August Fresenius (writer)

August Fresenius (born April 25, 1789 in Friedberg , Hessen ; died December 8, 1813 in Homburg vor der Höhe ) was a German playwright and poet.

Life

Fresenius was the son of the Hessian court counselor Johann Christian Ludwig Fresenius (1749-1811) and of Antoinette Elisabeth, née Runkel. He first had a private tutor and then attended the Augustinian School in Friedberg. From 1811 he studied theology at the University of Gießen , where he became friends with Friedrich Ludwig Weidig , who later co-authored the Hessischer Landbote . In the same year 1811 he moved to the University of Heidelberg , where his interests shifted to ancient languages and literature. He had already taught as a private tutor during his studies, and in July 1813 he became the school principal in Homburg vor der Höhe. In December 1813 he died there of a "nerve fever".

In 1812 Fresenius had published a volume of poems after the first poems had already appeared in the Heidelberg paperback for 1812 . The volume of poetry also contained some scenes from a tragedy by Thomas Aniello . According to Scriba, "according to the unanimous opinion of his closest friends", Fresenius is said to have written the whole piece in Heidelberg in the summer of 1811 within seven weeks. In the poems, however, the printed parts are expressly referred to as scenes from a tragedy that has yet to be completed .

After his death, 'teacher was at the instigation of Fresenius Heinrich Voss by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué of Thomas Aniello first volume survivors, writings published and at the expense of Fresenius' printed mother and siblings. No other volumes of the writings were published. In 1820 Thomas Aniello appeared as a single publication in the second edition.

The Thomas Aniello is partly in prose, partly in fünfhebigen iambs authored by frequent scene changes and rough crowd scenes on pieces of the Sturm und Drang reminiscent freedom drama in which Ludwig Borne "a large, although still wild untamed power" and even "Shakespeare Ghost" remarked . The main character is Masaniello , the leader of the popular uprising in Naples in 1647. The material has already been worked on several times, first in 1683 in the tragedy Masaniello by Christian Weise , Fresenius apparently used the historical novel Masaniell by August Gottlieb Meißner as material, but Weidig can also provide suggestions have come. Thomas Aniello has repeatedly been attributed to Georg Büchner as the “revolutionary piece by a Hessian poet who died young and who was friends with Weidig” .

Works

literature

Robert Niederhoff: August Fresenius. A Friedberg poet. In: Friedberger Geschichtsblätter Vol. 11 (1934), pp. 179–188.
Edith S. Gilmore: The Masaniello Theme in German Literature. Dissertation Yale 1950, p. 58 ff.
Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 2nd Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1900, vol. 7, p. 257 .
Arno Schmidt : Fouqué and some of his contemporaries. Darmstadt 1958, p. 407 f.
Heinrich Eduard Scriba : Biographical-literary lexicon of the writers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Vol. 2. Darmstadt 1843, sv Fresenius, August :
E. Theodor Voss: Arcadia in Büchner's ›Leonce and Lena‹. In: Georg Büchner. ›Leonce and Lena‹. Critical study edition. Edited by Burghard Dedner. Frankfurt am Main 1987, p. 335 f.
E. Theodor Voss: Fresenius, August. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, vol. 3, p. 573.

Web links

August Fresenius in the German Digital Library
Literary culture in Giessen: the 19th century by Rolf Haaser
Fresenius, August. Hessian biography. (As of December 8, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

↑ The term “nerve fever” used to be used for typhus .
↑ Heidelberg paperback for the year 1812 . Edited by Alois Wilhelm Schreiber. Mannheim 1812, ZDB -ID 515978-7 .
^ Fresenius: Poems. Darmstadt 1812, pp. 171-187.
↑ Quoted in: Killy Literature Lexicon. 2nd edition Berlin 2008, vol. 3, p. 573.
↑ August Gottlieb Meißner: Masaniell . Leipzig 1784, digitized .

personal data
SURNAME	Fresenius, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German playwright and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	April 25, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH	Friedberg (Hesse)
DATE OF DEATH	December 8, 1813
Place of death	Homburg vor der Höhe

[1] The term “nerve fever” used to be used for typhus .

[2] Heidelberg paperback for the year 1812 . Edited by Alois Wilhelm Schreiber. Mannheim 1812, ZDB -ID 515978-7 .

[3] Fresenius: Poems. Darmstadt 1812, pp. 171-187.

[4] Quoted in: Killy Literature Lexicon. 2nd edition Berlin 2008, vol. 3, p. 573.

[5] August Gottlieb Meißner: Masaniell . Leipzig 1784, digitized .