Carl Borromeo Cünzer

Carl (Karl) Borromäus Cünzer (born October 11, 1816 in Aachen , † November 10, 1872 in Vienna ) was a German writer .

Live and act

Carl Borromäus Cünzer, descended from the Englerth- Münzer family in Eschweiler and son of a lawyer and later Vice President of the Tribunal de première instance de l'Arrondissement d'Aix-la-Chapelle, quit his service as a lieutenant hunter in the Prussian Army and went on study trips. From 1831 studied Cünzer at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn Law , among others Ferdinand Mackeldey , Karl Dietrich Hüllmann , Ferdinand Walter and Eduard Joseph d'Alton . Here he met the daughter of the university professor Ferdinand Wurzer and married her.

In 1836 Cünzer moved to Aachen and was a member of the regulars' table of the Kaiserliche Krone at Alexanderstraße 34. There he met for regular discussions with, among others, Alfred Polycarp von Hompesch and David Hansemann , with the poet Wilhelm Smets , the author of the illustrated family paper Gartenlaube Friedrich Albert Bacciocco and the then trainee lawyer Otto von Bismarck . Cünzer was a supporter of Bismarck and his idea of a united Germany. Later in Koblenz he belonged to the circle of Crown Princess Augusta of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and often read aloud at social meetings. In the 1960s he moved to Vienna where he maintained contacts with the artist and court actor Ludwig Gabillon , the actress Charlotte Wolter and the chamber singer Marie Louise Dustmann-Meyer , who also came from Aachen . The writer Gottfried Kinkel ensured Cünzer's popularity.

Works

Cünzer's life's work includes 12 novellas in local color. The actions are inextricably linked to the Aachen locations of Lousberg , Alt-Linzenshäuschen , Ketschenburg, Pedstränk and Gut Tivoli . He wrote in a humorous and detailed style. His work Folie des Dames from 1851 with its main location in the Villa Tivoli in Aachen is a tradition . The fictional character Therese Ledru begins as a factory worker with the cloth manufacturer Kelleter behind the Wylreschen Hof and ends as the owner of the Villa Tivoli. Carl Borromäus Cünzer died on November 10, 1872 at the age of 56 in Vienna.

literature

Heinrich Freimuth: Aachen's poet and prose writer. An anthology, Vol. 2 . Stercken Verlag, Aachen 1882, pp. 257-261.
Carl Borromäus Cünzer (author), Paul Kuetgens (ed.): Folie des Dames . Aachener Verlags- und Druckereigesellschaft, reprinted by Verlag JA Mayer , Aachen, 1932 (illustrated by Bert Heller ).

Individual evidence

↑ Entry on Carl Borromäus Cünzer in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database .

↑ See Paul Kuetgens 1932, p. 11.

↑ The castle, potions and Tivoli estate no longer exist.

↑ Newly edited as an old Aachen novella by Paul Kuetgens and illustrated by Bert Heller , Aachen 1932. Around 1932 Kuetgens found the original version with Anna Suermondt-Englerth at her Libermé Palace in Belgium.

personal data
SURNAME	Cünzer, Carl Borromeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cünzer, Karl Borromeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 11, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen
DATE OF DEATH	November 10, 1872
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Entry on Carl Borromäus Cünzer in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database .

[2] See Paul Kuetgens 1932, p. 11.

[3] The castle, potions and Tivoli estate no longer exist.

[4] Newly edited as an old Aachen novella by Paul Kuetgens and illustrated by Bert Heller , Aachen 1932. Around 1932 Kuetgens found the original version with Anna Suermondt-Englerth at her Libermé Palace in Belgium.