Carl Lang (writer)

Carl Lang

Friedrich Carl Lang (born October 27, 1766 in Heilbronn ; † May 16, 1822 at Wackerbarth Castle on Naundorfer Flur, today Radebeul ; also Karl Lang ) was a German writer , educator and engraver , also known by the pseudonyms Karl August Hirschmann and August Lindemann .

Live and act

After studying law in Erlangen and Göttingen , Carl Lang became attorney at law firm and archival accessist in the knightly canton of Kraichgau of the Swabian knightly district of the imperial knighthood in his native Heilbronn in 1789, and in 1795 he was secretary of the canton. A colleague in the office of the canton Kraichgau was Jakob Gottlieb Reuss (1753–1839), archivist there since 1780, consultant since 1795, who through his cousin Christian Friedrich von Reuss (1745–1813), an expert in animal magnetism , spoke to Dr . Eberhard Gmelin's patient Charlotte Elisabethe Zobel was related by marriage. In 1796, Lang became a city judge and in 1797 a senator for the Free Imperial City of Heilbronn. The first literary publications were made in his early years: Lang published an Aesop translation in 1786 and his first volume of poetry. After he had won the senate of his hometown for the support of the relocation of the copper printing works of the closed Hohen Karlsschule , he first founded a studio for copper printing and then in 1796 the Schwäbisches Industrie-Comptoir , an art publisher, which went bankrupt in 1799.

Lang then decided to flee, leaving his family behind in Heilbronn, and turned the writing he had already practiced during his studies into a profession. After stops in Altona, Berlin and Leipzig, Lang settled in Tharandt , Saxony , where in 1810 he founded what was later to become an internationally renowned educational institution for boys .

In 1816 he acquired the Wackerbarths Ruh ' Castle (Naundorfer Weinbergsflur, from 1839 rural community Niederlößnitz , now part of Radebeul), which was directly subordinate to the Dresden office, for his boys' education institution, which attracted many prominent guests there near Dresden. Lang died in his castle in 1822. Lang's son-in-law Carl Vogel , who was involved in the management of the educational institution, was the father of the writer Elise Polko, born there in 1822, and of the Africa researcher Eduard Vogel .

Many of the works written by Lang and some of which he edited himself were also provided with his own illustrations (copperplate engravings).

Friedrich Hölderlin's later publisher Carl Lang had been a Freemason since September 12, 1790, a member of the Frankfurt Freemason Lodge, which was founded as the Johannisloge "L'Union" on March 1, 1742, although it was inactive from June 8, 1793 to January 12, 1798 because of the war time " Zur Einigkeit ”, the two uncles of Hölderlin's employer Jakob (“ Kobus ”) Friedrich Gontard-Borkenstein (1764–1843), the husband of Hölderlin's lover“ Diotima ”, Susette Gontard , née. Borkenstein (1769–1802), affiliated: Johann Heinrich Gontard-du Bosc (1736–1799), since 1773 owner of the manorial property Weißer Hirsch at Großer Hirschgraben 3, where Jakob Friedrich Gontard-Borkenstein lived with his wife, and of course that Johann Jakob Freiherr von Gontard (1739–1819) probably lived mostly in what is now Austria.

Letter from Lang (pseudonym Aug. Lindemann) from Altona to Friedrich Haug in Stuttgart (1799)

Works

Title page of the library for painters, draftsmen, sculptors and lovers of the fine arts (1789)

Library for painters, draftsmen, sculptors and lovers of the fine arts / in friendly letters presented by Carl Lang. Erlangen 1789. ( Online review of the Allgemeine Literaturzeitung \ Volume 1789 \ Volume 4 \ Numero 315 ).
Letters for painters, draftsmen…. 1791-1792.
Historical paperback for the German nobility. 1795.
Almanac and paperback for domestic a. social Joys. With coppers by D. Chodowicki H. Guttenberg &. Frankfurt am Mayn with Guilhaumann and Heilbronn am Neckar with the publisher, 1797 ( online version ).
Temple of nature and art. 1802.
Summer flowers. Painting of human life. Leipzig 1803.
The housekeeping of the people on every corner of the sky. 1804-1807.
Description of the Plauen reason, the bathing resort Tharant u. its surroundings. 1812.
Demolition of the manners and customs of all Nazions. Nuremberg 1810–1827.
Historical Memories. 1813-1815.
Knight Göz von Berlichingen with an iron hand. 1825.
Knight Franz von Sickingen. 1825.

literature

Lang, Karl (Friedrich K.) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928.
Gustav [Eugen] Lang : Friedrich Karl Lang. Life and work of an epigone of the Enlightenment period. With illustrations (= representations from the history of Württemberg. Volume 5). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1911.
Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
Annette Geisler: Carl Lang. In: Heilbronner Köpfe IV Heilbronnica (= small series of publications from the Heilbronn City Archives. 52). Heilbronn 2007, pp. 145-160.
Hans Peter Buohler: Lang, Carl. In: Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. Founded by Walther Killy, edited by Wilhelm Kühlmann (among others). Second, completely revised. Edition. Volume 7. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022048-3 , pp. 198 f.

Web links

More works by Lang
Entry for Carl Lang in the HEUSS database
Entry on Moral Pictures Cabinet for Young Boys and Girls (1813) in the HEUSS database
Entry on library for painters, draftsmen, sculptors and lovers of the fine arts (1789) in the HEUSS database
Entry for a letter from Carl Lang to Friedrich Haug in Stuttgart (1799) in the HEUSS database

Individual evidence

^ Cf. Gustav [Eugen] Lang: Friedrich Karl Lang , p. 40.
↑ Cf. Reinhard Breymayer: Between Princess Antonia of Württemberg and Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn. News on the magnetic and tension fields of Prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger. Heck, Dußlingen (2010), p. 8. 15 f. 44 f. 59 f. 69. Lang's later stay in Dresden, at the same time as Kleist, also resulted in a possible literarily significant connection between Heilbronn and Kleist, to which Christhard Schrenk refers.
↑ Reinhard Breymayer : Prelate Oetinger's nephew Eberhard Christoph v. Oetinger, in Stuttgart Freemason and Superior of the Illuminati, in Wetzlar a judge at the Imperial Court of Justice [...]. 2., improved edition. Heck, Tübingen (2010), p. 8. 37 f. with note 53 f. on p. 77 f. See p. 77 the reference to B [enjamin] Reges: History of the Lodge for Unity in Frankfurt a. M. 1742-1892. Declaration of the lodge for unity at the celebration of its 150th anniversary on October 16, 1892 . Frankfurt am Main 1892, pp. 105–143: “Directory of the brothers admitted and affiliated to the Lodge for Unity since the Foundation Festival”, here p. 109 under April 5, 1761 on the affiliation of “Jean Henri Gontard”, p. 110 on February 11, 1764 to the affiliation of "Jean Jakob Gontard". On September 12, 1790, p. 118 is mentioned as a newly admitted lodge brother "Karl Lang", "Reichs-Rittersch [afts] .- Canton Craichgau-Archival-Accessist" in "Heilbronn".

personal data
SURNAME	Lang, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lang, Friedrich Carl; Karl August Hirschmann (pseudonym); August Lindemann (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer, educator and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH	May 16, 1822
Place of death	at Wackerbarth Castle on Naundorfer Flur, today Radebeul

[1] Cf. Gustav [Eugen] Lang: Friedrich Karl Lang , p. 40.

[2] Cf. Reinhard Breymayer: Between Princess Antonia of Württemberg and Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn. News on the magnetic and tension fields of Prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger. Heck, Dußlingen (2010), p. 8. 15 f. 44 f. 59 f. 69. Lang's later stay in Dresden, at the same time as Kleist, also resulted in a possible literarily significant connection between Heilbronn and Kleist, to which Christhard Schrenk refers.

[3] Reinhard Breymayer : Prelate Oetinger's nephew Eberhard Christoph v. Oetinger, in Stuttgart Freemason and Superior of the Illuminati, in Wetzlar a judge at the Imperial Court of Justice [...]. 2., improved edition. Heck, Tübingen (2010), p. 8. 37 f. with note 53 f. on p. 77 f. See p. 77 the reference to B [enjamin] Reges: History of the Lodge for Unity in Frankfurt a. M. 1742-1892. Declaration of the lodge for unity at the celebration of its 150th anniversary on October 16, 1892 . Frankfurt am Main 1892, pp. 105–143: “Directory of the brothers admitted and affiliated to the Lodge for Unity since the Foundation Festival”, here p. 109 under April 5, 1761 on the affiliation of “Jean Henri Gontard”, p. 110 on February 11, 1764 to the affiliation of "Jean Jakob Gontard". On September 12, 1790, p. 118 is mentioned as a newly admitted lodge brother "Karl Lang", "Reichs-Rittersch [afts] .- Canton Craichgau-Archival-Accessist" in "Heilbronn".