Christian Brentano
Christian Franz Damian Friedrich Brentano (born January 24, 1784 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 27, 1851 there ) was a Catholic religious writer and publicist .
Life
He was the sixth child of the wealthy Frankfurt merchant and dignitary Peter Anton Brentano from the house of Brentano di Tremezzo and his second wife Maximiliane von La Roche , daughter of the Electorate Chancellor Georg von Lichtenfels and the writer Sophie von La Roche . His godfather was the Trier choir bishop Christian Franz von Hacke , a friend of grandmother Sophie von La Roche.
He is brother u. a. by Georg and Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim , half-brother of Franz Dominicus Brentano .
From 1791 to 1793 he attended grammar school in Tauberbischofsheim . After the death of his mother on November 19, 1793 in Frankfurt am Main, his father moved to the residential city of Koblenz of Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony and withdrew from his trading house in Frankfurt. The children were brought up by various relatives. Frequent changes of school and location shaped his childhood. After beginning and breaking off a commercial apprenticeship in Hamburg , he began studying medicine in Marburg in 1803 , but soon moved to Jena . He did not take an exam.
From 1808 to 1815 he was the administrator of the Bukowan estate in Bohemia, which his family owned. Under the impression of an encounter with Johann Nepomukringenis, he became a strictly dogmatic Catholic from 1816 and made a general confession on his birthday in 1817 in order to become a clergyman. In the summer he traveled with his brother Clemens Brentano to Dülmen to see the then famous mystic Anna Katharina Emmerick . After a year in Lucerne , he moved to Rome in 1823 , where he moved in the circle of the Nazarenes . In 1835 he married Emilie Brentano , née Genger, in Nice , one of the two directors of the girls' school in the former Marienberg monastery in Boppard , of which he had been managing director since 1830.
He closed the school in 1837 and moved to Aschaffenburg . His brother Clemens Brentano died here in his house on July 28, 1842, who appointed him as a universal heir. His wife Emilie Brentano in particular secured the inheritance and in 1852, together with Josef Merkel, published the collected writings as the first complete edition of Clemens Brentano's works.
He had eight children, three of whom were only a few weeks or months old. Two of his sons were Franz Brentano (1838-1917), philosopher and Lujo Brentano (1844-1931), economist, leader of the Kathedersozialisten and co-founder of the Verein für Sozialpolitik .
Christian Brentano found his final resting place in the Aschaffenburg old town cemetery.
literature
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger : Brentanos Poetik (Diss. Erlangen 1955). Edited by Kurt May and Walter Höllerer. (= Literature as art ). Hanser, Munich 1961
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
- Rochus von Liliencron : Brentano, Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 309 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Brentano in the catalog of the German National Library
- Last resting place in the Aschaffenburg old town cemetery
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historisches Jahrbuch , Volume 88, Part 2, p. 432, Alber Verlag, 1968; (Detail scan)
- ↑ cited in Diss. Enzensberger, p. 155: Clemens Brentanos Gesammelte Schriften. Published by Christian Brentano. Frankfurt am Main 1852/55. IX volumes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brentano, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brentano, Christian Franz Damian Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1784 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1851 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |