Carl von Zeipel

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Carl Samuel Fredrik von Zeipel (born March 28, 1793 in Sölvesborg , † February 12, 1849 in Järlåsa ) was a Swedish writer and poet.

Life

Zeipel, the son of the German factory owner couple Johan Fredrik von Zeipel and Kristina Juliana Ziervogel, moved with his parents to the Järlåsa municipality in Uppland in 1801 to take over the Lingonbacka paper mill they had inherited . He enrolled at Uppsala University as a student at the age of eleven and passed his law firm examination six years later (1811) with distinction. He also intended to pass the law exam , but gave up this project in favor of writing and business. In 1816 he married Fredrika Wilhelmina Haeffner, daughter of the composer Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner . As a businessman, he ran the academic printing company in Uppsala with Vilhelm Fredrik Palmblad from 1815 to 1819.In the last years of his life he settled as a factory owner on his parents' farm, Lingonbacka, and died there in 1849 at the age of 56.

job

His first lyrical and epic-lyrical poems appeared in the Poetic Calendar and in the literary magazine Phosphoros , and later also in the Svea calendar . He also translated the tragedy Martin Luther by Zacharias Werner into Swedish. After that, his pen rested for several years as his main focus was on business matters. After a few years, Zeipel got into economic difficulties, which led to the fact that around 1840 only the house remained of his land. Driven by the need to support his large family, he then resumed writing. He wrote a variety of historical novels and short stories, which were received with great acclaim. He wrote a number of patriotic epics, but also novellas such as Letter without Address , The King 's Carriage and Waller's Carriage and in 1849 published the three-part novel The Conspirators or Mord and Coronation (Sw .: De sammansvurne eller mord och kröning ), which became one of his best works counts. Of Zeipel's lyrical works, the poem-wreath Evangelical Romances from 1820 found the greatest popularity, which impressed with its informal and sonorous expression.

A significant number of poems were set to music by Otto Lindblad and Johan Erik Nordblom .

Works (selection)

  • Novellas (1842)
  • Two Sons of the Muses and a Joker or Linneus, Artedi and Rubeck (1842)
  • Malcolm Sinclair's murder (1843)
  • Charles XI., Rabenius and the witch trial (1845)
  • King Charles XI. and his favorites (1846)
  • Wasa heirs in Rome (1846)
  • Seton (1847)
  • De sammansvurne eller Mord och kröning (1849)

literature

  • Swedish biographical hand dictionary (1906; II: 759)
  • Henrik Schück, Karl Johan Warburg, Gunnar Castrén, Erik Hjalmar Linder, Illustrerad svensk litteraturhistorai , Volume 5, 1926
  • Hermes, or Critical Yearbook of Literature , No. 20, 1823

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schück, Warburg, Castrén, Linder, Illustrerad svensk litteraturhistorai
personal data
SURNAME Zeipel, Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeipel, Carl Samuel Fredrik von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Solvesborg
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1849
Place of death Järlåsa