Carl Friedrich Glasenapp

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Carl Friedrich Glasenapp (before 1908)

Carl Friedrich Glasenapp (born September 21, jul. / 3. October  1847 greg. In Riga ; † 14. April 1915 in Riga) was a Russian State Council and Wagner researcher. He was born as the son of the district school inspector Friedrich Glasenapp and his wife Emilie born. Kuhlmann born.

Life

After attending the Gouvernement Gymnasium in Riga, Carl Friedrich Glasenapp studied classical philology, art history and comparative linguistics at the University of Dorpat from 1867 to 1872 . He was a member of the Baltic Corporation Fraternitas Rigensis Dorpat. In 1873 he was employed as a high school teacher in Pernau , where in 1874 he married Henriette Rambach, the daughter of the local mayor of Justice Friedrich Rambach. From 1875 to 1904 he was senior teacher for German language and literature at the Municipal School for Daughters in Riga. From 1898 to 1912 he worked as a lecturer at the Riga Polytechnic . Due to his philological preoccupation with Richard Wagner's writings and music, he was a frequent visitor to the Bayreuth Festival and a guest at Haus Wahnfried . As a result, he gradually developed the decision to describe Wagner's life and work, and so in 1877 the first Wagner biography was written in two volumes. Together with the publicist Heinrich Freiherr von Stein , Carl Friedrich Glasenapp published a Wagner lexicon in 1883, and his two-volume Wagner encyclopedia appeared in 1891. Richard Wagner's extensive correspondence made it necessary to revise his biography from 1877, which was then published in 1911 under the title “The Life of Richard Wagner” and comprised six volumes (3107 pages). It is considered to be Glasenapp's life's work.

estate

After his death in 1915, his estate formed the basis of the Richard Wagner Memorial in Bayreuth, which was founded in 1924 by his foster daughter Helena Wallem (1873–1953) and of which she was the first director. The adjacent street was named Glasenappweg in 1927. In 1976 the Richard Wagner Memorial was closed, the holdings and the library (now approx. 11,000 volumes) were integrated into the Richard Wagner Museum .

Works

  • Wagner encyclopedia. Main phenomena d. Art and Cultural history in the light of Richard Wagner's view. In literal quotations from s. Fonts shown v. C. Fr. Glasenapp
  • The life of Richard Wagner . Six volumes. Leipzig 1876–1911. Digital edition: Volume 38 of the Small Digital Library of Directmedia Publishing , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89853-338-6
  • Siegfried Wagner and his art. Collected essays on d. dramatic. Works by Siegfried Wagner . 2 vols. Leipzig 1911-1919

Awards and honors

  • Honorary Citizen of Bayreuth (1928)
  • The traffic area in Bayreuth is named after him ( Glasenappweg )
  • 1903 nomination for the Nobel Prize for Literature

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Rosa and Volker carbon home: Bayreuth from AZ. Lexicon of Bayreuth street names . Rabenstein, Bayreuth 2009, ISBN 978-3-928683-44-9 , pp. 50 .