Christian August Fischer

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Christian August Fischer (born August 29, 1771 in Leipzig , † April 14, 1829 in Mainz ) was a German writer . He used the pseudonyms Felix von Fröhlichsheim and Christian Althing , among others .

Life

Fischer studied law in Leipzig from 1788 to 1792 . After traveling through Europe for several years, he settled in Dresden as a private scholar in 1799 . In 1803 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1804 he became a professor of cultural history and beautiful literature in Würzburg .

Before 1800, Fischer was also in Constantinople . In his volume of memoirs, Hyacinthen in mein Kerker, published in 1824, he dedicated the chapter The Epicureans at Constantinople to his stay in Turkey . Fischer had been living with the German writer and women's rights activist Caroline Auguste Fischer from around 1801 , with whom he had a son since 1803. The marriage entered into in 1808 was divorced after just eight months.

In 1821 Fischer published the pamphlet Katzensprung from Frankfurt am Main to Munich under the pseudonym Felix von Fröhlichsheim , which earned him the release of an academic teacher and three years imprisonment for insulting the Bavarian finance minister von Lerchenfeld . He processed his imprisonment literarily in the work Hyacinths in my dungeon .

reception

In Arno Schmidt's story Tina or about immortality , Fischer is the companion (next to Tina Halein ) who leads the first-person narrator through the poet's lysium.

Major works

  • Journey from Amsterdam via Madrid and Cadiz to Genoa in 1797 and 1798. Along with an appendix on traveling in Spain . Berlin: Johann Friedrich Unger 1799. French edition: Voyage en Espagne, aux années 1797 et 1798 (…). Transferred from Ch.Fr. Cramer. 2 volumes. Paris: Duchesne & Leriche 1801 (to IX). English edition: Travels in Spain in 1797 and 1798. London: TN Longman & O. Rees 1802.
  • Travel adventure. Edited by Christian August Fischer. 2 ribbons. Dresden: Heinrich Gerlach 1801. A second improved edition was published in Leipzig in 1805 by Heinrich Gräff. Also printed as Christian August Fischer's travel adventure in two volumes. Reutlingen: On commission at the II Mäcken'schen Buchhandlung 1802.
  • Painting of Valencia . Edited by Christian August Fischer. 2 volumes. Leipzig: Heinrich Gräff 1803. An English translation, transferred by Frederic Shoberl, was published in 1809 by Henry Colburn in London under the title A Picture of Valencia, Taken on the Spot (…).
  • (as Christian Althing :) Hannchen's back and forth , along with the story of three wedding nights. 3 volumes. Dresden 1800. Published in 1807 as Erotic Writings. First volume: Hannchen's affections and the story of three wedding nights. Second embellished edition. With a copper. Leipzig: Commissioned by Heinrich Gräff in 1807. The second and third volumes were only printed in the same year under the title Hannchen's additions and hearts, along with the story of three wedding nights .
  • ⟨As Felix von Fröhlichsheim:⟩ a stone's throw from Frankfurt aM to Munich in autumn 1820. Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch 1821.
  • Hyacinths grown in my dungeon . Frankfurt am Main: JD Sauerländer 1824.
  • About colleges and college notebooks . Or tried and tested instructions for the most appropriate listening and rewriting of both the academic and the higher grammar school lectures . Bonn: T. Habicht 1826. ( Digitized and full text in the German text archive )

literature

  • Peter Höpgen: Christian August Fischer. Scientist - fabulist - entertaining writer. Investigations into the work of a poeta minor. Trier 1998.
  • Josef Huerkamp, ​​Georg Meyer-Thurow: "The loneliness, the nature and my pen, this is my only pleasure". Christian August Fischer (1771-1829). Writer and university professor. Bielefeld 2001.
    • Collective review by Peter Höpgen. In: active word. Vol. 52, 2002, p. 154 f.
  • Berta Raposo, Eckhard Weber: Un viajero alemán en Valencia hacia 1800. Christian August Fischer. In: Berta Raposo Fernández, Ingrid García Wistädt (ed.): Viajes y viajeros entre ficción y realidad. Alemania-España. Valencia 2009, ISBN 978-84-370-7319-4 , pp. 61-67.

Web links

Wikisource: Christian August Fischer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 80.
  2. ↑ a b General Real Encyclopedia for the educated stands Conversations Lexicon. Ninth original edition, volume 5 . Brockhaus publishing house, 1844
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Christian August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fröhlichsheim, Felix von (pseudonym); Althing, Christian (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1829
Place of death Mainz