Christian Ludwig Liscow

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Christian Ludwig Liscow; Engraving by Pfenninger, 1789.

Christian Ludwig Liscow (born April 26, 1701 in Wittenburg ; † October 30, 1760 on Gut Berg before Eilenburg ) was a German diplomat and satirical writer during the Enlightenment . His polemics, which were primarily aimed at the “folly” of contemporary, living people, were controversial, especially since he never dared to approach great minds and also presented them anonymously.

Life

After Liscow had been taught by his father, Pastor Joachim Friedrich Liscow, he went to high school in Lüneburg . In 1718 he enrolled at the University of Rostock , presumably to study theology . Some time later he switched to Jena and to law . A further move to the University of Halle cannot yet be proven, but is considered likely.

In the years 1729 to 1734 Liscow had a job as private tutor for the cathedral dean Hans von Thienen in Lübeck . In 1734 he became private secretary at the Secret Council of Clausenheim in Hamburg, which was wealthy in Körchow , Mecklenburg . In the autumn of the following year he entered the service of Duke Karl Leopold of Mecklenburg as secret secretary of the legation . The Duke tried to gain recognition from the major European powers, which he received through one of Emperor Charles VI. imposed imperial execution (1717-1728) had been withdrawn. In April 1736 Liscow traveled from Wismar , the place of Karl Leopold's government in exile, to Paris as a negotiator to interest France in Duke Karl Leopold. Since Liscow failed with this mission, the Duke left his diplomats to fate.

Liscow came to Hamburg via Rotterdam only with the help of friends . There he lived with Friedrich von Hagedorn for some time . In 1738 he got a job as private secretary with the provost of the Preetz monastery in Holstein. In 1740 he was recruited by the Prussian envoy Freiherr Karl Ludolf von Danckelmann as private secretary to Frankfurt am Main. In July 1741 Liscow became private secretary to the Saxon Minister Count Heinrich von Brühl . This promoted him to Königl. Cabinet Secretary and member of the Council of War in 1745. In that year Liscow married the widow Johanna Buch, b. Mylius. With her he had two daughters and three sons.

At the end of 1749 Liscow was accused of conspiracy against the Count von Brühl, removed from his offices, temporarily imprisoned and expelled from Dresden in April 1750. He spent his twilight years on the Berg estate near Eilenburg , which belonged to his wife and where he died in 1760. Liscow was buried in the Marienkirche not far from his old age.

effect

Liscow made his literary debut in 1726 with a satire against the Rostock lawyer Professor Johann Manzel . His first texts had been ordered and paid for by Hamburg merchants; Liscow's brother, who was an editor at the Hamburg Correspondents , took care of their publication . Liscow's best-known work The Excellence and Necessity of the Wretched Scribents Thoroughly proven from 1736 represented the climax and also the end of his literary work. It was controversial, but almost forgotten during his lifetime. “Liscow went down in the annals of literary history as the representative of personal satire , as the first German satirist to not only vent his will to annihilate on fictional types (like his contemporary Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener , the representative of general satire), but uninhibitedly on living victims . ”This critical perspective was already taken up by the Herders Conversations-Lexikon , published between 1854 and 1857 , which Liscow attested to be considerable wit and the“ indisputably most beautiful German before Lessing ”. Also Meyers Encyclopedia lifts (in Volume 12 of 1908) Liscos stylistic brilliance produced that will not moved wrongly Lessing nearby. In fact, Liscow suggested Lessing, as did Lichtenberg and Jean Paul .

Liscow's campaign against the “pathos-prone” Halle rhetoric professor Johann Ernst Philippi , an opponent of Gottsched and Wolff's school philosophy, ended for the mocked in the asylum. The case illustrates the contrast between Liscow's biting “personal satire” and the comparatively “moderate” attacks by Rabener, who always refrained from personal slurs.

From 1998 to 2011, the Christian-Ludwig-Liscow-Gymnasium in Wittenburg in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was named after Liscow. With the establishment of the high school school center, the name was dropped after initial conservation efforts.

Works

  • Briontes the younger, or speech of praise, to the Hoch-Edelgebohrnen and Hoch-Gelahrten Mr., Mr. D. Johann Ernst Philippi . 1732 ( digitized version )
  • Collection of satirical and serious writings , Frankfurt / Main and Leipzig 1739 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive ), new edition (Ed. Carl Müchler ) in three volumes Berlin 1806, more recently Frankfurt / Main 1972
  • The excellence and necessity of the wretched scribes have been thoroughly demonstrated . 1734 ( full text in Google book search)
  • Excellence and Necessity of Wretched Scribes and Other Writings , ed. by Jürgen Manthey , Frankfurt / Main 1968

literature

  • Carl Gustav Helbig : Christian Ludwig Liscow , 1844
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Liscows Life. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology 10 (1845), pp. 97–179 ( full text )
  • Berthold Litzmann : Christian Ludwig Liscow in his literary career , Hamburg: L. Voss, 1883
  • Paul Richter: Rabener and Liscow , Dresden 1884
  • Thomas P. Saine: Christian Ludwig Liscow: The First German Swift , in: Lessing Yearbook IV, New York and London 1972, pages 122–156
  • Jürgen Brummack : Reason and Aggression. About the satirist Liscow , in: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (DVjs) number 49, 1975, special issue 18th century, pages 118-137
  • Christian Schwarz: Scoffers and scribes. Study of the strategy and structure of early enlightenment satire by Christian Ludwig Liscow , University of Würzburg 1976
  • Wolfgang Proß :  Liscow, Christian Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 682-684 ( digitized version ).
  • Alken Bruns: Christian Ludwig Liscows Lübeck satires . In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology (ZVLGA) 61 (1981), pp. 95–128 ( digitized version )
  • Markus Steinhardt: Possibilities of satire with Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener and Christian Ludwig Liscow , University of Munich 1999.
  • Hans-Joachim Böttcher : "Liscow, Christian Ludwig", in: Important historical personalities of the Dübener Heide, AMF - No. 237, 2012, p. 62.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gunter E. Grimm 1986 (PDF; 17 kB), accessed on January 2, 2012
  2. ↑ GCF Lisch 1858  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 2, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / portal.hsb.hs-wismar.de  
  3. ^ Registration of Christian Ludwig Liscow in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Benno Schirrmeister, taz of July 1, 2009 , accessed on January 2, 2012
  5. ^ Liscow , Herders Conversations-Lexikon. Freiburg im Breisgau 1856, Volume 4, pp. 6-7.
  6. ^ Meyers , accessed January 2, 2012
  7. ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia in the 19th edition, Volume 13 from 1990
  8. ↑ litde , accessed on January 2, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Liscow, Christian Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German satirist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1701
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1760
Place of death Gut Berg near Eilenburg