Christian August Vulpius

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Christian August Vulpius
Memorial plaque on the house at Luthergasse 5 in Weimar
Christian August Vulpius grave cross on the historical cemetery in Weimar

Christian August Vulpius , also Anshelmo Mercello Thuring and Tirso de Milano (born January 23, 1762 in Weimar , † June 26, 1827 in Weimar) was a German writer .

Life

Vulpius was the oldest child of the former royal Saxon copist Johann Friedrich Vulpius and his wife Margarethe, née Riehl. When his sister Christiane married Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1806 , he became his brother-in-law.

Vulpius completed his school days at the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar . He then matriculated for a law degree at the University of Jena. He later moved to Erlangen with the same subject. The first publications date from this time, some of which Goethe already assisted him with in an advisory capacity.

With Goethe's support, the Leipzig bookseller Georg Joachim Göschen took on Vulpius in autumn 1789 ; he hired him as a secretary. Vulpius later worked at the theater in Weimar as a librettist and editor for Bellomo and Goethe. In 1797 he got a permanent job as registrar of the library in Weimar; here too, presumably, Goethe acted as mediator. In 1800 he was promoted to library secretary.

On 18th May 1801 Vulpius married Helene de Ahna (1780 to 1857). With her he had two sons: Rinaldo (1802–1874) and Felix (1814–1895). In 1803 the University of Jena awarded him the title of Dr.phil. Two years later he was promoted to full librarianship and was also given the post of coin inspector. He was given the title of Grand Ducal Council in 1816. In the same year he was elected Knight of the White Falcon Order .

Together with his son Rinaldo, he took part in the first Wartburg Festival in 1817 .

In 1824, after a stroke, Vulpius could only work to a very limited extent. He had himself retired. After a second stroke in February 1827, he was bedridden.

Vulpius is buried in the historical cemetery in Weimar .

Vulpius' fame is based almost entirely on his robber novel Rinaldo Rinaldini, the robber chief . This trivial novel met the taste of the audience and saw many editions and imitations. Vulpius wrote some sequels. In 1927, Luciano Albertini played the lead role in the first film adaptation of the novel, directed by Max Obal . In 1968, the successful evening TV series Rinaldo Rinaldini was broadcast on ARD with Fred Williams in the lead role.

Christian August Vulpius

Works

  • The veil. 1789. online
  • Real and clear description of the Bastille from its origins to its destruction, together with some related anecdotes. Frankfurt / Leipzig, 1789
  • Gallery of gallant ladies. Monday, Regensburg 1790–1791. 3 volumes Vol. 3 online
  • Sketches from the life of gallant ladies. A contribution to the knowledge of female characters, customs, feelings, and tricks of the past centuries. Monday, Regensburg 1789–1791. 4 volumes Volume 1 online , Volume 2 , Volume 3 Volume 4
  • Adventures, opinions and rascals of gallant men. A side piece to the sketches from the lives of gallant ladies. Monday, Regensburg 1791. online
  • The Magic Flute. An opera in three acts. Johann Samuel Heinsius, Leipzig 1794.
  • Blanka from Burgundy. (1795) online
  • Romantic leaves. (1798) online
  • Rinaldo Rinaldini, the robber chief . Leipzig 1801. Vol.1 online , Vol.2 , Vol.3
  • Ferrandino. Continuation of the story of the robber-captain Rinaldini by the author. Gräff, Leipzig 1800–1801 ( Rinaldo Rinaldini. 10th - 18th book). Vol.1-3 , Vol.4-6 , Vol.7-9
  • Sitah Mani, or Karl XII Bey Bender. (1809) online
  • Curiosities of the physical-literary-artistic-historical past and present. 10 volumes (1811–1823) Volume 1 online , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 4 , Volume 5 , Volume 6 , Volume 7 , Volume 8 , Volume 9 , Volume 10
  • Historical curiosities. Gleditsch, Leipzig 1814.
  • The prehistory, or history, poetry, art and literature of the prehistoric and middle ages. Keyser, Erfurt 1817-1821. 4 volumes. Volume 1 online , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 4
  • Brief overview of the history of the Tautenburg taverns. Erfurt, Keyser, 1820.
  • Truthina, the miracle girl of the mountains. In: Thuringian legends and folk tales. First volume. Erfurt 1822 ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
  • Concise dictionary of the mythology of the German, related, neighboring and Nordic peoples. Wilhelm Lauffer, Leipzig 1826. online
  • Glossary for the Eighteenth Century. With an afterword ed. by Alexander Košenina; Wehrhahn, Laatzen 2003, ISBN 3-932324-64-1 .

literature

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Christian August Vulpius: Circe. Opera with the music of Pasquale Anfossi. Edited by Waltraud Maierhofer. Translation and editing of the Italian libretto for the Weimar Theater. Parallel printing according to the manuscripts. Wehrhahn, Hannover 2007, ISBN 978-3-86525-013-1 .
  • Max MendheimVulpius, Christian August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 379-381.
  • Alexander Košenina (Ed.): Other Classics - The Work of Christian August Vulpius (1762-1827) . Hanover 2012.
  • Otto Lerche: Goethe and the Weimar Library. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1968.
  • Roberto Simanowski: The management of the adventure. Mass culture around 1800 using the example of Christian August Vulpius . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-20574-0 . (Not evaluated; online )
  • Christian August Vulpius: A Correspondence on the Cultural History of Goethe's Time. 2 vols., Ed. by Andreas Meier, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-017773-0 .
  • Effi Biedrzynski : Goethe's Weimar. The lexicon of people and scenes. Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1992, p. 464 f. ISBN 3-7608-1064-0 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gertrud Ranft: Historical gravesites: From Weimar's classical time (= Weimar writings on local history and natural history volume 35), Weimar 1979, p. 76 f.