Charles Edouard Duboc

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Charles Edouard Duboc alias Robert Waldmüller

Charles Edouard Duboc (born September 17, 1822 in Hamburg , † April 15, 1910 in Dresden ) was a German writer and painter, brother of the writer and philosopher Julius Duboc . He wrote under the pseudonym Robert Waldmüller .

Life

Duboc was the son of a private scholar and partner in a factory. He received a commercial training and made numerous business trips through Europe. He studied painting a. a. at the academies in Düsseldorf and Dresden . From 1854 to 1856 he made a trip to Italy, returned to Germany in 1857 and turned to writing. In the spring of 1858 he undertook a long trip to Greece accompanied by Moritz Busch and contributed some drawings to his travel guide “Greece” (1859). In 1859 he settled in Dresden.

Villa Bergnest in Wachwitzer Bergstrasse 27
Villa in Strehlener Gustav-Adolf-Straße 12

Duboc worked for the magazines of Gustav Freytag and Karl Gutzkow , and he was a friend of Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin . He was one of the most famous writers of intellectual Dresden in the second half of the 19th century. From 1865 to 1903 he was a member of the board of directors of the Dresden branch of the German Schiller Foundation and from 1875 to 1879 at the same time chairman of the German Schiller Foundation. He maintained contacts and a. to Storm, Dingelstedt, Kürnberger and Mörike.

Most recently Duboc lived in the Strehlen district on the left Elbe at Gustav-Adolf- Strasse 12. He died in Dresden in 1910 and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof .

After its incorporation was in rechtselbischen district Wachwitz the Waldmüller street named after him. Not far from there he once had his residence in the Villa Bergnest at Wachwitzer Bergstrasse 27.

Fonts (selection)

  • Beethoven . Biographical sketch . In: Illustrated family book for entertainment & instruction in domestic circles , ed. from Österreichischer Lloyd, Trieste, Volume 7 (1857)
  • Hiking studies. Italy, Greece and at home . Theodor Thomas, Leipzig 1861
  • A visit to Victor Hugo . In: The Gazebo . Issue 26, 1867, pp. 408-410 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • From the memoir of a princess' daughter . CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1883
  • Sounds from abroad . H. Haessel , Leipzig 1893
  • It is not good for man to be alone . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Volume 10. 2nd edition. Berlin [1910], pp. 203-295. In: Thomas Weitin (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz 2016 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )

Web links

Wikisource: Charles Edouard Duboc  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Busch mentions Duboc in his foreword on page XXXIV; archive.org .
  2. ↑ death survey . In: Dresden history sheets. Vol. 19, No. 3, 1910, ZDB -ID 532551-1 , p. 104.
personal data
SURNAME Duboc, Charles Edouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldmüller, Robert (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1910
Place of death Dresden