Carl Wilhelm Eichel

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Carl Wilhelm Eichel , also modernized Karl Wilhelm Eichel , (born March 12, 1812 in Leipzig , † December 5, 1874 in Bautzen ) was a German lawyer, local politician, novelist and translator.

Life

Eichel attended the Raths Free School in his native Leipzig. He later switched to the Thomas School there . He studied law at the University of Leipzig and in Friedrichs University Halle . After successfully completing his studies, Eichel entered the Saxon civil service and worked, among other things, as a recorder and (vice) actuary at the district and justice offices in Leipzig, Rochlitz, Colditz, Pegau, Stollberg and Grimma.

He later successfully ran for mayor of the town of Kamenz in Upper Lusatia, Saxony, where he settled down for the rest of his life. During his tenure, after several attempts, the Lessingturm was inaugurated on the Hutberg near Kamenz.

Since the mid-1830s, Eichel increasingly occupied himself with short stories, some of which he wrote himself. He also earned special services by translating well over 100 works from Swedish into German. These include books by Friederike Bremer, Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Countess Knorring and Count Pehr Sparre. Almost without exception, these works were published between 1838 and 1861 by FA Brockhaus and Chr. E. Kollmann in Leipzig.

Wilhelm Eichel died on a business trip that had taken him to Bautzen in the capital of Upper Lusatia at the beginning of December 1874.

Works (selection)

  • Shadow of life and love. Short story bouquet , Berlin, 1835.
  • Tabulae processus Saxonici in usum studiosorum, qui ad scrutinium legitimum se praeparare volunt , Leipzig, 1837.
  • Lathonia , Bunzlau, 1838.
  • The great fires at Kamenz in 1572 and 1588 . In: New Lusatian magazine. Journal of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences, Görlitz, Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences, 48 ​​(1871), pp. 297–309.

literature

  • Wilhelm Haan : Saxon writer's lexicon. Robert Schaefer's Verlag, Leipzig 1875, p. 60.
  • Mayor Carl Wilhelm Eichel (1812–1874). In: Kamenz. Contributions to the history and culture of Lessingstadt. Festschrift of the city of Kamenz. Published on the occasion of the 775th anniversary of its first documentary mention. Kamenz, 2000.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Saxon Court Civil and Military State , 1845, p. 67.
personal data
SURNAME Eichel, Carl Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichel, Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, local politician, novelist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1874
Place of death Bautzen