Christian Nicolai Ludwig Feldmann

Christian Nicolai Ludwig Feldmann (born November 23, 1782 in Glückstadt ; died January 13, 1849 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer , private scholar and writer .

Life

Born in Gluckstadt, he first attended the local "Gelehrtenschule" before then, first in Kiel and then in Leipzig , the law studied. In 1803 he gave up his studies in order to live with his sick father at the request of his sick father. He now mainly devoted himself to writing.

In 1814 he married Jeanette Margarethe Caroline b. Hövlein, the divorced wife of Captain Carl Wilhelm August Kellermann, daughter of a brewery owner from Kassel. He lived with her in Hoya in 1815, in 1816 he moved to Celle , in 1818 he lived in Hamburg-Wandsbek , in 1820 in Gotha , in 1823 he moved back to Glückstadt on the occasion of the death of his mother. After the death of his wife on May 26, 1826 in Glückstadt, he married her sister, Claudine Henriette Pfiligheim, born on September 30, 1827. Hövlein and moved to Kassel with her . Now living in Kassel, he was among other things editor of the political newspaper Der Verfassungsfreund .

Here he played a major role in the "Hessian constitutional struggles", which forced him to move back to Kiel in 1833, where he lived from then on. In Kiel he continued to work as a literary artist. In 1839 he published the book Der Symbolzwang , in which he dealt with the ecclesiastical, political and moral consequences of a possible lifting of the obligation on the symbolic books of the Protestants.

As a political person he made numerous acquaintances in the course of his eventful life and so he found himself in the midst of the turmoil that ultimately led to the events of 1848/49. Among other things, the liberal Sylvester Jordan (1792–1861) was one of his friends. In the spring of 1848 his health was very poor, so that he was unable to attend the dramatic events immediately. He died in Kiel on January 13, 1849.

literature

• Lexicon of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829–1866
• New necrology of the Germans, 27th year, 1849
• Chr. Feldmann: The symbol compulsion, Kiel 1839