August von Arnswaldt
August Friedrich Ernst von Arnswaldt (born August 13, 1798 in Hanover ; † June 25, 1855 there ) was a German writer.
Life
He came from the Thuringian noble family von Arnswaldt and was the eldest son of the Hanoverian minister and curator of the Göttingen University Karl Friedrich Alexander von Arnswaldt . He attended high school in Gotha and studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1816 to 1820 , while studying German literature. He was a member of the Corps Hannovera and together with his corps brother Rudolf Christiani , probably also Carl August Heinrich Zwicker , he was also a member of the student literary association Poetic Schusterinnung an der Leine in 1817 . It is reported from August von Arnswaldt that he pretended to be a love affair with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff in order to test her loyalty for his friend Heinrich Straube . Von Arnswaldt was connected to Straube and the aforementioned through the publication of the literary newspaper Wünschelruthe (1818).
Arnswaldt belonged to a so-called Bökendorfer district and there met Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. She first came to Bökendorf at the age of eight to visit her grandparents. The founders and the bearers of the Bökendorfer Kreis were the brothers Werner von Haxthausen and August von Haxthausen and their sisters Anna von Haxthausen , who later became the wife of August von Arnswaldt, Ludowine von Haxthausen and Ferdinandine von Haxthausen . Even Wilhelm Grimm came in 1811 after Bökendorf, his brother Jacob Grimm traveled 1,846 there. It was Arnswaldt who played an inglorious role in the Bökendorfer Kreis in relation to Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, in that he played a major role in the Droste's so-called "youth disaster". In 1820, the then 23-year-old Annette met the writer Heinrich Straube in Bökendorf . This was a friend of Arnswald and of unattractive appearance. A little later, the handsome Arnswaldt Annette made advances. When the writer agreed, Arnswaldt turned away and presented his behavior as a test of Annette's loyalty to his friend Straube. A rift broke out. Both Straube and Arnswaldt broke off their friendship with the young Droste. Confused and ashamed, Annette withdrew from Bökendorf and did not enter the house for twenty years. The event became a personal trauma. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff remained unmarried until her death in 1848. Arnswaldt married a sister of the Haxthausen brothers in 1830, who had also actively participated in the intrigue.
Arnswald became Kgl. Hanoverian Legation Councilor, but soon gave up his post at the legation in Paris. From then on he associated with the great intellectuals in the Kingdom of Hanover such as the Grimm brothers and lived as a private scholar on his income as a feudal lord on Hardenbostel (district of Asendorf (district of Diepholz) ) and Hoya as well as the Mecklenburg estates of Gustävel (today district of Kuhlen-Wendorf ) and Schönlage (district of Weitendorf (near Brüel) ). His lifestyle was shaped by a Lutheran form of the revival movement . In 1834 he was one of the co-founders of the Hanover Mission Association . His publications were predominantly theological in content and some appeared anonymously; the German lay theology , on which he worked for years, remained a fragment and was only edited in 1972. However, he exercised great personal influence on Philipp Spitta (1801-1859) and Ludwig Adolf Petri (1803-1873).
Arnswaldt Collection
He expanded the extensive private library he had taken over from his father and built an extensive collection of Low German manuscripts, including large parts of the library of the Augustinian convent in Nazareth in Geldern . This collection came to the Berlin State Library after Arnswaldt's death . In World War II outsourced, she returned essentially 1958th However, some pieces are still in Krakow due to outsourcing .
Fonts
- Four writings by J. Ruisbroeck in Low German. Edited by A. v. Arnswaldt. With a preface by C. Ullmann. Hanover 1828
- Contributions to Wünschelruthe , 1818
literature
- Georg Waitz: Arnswaldt, August Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 598.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Umbreit : In memory of Baron August von Arnswaldt. A monument to friendship. In: Theological Studies and Criticisms 1857.
- Alexander Reifferscheid : Description of the manuscript collection of Baron August von Arnswaldt in Hanover. North: Soltau 1887 (from the yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research IX-XI)
- Paul Fleisch (ed.): Victor von Strauss and Torney to August von Arnswaldt. Letters from the revival movement in Lower Saxony. . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht . 1960. (Studies on the church history of Lower Saxony; 12)
- Hansjörg Bräumer : August von Arnswald: 1798-1855; a contribution to the history of the revival movement and neo-Lutheranism in Hanover. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1972 (studies on the church history of Lower Saxony; 20), also: Göttingen, Univ., Theol. Fak., Diss. 1970. ISBN 3-525-55223-8
- Hansjörg Bräumer: August von Arnswaldt. The Hanoverian nobility and the Lutheran revival movement. In: Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 84 (1986), pp. 51–61.
- Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 33.
- Peter Heßelmann : August Freiherr von Haxthausen (1792-1866). Collector of fairy tales, sagas and folk songs, agricultural historians and travelers to Russia from Westphalia. Exhibition by the University Library of Münster February 24, 1992 - March 25, 1992 regensburg, Münster 1992 ISBN 3-9801781-1-0
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1903, p.69f
Web links
- Arnswald and Droste-Huelshoff
- Description of a manuscript from his collection in the manuscript repertory
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42 , 189
- ↑ Josepha Grauheer, Eduard Arens: The poetic Schusterinnung ... , p. 60
- ^ Straube-Arnswaldt affair
- ↑ Bräumer 1972 (Lit), pp. 184-228
- ^ Hans Walter Krumwiede : Church history of Lower Saxony: first and second part volume. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1996 ISBN 3-525-55434-6 , p. 302
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnswaldt, August von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arnswaldt, August Friedrich Ernst von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1855 |
| Place of death | Hanover |