Carl Weitbrecht

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Carl Weitbrecht
Grave in the Prague cemetery

Carl (Theodor) Weitbrecht (born December 8, 1847 in Neuhengstett ; † June 10, 1904 in Stuttgart ) was a German deacon , writer and literary historian as well as a university professor and rector at the Technical University of Stuttgart .

Live and act

Weitbrecht came from the Schorndorf branch of the Weitbrecht family and was the son of pastor Karl Gottlieb Weitbrecht (1810–1886) and Julie Finck (1823–1893). During his studies in 1865 he became a member of the Arminia Tübingen fraternity . After studying theology and German at the University of Tübingen , Weitbrecht initially accepted a position as a deacon in Schwaigern near Heilbronn from 1874 . In 1886 he followed a call to Zurich for a position as rector of the secondary school for girls that is todayTo take part in the Hohe Promenade Cantonal School and the local teachers' seminar. In 1894 Weitbrecht moved to what was then the Technical University of Stuttgart, where he was taken on as a full professor of German literature and, in addition, headed the university from 1902 until his death in 1904, succeeding Jakob Johann von Weyrauch as its rector.

During his time as a deacon he worked with his brother Richard Weitbrecht , also a writer, but also with Eduard Paulus, from several volumes with stories and poems from Swabia . Weitbrecht finally devoted himself to his own writing activities, although he now mainly published novellas but also texts on songs of war and homeland, as well as first literary-historical analyzes. Since his time in Zurich, Weitbrecht also tried his hand at a number of works as a dramaturge and presented his dramaturgical views in the book: Das deutsche Drama . Only after his return to Stuttgart did Weitbrecht become more active as a literary historian, although he did so in the context of a book review his two volumes of the German literary history by Rudolf Steiner were accused of anti-Semitic views.

Carl Weitbrecht was married to Julie Klemm (1842–1914) and had four sons and three daughters with her. His grave is in the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart-Nord .

Works (selection)

  • Songs of one who is not allowed to go ; War songs, Stuttgart, 1870
  • What the moon shines on . Poems based on pictures by Hugo Knorr ; Stuttgart, 1873
  • Poems ; Stuttgart. 1875, 3rd ed. 1880;
  • What about social democracy?, Levy & Müller, Stuttgart, 1880
  • Stray people ; six novellas, Stuttgart, 1882
  • Nohmôl Schwôbagschichta ; Stuttgart, 1882; Co-author: Richard Weitbrecht
  • Gschichta'n from Schwôbaland ; Stuttgart 1877, 2nd edition, 1883; Co-author: Richard Weitbrecht
  • Swabian book of poets ; Stuttgart, 1883; Co-author: Eduard Paulus
  • Story book ; Stuttgart, 1884
  • Calendar dispute in Sindringen ; Stuttgart, 1885
  • Homecoming ; two novellas, Stuttgart, 1886
  • Solstice ; new seals, Stuttgart, 1890
  • Sigrun ; Stuttgart, 1891
  • Phalana, the suffering of a book ; Zurich, 1892; 2nd edition, Stuttgart, 1895
  • This side of Weimar . Also a book about Goethe ; Stuttgart, 1895
  • Doctor Schmidt , comedy based on Friedrich Schiller , Stuttgart, 1896
  • Schiller in his dramas ; Stuttgart, 1897
  • Württemberg as it was and is . Described in a series of patriotic stories from the oldest days in Württemberg up to our time. With original drawings by A. Federer and others. 4 vols. 11th edition, Stuttgart; Daser-Verlag, 1898
  • Stories of a deceased ; Adolf Bonz, Stuttgart, 1898
  • Swarming spirits ; Tragedy, Stuttgart, 1900
  • The German drama , Berlin , 1900
  • Schiller and the German Present ; Stuttgart, 1901
  • German literary history of the 19th century ; Georg Joachim Göschen 's publishing house, Leipzig , 1901
  • German literary history of the classics ; Georg Joachim Göschen'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig, 1901
  • Collected poems ; Stuttgart 1903

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 717-719.
  • Walter Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus: Dictionary of German Biography , Vol. 10, KG Saur, Munich, 2006; P. 435 google-online

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Weitbrecht  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The grave of Carl Weitbrecht on knerger.de
personal data
SURNAME Weitbrecht, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weitbrecht Karl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German deacon, writer, literary historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH New stallion
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1904
Place of death Stuttgart