August Siegfried von Goué

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August Siegfried of Goue (* 2. August 1743 in Hildesheim ; † 26. February 1789 in Steinfurt ) was a lawyer, who after they leave the service of the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar by Johann Jakob Hofler behind exaggerated dismissal writer and Freemason was.

Life

August Siegfried von Goué (or: Goue) was initially court judge in Wolfenbüttel and from 1767 to 1771 as legation secretary of the subdelegate of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel Johann Jakob Höfler at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar . After his release, he lived in Wetzlar as a private citizen until July 1772 and got to know Goethe , who in May 1772 became a legal trainee at the Imperial Court of Justice. In 1779 Goué entered the service of Count von Bentheim-Steinfurt .

Goué was a driving force in the theatrical and social life of the younger lawyers in Wetzlar. He was known and notorious for his inclination to drink and play, and he was often active as a writer: he wrote plays and occasional poems, published a weekly, parodied the court and made a name for himself with mystifications. Goethe reports on this activity in Book 12 of Poetry and Truth . Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther inspired Goué to play the tragedy Masuria or Young Werther (1775). The correction of the story of the young Werther , which appeared at the same time, refers to the events in Wetzlar.

Goué became known for his writings on Freemasonry ("About the whole of masonry", 1782, revised 1788) and his confusing game with secret orders and their rites ("Der hoeere Ruf", 1768, 2nd increased edition 1769).

He died in 1798 at the age of 46, almost 8 years to the day after Johann Jakob Höfler .

literature

  • Under number code "27": The knight's union with the order of the transition to Wetzlar and the order of the crazy court councilors. In: Sheets for literary entertainment. 1852, No. 52, pp. 1225–1230 ( digitized version )
  • Eduard Bodemann:  Goué, Siegfried von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 521 f.
  • Dirk Sangmeister: The Insel Felsenburg is located in a pond near Braunschweig. About Goethe, Goue and the Order of Argonauts in Riddagshausen. In: Sabine Kyora, Axel Dunker u. Dirk Sangmeister (ed.): Literature without compromise . Bielefeld, Aisthesis, 2004. pp. 129–140.
  • Alfred Zastrau:  Goué, Siegfried von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , pp. 690-692 ( digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paulin, Roger: The case of Wilhelm Jerusalem: on the suicide problem between enlightenment and sensitivity . Göttingen 1999, p. 19ff.
  2. ↑ Schrader, Erich; Johann Jakob Höfler, the archetype of the envoy in Gothes Werther, in Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch 33, 1952, p. 133
personal data
SURNAME Goué, August Siegfried von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goue, August Siegfried von; Goué, August Friedrich von; Goue, Siegfried von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1789
Place of death Steinfurt