August Egbert von Derschau

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August Egbert von Derschau (born August 25, 1845 in Lüneburg , † June 12, 1883 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer and novelist . He published his literary works under the pseudonym Egbert Carlssen .

Life

August Egbert came from the Prussian - Kurland noble family von Derschau and was born in Lüneburg as the son of the Hanover government councilor Carl Ernst Wilhelm von Derschau (1803-1856). After his father's death, he attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden and the Georgianum grammar school in Lingen . From 1864 to 1868 he studied law at the University of Göttingen . Already at this time he dealt with historical topics.

After the state examination in 1868, he entered the Prussian judicial service in 1869 and worked as a trainee lawyer at the district courts of Verden and Goslar as well as at the higher courts in Göttingen and Lüneburg . In 1871 he married Julie Zachariä , a daughter of the Göttingen constitutional law teacher and politician Heinrich Albert Zachariä (1806-1875). After a short period as a lawyer, he resigned from civil service in 1872 for health reasons. In the period that followed, he dealt exclusively with historical studies and writing.

Derschau lived first in Ulm and from 1874 in Cannstatt near Stuttgart before he moved to Dresden in 1882, where he died the following year.

His best-known literary work was the historical novel Ein Stadtjunker in Braunschweig (Halle 1882), which was celebrated at the end of the 19th century as a "cabinet piece of romantic poetry" and which had several subsequent editions.

Works

  • Sir John Fenwick (1874), historical narrative
  • The daughter of Wiedenau (1879), Roman
  • From the apprenticeship years of a nerd (1881), novel
  • A city squire in Braunschweig (1882), historical novel, ( digitized in the Gutenberg-DE project )
  • Degen and Palette (1883), novel
  • The noble marten (posthumously 1884), novel
  • The Doctor from Batavia (posthumously 1884), short story
  • Stories by Egbert Carlssen (posthumously 1884), three volumes

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Weller : Lexicon pseudonymorum: Dictionary of pseudonyms of all times and peoples or directory of those authors who used false names . Reprint of the 2nd edition. Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1963, p. 98
  2. ↑ a b c Yearbook of the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden . Volume 8. Emden 1888, pp. 88-90
  3. ^ A b Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 2. 6th edition. Leipzig 1913, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Derschau, August Egbert from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carlssen, Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1883
Place of death Dresden