August Lamey (writer)

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August Lamey

August Lamey (born March 3, 1772 in Kehl ; died January 27, 1861 in Strasbourg ) was a German poet, playwright and lawyer.

Life

Lamey grew up in Strasbourg. His parents were the tobacco manufacturer and wholesale merchant Johann Martin Lamey (1736–1826) and the merchant's daughter Charlotte Catherine, nee. Lotzbeck. After attending grammar school, he studied philosophy and fine sciences at the university , where Christoph Wilhelm von Koch , Isaak Haffner and Johann Friedrich Oberlin were his teachers.

The French Revolution in 1789 was welcomed by him and enthusiastically celebrated in numerous poems, some of which were noticeably influenced in tone by the lyrics of Schiller and Klopstock , some were based on traditional church tunes and were actually sung in the Upper Rhine temples of reason of the time. These poems were published in 1791 under the title Poems of a Franconia on the Rhine River and in 1795 as Decadal Songs for the Franks on the Rhine .

On the advice of his friend Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel , Lamey went to Paris in 1794 , where he first worked for the welfare committee and then found a job as the official translator for the republican state printing company. During this time he created some dramatic works such as Marius zu Karthago , Cato's Tod and Marius Sextus Wiederkunft , pathetic pieces in the taste of the time, full of ancient Roman heroism. Napoleon's consulate and empire also met Lamey's approval and were cheerfully sung about in the appropriate poems. During these years he also wrote several plays in French.

As part of the French conquests in Germany, Lemay became customs judge in Lüneburg in 1812 , and during the wars of liberation he fled back to Paris via Hamburg . In 1816 he was judge of the peace in the Alsatian Münstertal , two years later examining magistrate in the Altkirch district . After that he was still a judge in Colmar from 1827 and in Strasbourg from 1829. In 1844 he retired and spent the following years busy with his art collections and the editing of his poems in Strasbourg.

In these later years he was closely connected to the literary development, especially in southern Germany, and was friends with the poet Justinus Kerner . He responded to contemporary poetry with late Romantic-Biedermeier tales of local history ( Chronicle of the Alsatians in songs and paintings 1845), which brought him a friendly souvenir in his Alsatian homeland. As a revolutionary poet and German Jacobin, he was largely forgotten until recently.

Works

Gravestone on the Cimetière Sainte-Hélène in Strasbourg

literature

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SURNAME Lamey, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lamey, August Wilhelm; Lamey, Wilhelm August; Lamey, Auguste (French form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, playwright and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Throat
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1861
Place of death Strasbourg