August Leverkühn

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August Otto Author Leverkühn , also Leverkuehn , (born October 25, 1861 in Hanover ; † March 31, 1927 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer, member of parliament and author.

Life

August Leverkühn was a son of the Privy Councilor Carl Leverkühn and his wife Louise, b. Grisebach, a sister of August Grisebach . The ornithologist Paul Leverkühn was his brother. After attending Lyceum I in Hanover, he studied law at the Universities of Leipzig and Göttingen . He did his legal clerkship in the area of ​​the Higher Regional Court of Celle ; then he became an assessor at the Hildesheim District Court .

On August 1, 1890, he was appointed as a judge at the Lübeck District Court and in 1908 appointed to the District Court Council. Since 1895 responsibility for guardianship matters was transferred from the city and rural authorities to the district court, Leverkuhn was responsible for it. He was also chairman of the labor arbitration tribunals , the trade and merchant courts .

Leverkühn was culturally and socially engaged in a variety of ways. He was a member of the Lübeck citizenship (until July 1903) and since its foundation in 1896 belonged to the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck , first as secretary, later also as chairman. As a longstanding member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , he gave several lectures on legal and economic topics.

He was married to Ida, geb. Struckmann, the daughter of Hildesheim's Lord Mayor Gustav Struckmann . The couple had two sons, including Paul Leverkuehn , and a daughter. The family lived at Schillerstrasse 1a.

Literary

Leverkühn was an early writer. However, he went down in literary history as the legal guardian of Senator Mann's children , including Thomas Mann , and as the namesake of his literary figure Adrian Leverkühn .

When the Society of Friends of the Lübeck City Library named Thomas Mann an honorary member on his 50th birthday, Leverkühn signed the certificate as chairman.

Awards

Fonts

  • Content and interpretation of the Song of Songs: Lecture given in the Lübeck Schiller Foundation on March 2, 1892. Leipzig: Faber 1892
  • Youth poems. Leipzig: Avenarius 1900
  • Dante's pilgrimage through the afterlife. 1900
  • Industrial settlement: a contribution to solving the questions raised by the construction of a blast furnace not far from Lübeck. Lecture, given on March 6, 1906 in the Lübeck Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities. Lübeck: Quitzow 1906
  • Dante's Beatrice. Lübeck: Otto Quitzow 1925
  • Jürgen Wullenwever: his handwriting and his picture in the Lübeck city library. Lübeck: Society of Friends of the City Library 1925

literature

  • Leverkühn, August , in: August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel (ed.): Who is it? 6 (1912), p. 941

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Schneider: The literary portrait: Sources, models and models in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. Berlin: Frank & Timme 2005 ISBN 978-3-86596-001-6 , p. 176 f.
  2. ↑ Leverkühn's eldest brother, the ornithologist Paul Leverkühn , was also the private secretary of Prince Ferdinand I (Bulgaria)
personal data
SURNAME Leverkühn, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leverkuehn, August; Leverkühn, August Otto Author (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, member of parliament and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1927
Place of death Lübeck