Carl Friedrich August Grosse
Carl Friedrich August Grosse (born June 5, 1768 in Magdeburg , † March 15, 1847 in Copenhagen ) was a German writer, translator and geologist .
Life
Born the son of a doctor, Carl Friedrich August Grosse first attended grammar school. In 1788 he began his medical studies in Göttingen and continued this in Halle .
As early as 1790 he returned to Göttingen “as a Stolberg court and forest councilor, as a Knight of Malta, Marquis von Grosse and Count von Vargas” . After serving in the military in Spain in 1791 , he served in Italy from 1792 to 1809 under the name "Count Vargas" . Much of his literary work was created during this time.
Under the name "Count von Vargas-Bedemar" he was in the service of the Danish government in Copenhagen , where he was entrusted with high offices and was friends with the king. In his capacity as a geologist, he was a member of several scientific societies.
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Grosse himself said of his writing: “I confess that I only wrote for entertainment” , but was very much appreciated by romantic writers such as Ludwig Tieck , Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder and ETA Hoffmann .
Works
- About the sublime , Göttingen / Leipzig 1788
- Helim or about the migration of souls , Zittau 1789
- The genius. From the papers of the Marquis C * von G ** , Halle 1790–94
- Small novels , 4 volumes, Halle 1793–95
- La Palinière , hall 1793
- The dagger , 4 parts, Berlin 1794/95 (also English: The dagger , 1795)
- Spanish novels , 4 parts, Berlin 1794–96
- Oriental stories , Berlin 1795
- The floral wreath , 2 parts, Zittau 1795/96
- Chlorinde , Berlin 1796
- Love and Loyalty , 2 volumes, Halle 1796/97
- Decameron from the Count of Vargas , Berlin 1797
- The broken ring , 2 parts, Berlin 1797
literature
- Günter Dammann: Afterword. In: Carl Grosse: The Genius. From the papers of the Marquis C * von G ** (reprint after the first edition 1791–95). Frankfurt a. M. 1982, pp. 725-848.
- Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 2nd Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1893, vol. 5, p. 492 f.
- Michael Hadley: The Undiscovered Genre. A Search for the German Gothic Novel , Bern 1978.
- Günter Hartmann: Grosse, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 150 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Else Kornerup: Count Edouard Romeo Vargas. CG An Examination of Their Identity , Copenhagen 1954.
- Johannes Maczewski: Grosse, Karl (Friedrich August) . In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, vol. 4, p. 452 f.
- Marianne Thalmann: The romanticism of the trivial , Munich 1970.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Friedrich August Grosse in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Carl Friedrich August Grosse in the Gutenberg-DE project
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Johannes Maczewski: Grosse, Karl (Friedrich August) , in: Walther Killy (Hg.), Literaturlexikon, Volume 4, Munich 1988, page 371f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grosse, Carl Friedrich August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, translator and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1847 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |