August Daniel von Binzer

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August von Binzer

Baron August Daniel von Binzer (born May 30, 1793 in Kiel ; † March 20, 1868 in Neisse , Silesia ) was a German poet , journalist and fraternity member .

origin

His parents were Johann Ludwig Jacob Freiherr von Binzer (* February 14, 1746 in Langenselbold, Hesse; † November 11, 1811 in Kiel) and Margaretha Elisabeth Louise Ericius (* February 7, 1760 in Schleswig; † September 21, 1839 in Kiel) .

Life

Binzer studied at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and the University of Jena . In 1817 he was the founding father of the fraternity movement in Kiel, where he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity in Kiel . In Jena he joined the original fraternity . He took part in the Wartburg Festival of 1817 .

He became known through two of his songs, Toast! (1817) and we had built a stately house (1819). The second song was created to dissolve the Jena fraternity and contains the line “The band is cut up / War Roth Black and Gold”, in which the three colors of the fraternity were recorded in writing for the first time. The latter song was immortalized much later (1881) by Johannes Brahms as a trumpet theme in his Academic Festival Overture.

As a journalist and writer, v. Binzer in many German cities, including Altenburg , Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) , Flensburg , Leipzig , Cologne and Augsburg . He wrote for newspapers , edited encyclopedias, and published short stories and short stories .

Was married to v. Binzer since 1822 with the writer Emilie Henriette Adelheid von Gerschau , who outlived him by 21 years. A street in Linz is named after her. He spent his last years in Linz and Altaussee in Styria . Several children came from the marriage, including the writer and painter Carl von Binzer .

Works

Binzer in the register of the original fraternity
Memorial plaque in Linz
Venice in 1844
  • August Daniel von Binzer: Contribution to answering the question: What can currently be done in Germany to promote general prosperity? 1820 ( books-google.de ).
  • Report on the celebrations that took place when the foundation stone of the German Booksellers' Exchange was laid in Leipzig on October 26, 1834.
  • August Daniel von Binzer: Venice in 1844 1845.

Stories and short stories

  • The brothers .
  • Leonore. The emigrants .
  • Fate of Princess Petrovna. Joanna .

editor

  • Benjamin Franklin : Life and Writings .
  • Peter von Gerschau: From the life of Freiherr Heinrich Ludwig von Nicolay , former imperial Russian secret councilor .
  • Conrad Friedrich von Schmidt-Phiseldek: About the recent excitement in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein .

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Binzer, August von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1870, p. 484 ( digitized version ).
  • Rochus von Liliencron :  Binzer, August Daniel Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 653.
  • Siegfried Krebs: August Daniel von Binzer or the end of romance. A novel. Fischer, Berlin 1912.
  • Kurt Stephenson: Characters in Student Music. August Daniel von Binzer - Justus Wilhelm Lyra. In: Paul Wentzcke (Ed.): Representations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the 19th and 20th centuries. Winter, Heidelberg 1965, Volume 6, pp. 11-64.
  • Kurt Stephenson: August Daniel von Binzer. The demagogue fate of an apolitical . In: Paul Wentzcke (Ed.): Representations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the 19th and 20th centuries. Winter, Heidelberg 1965, Volume 5, pp. 128-182.
  • Günter Steiger: "Was Roth black and gold ...". An essay on the history of the Jena fraternity from 1815 to 1819. Jena 1986.
  • Peter Kaupp : The singer of the original fraternity. August Daniel von Binzer (1793–1868). In: SK Student Courier. 1/2014 ( Association for German Student History ), pp. 6–7.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 63–65.

Web links

Commons : August Daniel von Binzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: August Daniel von Binzer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ teuten.de
  2. ^ Peter Kaupp (edit.): Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815-1819 (= treatises on student and higher education. Volume 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89498-156-3 , p. 124.
  3. ^ Acta Studentica. 43/182, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Binzer, August Daniel von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, journalist and fraternity member
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel , Duchy of Holstein
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1868
Place of death Neisse , Silesia