Eduard Beurmann

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Ludwig Georg Eduard Beurmann (born April 14, 1804 in Bremen , † February 16, 1883 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer , writer , journalist and editor .

Life

Born in Bremen as the son of a businessman, he studied law in Göttingen from 1823 to 1826 . He was married to the actress Marie Therese Pauline , née Böttiger (born 1808). However, his marriage to Therese Böttiger caused him to lose his citizenship in Bremen. He could not raise the necessary money to acquire citizenship for his wife and now lost his money through the marriage. Without this, however, he had no opportunity to work as a lawyer in Bremen. After a few years as administrator in Bremen and Lübeck, he finally moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1832 and from then on devoted himself exclusively to writing.

His “Frankfurt Pictures” (1835) and “Sketches from the Hanseatic Cities” (1836) earned him high recognition. Due to the liberal tendency and the liberal tone of his writings, he was soon included in the environment of the young German literary movement.

In 1837 Beurmann published the "Frankfurter Telegraph" on behalf of Karl Gutzkow , which was renamed "Beurmann's Telegraph" in July of the same year. A few weeks earlier he published the book "Ludwig Börne as Character and in Literature", only three months after his death. It was immediately banned in Prussia. In this book Beurmann describes himself as a literary historiographer.

Book title page from: Eduard Beurmann: Ludwig Börne as a character and in literature , Karl Körner, Frankfurt a. M., 1837

From 1840 to 1862 he was an editor at the Frankfurter Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung and then at the French-language "Journal de Francfort" published in Frankfurt am Main. In 1863 Beurmann moved to Berlin and last lived as "Dr. jur. E. Beurmann" at Mittelstrasse 64. Eduard Beurmann was buried in the New Dorotheenstadt Cemetery . The tomb has not been preserved.

particularities

In the spring of 1836 Beurmann was recruited as Confident by the Mainz Information Office . On his behalf, he immediately traveled to Brussels and then in September to Paris , where he stayed until the end of December 1836. There he had direct contact with artists and writers such as Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Börne , about whom he then wrote so-called Confident Reports.

Works (selection)

  • Almanac of the German stage for the year 1835. Printed and published by JD Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1835.
  • Frankfurt Pictures. Printed and published by J. Kupferberg, Mainz 1835.
  • Sketches from the Hanseatic cities. Verlag von Friedrich König, Hanau 1836 ( digitized version )
  • A word to Doctor Oelrichs and Watermeyer, as an appendix to my sketches from the Hanseatic cities. Published by Friedrich König, Hanau 1836
  • Ludwig Börne as a character and in literature. Carl Körner, Frankfurt am Main, 1837
  • Familiar letters about Prussia's capital. 2 vols. Rieger, Stuttgart & Leipzig, 1837 (published anonymously)
  • Brussels and Paris. 3 vols. Theodor Fischer, Leipzig 1837
  • Germany and the Germans. 4 vols. Verlag von Johann Friedrich Hammerich, Altona 1838–1839
  • Communications from the life of a lawyer. Published by Wilhelm Küchler, Frankfurt am Main, 1838
  • About Afghanistan. Leske, Darmstadt, 1844

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Archives Bremen; Church records; 1804
  2. ↑ Lübeck City Archives; Civil register; 1829
  3. ^ Eduard Beurmann: A word to Doctors Oelrichs and Watermeyer, as an appendix to my sketches from the Hanseatic cities. Hanau 1836, p. 7 ff.
  4. ↑ Eduard Beurmann: Ludwig Börne as a character and in literature. 1837, p. 29
  5. ↑ Last entry in the Berlin address book, year 1883.

Secondary literature

  • General and universal lexicon, on all human knowledge, first volume. Publishing house by S. Pätz, Naumburg an der Lahn, 1869
  • Ernst Rowe: Stehely and Comp. in: Hans Delbrück (Ed.), Prussian Yearbooks, one hundred and seventeenth volume. Published by Georg Stilke, Berlin 1904.
  • Heinrich Hubert Houben: magazines of the young Germany, first and second part. In: Publications of the German Bibliographical Society. Bibliographical Repertory, Third and Fourth Volumes. B. Behr's Verlag, Berlin 1906

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personal data
SURNAME Beurmann, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beurmann, Ludwig Georg Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1883
Place of death Berlin