Daniel Runge (poet)
Johann Daniel Runge , sometimes wrongly Daniel Johann Runge (born November 29, 1767 in Wolgast , † March 12, 1856 in Hamburg ) was a German merchant and Hamburg shipowner who became known as a poet and editor.
Life
Daniel Runge was the eldest son and fourth of eleven children of the Wolgast merchant and ship owner Daniel Nicolaus Runge (1737-1825) and the blacksmith's daughter Magdalena Dorothea, née. Müller (1737-1818), born. He was the oldest brother of the famous painter Philipp Otto Runge .
He was trained as a businessman in Lübeck and Hamburg. With Friedrich August Hülsbeck (1766-1834) he founded in 1793, the commission and forwarding action "Hülsbeck, Runge & Co." were more partner John Michael Speckter and Johann Friedrich Wülffing who also belonged to his rationalistic, Enlightenment friends how Friedrich Christoph Perthes , Johann Heinrich Besser , Heinrich Joachim Herterich and Gerdt Hardorff . After the bankruptcy of the company in 1807, he was self-employed commercially until 1821. From 1807 he was the owner of the brig Schwan and from 1816 of the ship The Hope .
Daniel Runge was editor of the journal Der Nieder-Elbische Merkur from 1815 . In 1819 he took over the editing of the list of the Börsenhalle .
He died completely blind.
Runge had been married to the Hamburg pastor's daughter Beata Katharina Wilhelmine Behrmann (1783–1862) since 1822. The marriage remained childless.
Several portraits of his brother Daniel Runge by Philipp Otto Runge are known.
literature
- Peter Betthausen : Philipp Otto Runge. Letters and writings. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1981.
Works
- Songbook dedicated to the Hanseatic Legion (1813)
- Patriotic Songs According to Well-Known Sages (1815)
- Hamburgischer Liederkranz (1838)
- were surviving writings of his brother Philipp Otto Runge out (2 vols., Hamburg, 1840-41).
Web links
- Literature by and about Daniel Runge in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Daniel Runge in the state bibliography MV
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SURNAME | Runge, Daniel |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Runge, Johann Daniel (full name); Runge, Daniel Johann (wrong name form) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant, shipowner and poet |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1767 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolgast |
DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1856 |
Place of death | Hamburg |