Carl Seidel

This article deals with the writer and philosopher Carl Seidel. For other people see Karl Seidel .

Carl Seidel or Karl Ludwig Seidel (born October 14, 1788 in Berlin ; † August 15, 1844 there ) was an art writer, philosopher and poet .

Life

Seidel was originally supposed to take up the profession of a businessman, but studied philosophy and art studies. In 1826 he received his doctorate in philosophy and in 1840 received the title of professor. On July 30, 1840, he married his student Emilie Detroit.

He also played guitar and wrote theoretical articles, short stories and travelogues for numerous magazines. His novella Der Brautkampf , which appeared in the Dresdner Abendzeitung in 1819 and which inspired Theodor Hell to write the opera libretto The Three Pintos , is significant . It was set to music by Carl Maria von Weber , but remained a fragment.

Robert Schumann in particular considered Seidel's musical writings so important that he won him over as a collaborator for his Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and corresponded with him from 1834 to 1835.

Works

• Charinomos. Contributions to the general theory and history of the fine arts , 2 volumes, Magdeburg 1825 and 1828
• De saltationibus sacris veterum Romanorum dissertatio , Berlin 1826
• The fine arts in Berlin in 1826 , Berlin 1826 (digitized version)
• The fine arts in Berlin in 1828 , Berlin 1828
• Berlin's architecture in terms of art history , Berlin 1830 (digitized version)
• Blüchers monument to Berlin with histor. Looking back on the development of plastic art , Berlin 1830
• The beautiful , o. O. (1835)
• The cross in the Mark , Berlin 1838

literature

• Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Seidel, Karl Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 621-623.
• Julius Bartsch, Carl Seidel. His life and work. A memorial dedicated to his students, admirers and friends , Berlin 1845 ( digitized version )
• Carl Freiherr von Ledebur , Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present , Berlin: Rauh 1861, p. 541 ( digitized version )
• Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin 1832 to 1883 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (=  Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Cologne: Dohr 2015, pp. 597-607, ISBN 978-3-86846-028-5