Christian Jakob Salice-Contessa

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Christian Jacob Salice-Contessa (born December 21, 1767 in Hirschberg ; † September 11, 1825 in Liebenthal near Hirschberg) was a Silesian wholesale merchant, local politician and romantic writer.

Life

Contessa came from a rich Italian patrician family who immigrated from Saló on Lake Como to what was then Austrian Silesia around 1690. His father was a canvas wholesaler in Hirschberg. Contessa attended the Jesuit high school in Breslau from 1782 to 1784 and then went to Hamburg for a commercial apprenticeship . In 1793 he took over the family business in Hirschberg. In 1797 he and his school friend Joseph von Zerboni di Sposetti formed a revolutionary secret society to fight corruption and promote virtue. Reported to Friedrich Wilhelm II , he received a prison sentence together with Zerboni, but was already in 1798 by Friedrich Wilhelm III. pardoned and dismissed. In 1812 he was actively involved in the preparations for the war of liberation . Around this time he bought the secularized Benedictine monastery and Gut Liebenthal not far from Hirschberg, which became a constant meeting place for the romantic group of Serapion brothers through the acquaintance of his younger brother Karl Wilhelm Salice-Contessa with Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann in 1814 . In this year, after many years as chairman of the city ​​council in Hirschberg, Contessa was appointed to the council of commerce . He died in 1825 on his Liebenthal estate and was buried in the collegiate church there. His widow sold the monastery to the town council in 1829, and later it became a Catholic girls' school.

In his work he often used fabrics from the Silesian legends of the Hirschberg area or motifs from history. His poetry was characterized by great emotionality.

Works

  • Hermann von Hartenstein. Scenes from the Middle Ages , 1793
  • Alfred , historical play, 1809
  • Dramatic Plays and Tales , 1 - 2, 1812 - 1814
  • The pleasure garden in the Giant Mountains , 1823

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SURNAME Salice-Contessa, Christian Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salice-Contessa, Christian Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Silesian wholesaler, local politician and romantic writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschberg
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1825
Place of death Liebenthal near Hirschberg