Eduard Boas

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Eduard Boas (born January 18, 1815 in Landsberg an der Warthe ; died June 12, 1853 there ) was a German writer and literary historian.

Life

Boas was first a businessman, later turned to literature and literary studies. He undertook numerous extended trips to Scandinavia and the Mediterranean countries, which also provided him with material for his books, for example for In Scandinavia. Northern Lights (1845). He also used the form of the (fictional) travel report, for example in his satirical Reiselüthen trilogy (1834 and 1836), in which he " parodies almost all clichés and topoi of utopias and fantastic journeys [...] with mild, pre-March criticism [ ...], with satire for its own sake in the foreground. In this case one could also speak of an independent 'satirical method'. ”In the Moon Novella (1836) he makes fun of the success of the Great Moon Hoax, staged by the American journalist Richard Adams Locke .

Boas lived in Berlin and Dresden and in his hometown, where he died in 1853 at the age of 38. The planned 12-volume edition remained a fragment. 5 volumes appeared from 1846 to 1848.

bibliography

Dramatic writings, Leipzig 1848 (title page)
  • Travel flowers from the upper world (Grimma 1834, 2 vols.)
  • Travel flowers from the world of stars and the moon novella (Altenburg 1936)
  • Travel Flowers from the Underworld: Experiences in Wineta. Saturnalia and Olympia. Neptunia and Plutonia. Medicinia. Homeopathia and Minerva. Realia and Idealia. Liberalia and St. Simonia. Demagogia and Cynopolis (Altenburg 1836, 2 vol.)
  • German poets (novellas; Leipzig 1837)
  • Name symbolism in German poetry (Landsberg ad Warthe 1840)
  • Sayings and songs of a Nordic Braminen (Leipzig 1842)
  • French Heir to the Throne: A Vision (Stuttgart 1844)
  • Pepita: Italian Idyll (Leipzig 1844)
  • In Scandinavia. Northern lights (travel description; Leipzig 1845)
  • The war commissioner Pipitz's trip to Italy (comic novel; Stuttgart 1841, 4 vols.)
  • Dramatic writings (Leipzig 1848)
  • Schiller and Goethe in the Xenienkampf (Stuttgart 1851, 2 parts)
  • Schiller's youth (posthumously edited by Wendelin von Maltzahn ; Hanover 1856, 2 vols.)
  • Schiller's and Goethe's Xenien manuscript (posthumously edited by Wendelin von Maltzahn; Berlin 1856)
as editor
  • Supplements to all of Schiller's works (Stuttgart 1838–40, 3 vols .; new edition 1853)
  • Supplements to all of Goethe's works (Leipzig 1841, 3 vols.)
  • The German Flag: An Album (Leipzig 1846)
Work edition
  • Writings (Leipzig 1846–48, 5 vols.)

literature

  • Ernst Kelchner :  Boas, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 757.
  • Christian Schwarz: Boas, Eduard. In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon Vol. 2, p. 35
  • Roswitha Wollkopf: The Xenienkampf and the Struggle for the Xenienmanuscript. Subsequent to the 150th anniversary of the death of the writer and literary scholar Eduard Boas. In: Germanic notes and reviews 35 (2004), pp. 3–6.
  • Boas, Eduard. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 3: Birk – Braun. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22683-7 , pp. 228-232.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Nagl: Science Fiction in Germany: Investigations on the genesis, sociography and ideology of fantastic mass literature. Tübingen Association for Folklore 1972, p. 53, fn. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Boas, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg on the Warta
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1853
Place of death Landsberg on the Warta