachments (1786)
  • Scenes from Faust's Life (1792)
  • Whims, stories and paintings (1793)
  • Wollmar (1794)
  • The conspiracy against Venice (1794)
  • My cousin's journey to his room (1797)
  • Adelheid of Messina (1802)
  • Painting of childhood and domestic happiness (1803)
  • Oak leaves (1814)
  • Satire Comoedia divina (1807)

Poems

collection

  • The Forest Brother in Eichthale (1794)
  • Whims and dreams of a man who is neither cosmopolitan nor philistine (1795)
  • Romantic stories Bdch. 1-2 (1795)
  • Hours of my loneliness. Enlightenment and obscurants (1799)
  • Legends from the areas of the Rhine and the Black Forest (1819); Google Book , 1929 2nd edition
  • Legends from the regions of the Rhine and the Black Forest and the Vosges (1839); Google Book , 1848

Other works

  • Prayer book of the King of Prussia
  • Considerations for the German citizen, prompted by the current circumstances (1792)
  • Scenes from the last days of Mary Antoinetten of France (1794)
  • The Constitution of Rome at the time of the Republic and a parallel between the Old Roman and New Franconian Republic (1794)
  • In the Leipzig monthly for women 1794: About the talkativeness of women (from English, Volume 5, S112ff); Lebenswerth (poem, 5, S128f); The girl in spring (poem, 5, pp. 130f); The pity (after Mistress Barbauld 6, p. 205ff); Lament of a nun (poem, 6, p. 209); Windegg Castle (poem, 6, S210ff); Teaching girls (poem, 6, Sf); A story of the past (7, p. 3ff); Writing on a trip to Ermenonville (9, pp. 203ff); To nature (poem 10, S70ff); Gratitude out of motherly love (poem 10, p. 72ff)
  • The Pilgrim, a side piece to the Waldbruder in Eichthale (1796)
  • Instructions to travel the Rhine from Schaffhausen to Holland, the Moselle from Coblenz to Trier, the baths on the Taunus, the Murgthal, Neckarthal and the Odenwald (1812, 1818 translated into English)
  • Panning for gold near Karlsruhe . - Contemporary illustration of gold panning (1820)
  • Costumes, folk festivals and characteristic activities in the Grand Duchy of Baden in XII pictorial representations and accompanied by historical-topographical notes. (1820) (Issue 1. Herder-Verlag, Freiburg); Reprinted 1978 ISBN 3451183498
  • Ladies Library (1827) GoogleBook
  • Painting of childhood and domestic happiness / by Aloys [Wilhelm] Schreiber. - Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1803. Digitized edition of the University and State Library of Düsseldorf

literature

  • Otto Biehler: “Aloys Schreiber. 1761-1841. His life and works ” ; Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine, ZGORh 94, 1942, p. 598
  • Claudia Rink: " Neither cosmopolitan nor philistine , the Baden poet and Heidelberg professor of aesthetics Aloys Schreiber (1761-1841)", Verlag Regionalkultur, ISBN 978-3897354630
  • Helmut Bender: "On Baden Literature" 1989, pp. 100-109 Verlag Friederich Resin, Weil ISBN 978-3923066223
  • Friedrich von Weech:  Schreiber, Alois Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 471.

Web links

Wikisource: Alois Wilhelm Schreiber  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Literarisches Wochenblatt 1818 pp. 95f
  2. ↑ a b Isis 1825 p. 19
  3. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1791 pp. 324-325
  4. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1790 pp. 771–772
  5. ^ Hesselmann Peter: Purified Theater 1998 p. 61ff
  6. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1798 pp. 653–654
  7. ^ Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung 1809 Sp. 515-517
  8. ↑ Isis 1825 pp. 1288f
  9. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1790 p. 424
  10. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1790 p. 136
  11. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1793 pp. 245–246
  12. ^ General concise dictionary of the philosophical sciences , together with their literature and history, p. 219, 1818 p. 95f
  13. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1790 pp. 371–373
  14. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1809 pp. 57–60
  15. ↑ Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung 1811, Sp. 69–72
  16. ↑ a b 200 Years of Heidelberg Romanticism 2008 p. 413
  17. ↑ Isis 1819 Col. 341-343
  18. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1794 pp. 649–654
  19. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1796 pp. 474–475
  20. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1797 pp. 279–280
  21. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1813 p. 145
  22. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1813 pp. 753–758
  23. ↑ GoogleBook
  24. ^ Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf : Repertory of the entire German literature , 1836, Volume 9, p. 457
  25. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1797 pp. 711–712
  26. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1786 p. 440
  27. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1792 pp. 351–352
  28. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1793 pp. 401–403
  29. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1795 pp. 241–245
  30. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1795 p. 119
  31. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1797 p. 680
  32. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1797 pp. 207–208
  33. ↑ Jenaische Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1803, column 304
  34. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1814 p. 721
  35. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1796 pp. 47–48
  36. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1811, pp. 222–224
  37. ↑ Jenaische Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1814 Sp. 133-136
  38. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1815 pp. 461–464
  39. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1794 pp. 287–288
  40. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1796 pp. 598–600
  41. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1796 pp. 615–616
  42. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung 1799 pp. 549-550
personal data
SURNAME Schreiber, Aloys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schreiber, Aloys Wilhelm; Sirius, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Teacher and professor of aesthetics, court historian, writer and travel book author
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Bühl (Baden)
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1841
Place of death Oos (Baden-Baden)