August Adolph von Haugwitz

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August Adolph von Haugwitz (born May 14, 1647 at Gut Uebigau in Upper Lusatia , † September 27, 1706 at Neschwitz Castle near Bautzen ) was a German poet and dramatist of the Baroque period .

Life

Haugwitz came from the Lausitz land nobility. On October 28, 1665, he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg to study law , especially constitutional law. His earliest, long unprinted dramas go back to his student days. In his first drama Soliman he proves to be the epigone of Andreas Gryphius . In 1669 he went on an educational trip to Paris , where his courtly comedy Flora was written. Hoffmannswaldau was his adored role model in poetry .

Works (selection)

  • Prodromus Lusaticus , Bautzen 1681 - History of Lausitz
  • Guilty innocence or Maria Stuarda , 1683 (reprint: Bern 1974)
  • Prodromus poeticus, or Poetischer Vorrab , Dresden 1684 (reprint: Tübingen 1984) - collective edition of the dramas and the lyric

literature

  • Pierre Béhar: Epilogue to: August Adolph von Haugwitz Prodomus Poeticus, or: Poetischer Vortrab 1684 , Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1984, pp. 1–194.
  • Thomas Diecks: "Guilty innocence": Schiller's Maria Stuart against the background of baroque dramatizations of the subject. In: Achim Aurnhammer, Klaus Manger, Friedrich Strack (eds.): Schiller and the courtly world. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1990, pp. 233-46. ISBN 3-484-10649-2
  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : August Adolph von Haugwitz (1647-1706) . In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints . Volume 3. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, pp. 2032–2035, ISBN 3-7772-9105-6 (list of works and literature)
  • Rüdiger Frommholz:  Haugwitz, August Adolph von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 93 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gernot Uwe Gabel: Haugwitz '"Maria Stuarda". A word index. Hamburg 1973
  • Robert R. Heitner: August Adolf [!] Von Haugwitz: Guilty innocence or Maria Stuarda. Faks. Dr. after the edition of 1683. [Foreword.] Bern and Frankfurt a. M. 1974.
  • Hermann Palm:  Haugwitz, Adolph von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 56 f.
  • Bernhard Huebner: The Lusatian poet Aug. Ad. from Haugwitz. A contribution to the literary history of the XVII. Century. Trarbach 1885. (Scientific supplement to the program of the Königl. Progymnasium in Trarbach for the school year 1884/1885).
  • Bernhard Huebner: The small poems and dramas of the Prodromus Poeticus by Aug. Ad. from Haugwitz. A contribution to the history of the art drama in the XVII. Century. Neuwied 1893. (Royal high school with Realprogymnasium in Neuwied. Scientific supplement to the 16th annual report, Easter 1893).
  • Otto Neumann: Studies on the life and work of the Lausitz poet August Adolph von Haugwitz (1647-1706). Diss. Greifswald 1930. Bad Oeynhausen 1937.
  • Elida Maria Szarota: History, Politics and Society in the 17th Century. Bern 1976

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personal data
SURNAME Haugwitz, August Adolph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet and dramatist of the baroque period
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH Uebigau Castle, Upper Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1706
Place of death Neschwitz Castle near Bautzen