Christoph Otto von Schönaich

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Baron Christoph Otto von Schönaich (born June 11, 1725 in Amtitz near Guben ; † November 15, 1807 there ) was a German writer .

Life

In 1751 he sent his epic in twelve songs, "Hermann or The Liberated Germany", to Johann Christoph Gottsched , whereupon it was printed and subsequently saw several editions. In 1754 he published the polemical text "Neological Dictionary or Aesthetics in a Nut". Schönaich was unmarried. He is also the author of the heroic epic written in Trochaic tetrameters: "Heinrich the Vogler or the Muted Huns" in 1757. After he was blind in 1777, he spent the evening of his life on his father's country estate.

meaning

Gottsched had honored Schönaich with a laurel wreath in 1752, a process that caused ridicule among his opponents for a long time. In terms of literary history, Schönaich did not survive the decline of the Gottsched School. However, his dramas have been rediscovered by German studies for some time and Schönaich is "undoubtedly one of the most important playwrights of the [17] 50s".

literature

  • Christoph Otto von Schönaich: The whole aesthetic in one nut, or neological dictionary. [Hebold], [Breslau] 1754. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
  • Otto Ladendorf : Christoph Otto Freiherr von Schönaich. Contributions to the knowledge of his life and his writings. Univ. Diss., Leipzig 1897.
  • Hugo Jentsch :  Schönaich, Otto Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 253 f.
  • Hans Peter Buohler: [Art.] Schönaich, Christoph Otto Frhr. from. In: Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. Lim. by Walther Killy, ed. by Wilhelm Kühlmann (among others). Second, completely revised. Edition. Volume 10 (Ros-Sel). Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-022042-1 , pp. 523-524.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Lukas: Anthropology and Theodicy. Studies on moral discourse in the German-language drama of the Enlightenment (approx. 1730 to 1770). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005. p. 234. (online)
personal data
SURNAME Schönaich, Christoph Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH Office at Guben
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1807
Place of death Office at Guben