Bernhard Abeken
Bernhard Abeken (born March 27, 1826 in Braunschweig ; † April 1, 1901 there ), pseudonym Ernst Andolt , was a German writer , lawyer and politician .
life and work
Bernhard Abeken was the son of a merchant from Osnabrück who founded a wine shop in Braunschweig . Due to the inheritance of his wealthy father, who died in 1843, Abeken was financially independent throughout his life. After attending the Martino-Katharineum , he studied law , history , literature and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg , Bonn and Berlin from 1845 to 1849 , and became a member of the Alemannia fraternity in Bonn .
Abeken worked as an auditor from 1850 and as a lawyer in Braunschweig from 1856 . He soon gave up legal activity in order to pursue his literary and journalistic interests and to undertake educational trips, including to Italy. From 1870 to 1874 he was in charge of the political section of the liberal Braunschweiger Tageblatt .
- Political activity
From 1874 to 1877 he was a national liberal member of the Reichstag for the constituency of the Duchy of Braunschweig 2 (Wolfenbüttel-Helmstedt). From 1882 to 1892 he was the representative of the city of Braunschweig in the Braunschweig state parliament .
Literary man and "clothing seller"
His first literary work was the novella Eine Nacht , which took place during the Wars of Liberation and appeared in Westermann's monthly magazine under the pseudonym Ernst Andolt . His college friend Paul Heyse included the work , which was reprinted several times, in his " German Novell Treasure " (Volume 22). This was followed by the less successful novel Greifensee , which was published in 1862 under Abeken's name.
In October 1859 Abeken met Wilhelm Raabe for the first time , with whom he had a long-term friendship, especially in the context of the sociable association of “ clothing sellers ”. Abeken was also friends with Levin Goldschmidt and the Huch family .
The Nobel Prize winner Paul Heyse (1830-1914) wrote in his memoirs about him: "Abeken was a moss-covered head, four years older than me, and made soon in his home the first legal examination. His clear, critical mind and a dry sense of humor with which he treated us younger people did not show the warm disposition at first glance. But there was even a bit of a poet in him. "
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-825-30339-X , pp. 1-2. (with picture).
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 19 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernhard Abeken at the BSZ
- Bernhard Abeken in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Bernhard Abeken's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurt Selle : Opposition fraternity members in the state of Braunschweig. Wolfenbüttel 1999, p. 20, online (PDF; 222 kB)
- ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 279.
- ^ Cf. Ernst Andolt [di Bernhard Abeken]: One night . In: German Novellenschatz. Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 22nd 2nd edition Berlin, [1910], pp. 211-287. In: Thomas Weitin (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz. Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abeken, Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Andolt, Ernst (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, lawyer and politician, MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1901 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |