Edmund by Harold

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Edmund Harold , also Edmond Baron de Harold (* 1737 in Limerick , Kingdom Ireland ; † 28. June 1808 in Dusseldorf ), was an Irish-German writer and kurpfalz-Bavarian officer .

Live and act

Harold was born in the Palatinate community in Limerick , but soon left his Irish homeland to settle on the Lower Rhine. He worked as the Electoral Palatinate-Bavarian Chamberlain and officer and became a member of the Electoral Palatinate-German Society . In 1763, Elector Karl Theodor of the Palatinate awarded him the title of “Elector Truchseß ”. As an officer, he made it to the position of Colonel Commander of the Elector General Graf Zedwitzschen 7th Fusilier Regiment , and later to Major General of the Infantry of the Electorate of Bavaria. His first marriage was to Maria Magdalene, née Schmitz, and his second marriage to Maria Theresia, née von Hagen, daughter of a privy councilor from the Electorate of Bavaria.

On the one hand, Harold submitted translations of James Macpherson's Ossian poems, but he also wrote himself in pseudo-Ossian style. He thus had an influence on the Celtomania that spread in the 18th and 19th centuries . He was in contact with Johann Gottfried Herder and, through a letter dated December 5, 1775, raised doubts about the authenticity of Macpherson's poems. Harold's Poems of Ossian , published in 1787, was dedicated to the Irish politician Henry Grattan . Franz Schubert set songs to Ossian texts based on Harold's models . Haroldstraße is named after him in Düsseldorf, where Harold lives .

Editions

  • James Macpherson, Edmund von Harold: The Poems of Ossian's, an Ancient Celtic Hero and Bard . Düsseldorf 1775 ( digitized version / table of contents ).
  • Ossian's poems by the Celtic hero and bard translated from English and partly from the original Celtic language by Freyherrn von Harold. Zweyte improved the circulation with many previously undiscovered poems . Mannheim, published by the publishers of the foreign beautiful spirits, 1782. 242 pp.
  • Poems of Ossian lately discover'd by Edmond Baron de Harold, Colonel Commander of the Regiment of Konigsfeld, Gentleman of the bed Chamber of his Most SH the Elector Palatin, member of the German Society of Manheim, of the Royal antiquarian Society of London, and of the Academy of Dusseldorf . Dusseldorf, by John Cretien Dænzer, 1787.
  • Newly-discovered poems by Ossian . Dänzer, Düsseldorf 1798 ( digitized version ).
  • Sulmora, daughter of Cuthullin. A drama in 5 acts . Dänzer, Düsseldorf 1802 ( digitized ).

literature

  • Wolf Gerhard Schmidt: "Homer of the North" and "Mother of Romanticism": James Macpherson's Ossian, contemporary discourses and the early phase of German reception . Berlin 2003.
  • Diarmaid Ó Catháin: General Baron Edmund Harold (1737–1808): A 'Celtic' Writer in Germany . In: Studia Hibernica , No. 30 (1998/1999), pp. 119–153 ( preview ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His electoral examination of the Palatinate, etc. etc. Court and state calendar for the year 1781 . Munich 1781, p. 72 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Alexander Gillies: Herder and Ossian (= New Research. Work on the intellectual history of the Germanic and Romanic peoples, Volume 19) Junker and Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1933, p. 97.
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1871 . Justus Perthes, Gotha 1871, p. 263 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Ursula Hartwieg: Reprint or Enlightenment? The distribution of English literature by the Anton von Kleins publishing house at the end of the 18th century (= Archive for the History of Books, Volume 50), Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-7657-2178-6 , p. 89 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Harold, Edmund of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harold, Edmond Baron de; Harold, Edmund Baron of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH limerick
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1808
Place of death Dusseldorf