Eduard Grisebach

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Eduard Grisebach, portrait by Max Liebermann, 1893
Bookplate Eduard Grisebach

Eduard Grisebach (born October 9, 1845 in Göttingen , † March 22, 1906 in Charlottenburg near Berlin) was a German diplomat , writer , literary scholar and bibliophile .

Life

He was the son of the botanist August Grisebach . After studying law in Berlin and Leipzig, Grisebach received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1867 and then became a trainee lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Berlin. In 1870/71 he took part in the war against France and entered the diplomatic service after the peace agreement. After working for the embassies in Rome (1872) and Constantinople (1873), he became chancellor of the German consulate in Smyrna in 1875 and vice-consul in Jassy in 1876 . After working as consul in Bucharest (1880) and Saint Petersburg (1881), he was transferred to Madrid and in 1886 to Port-au-Prince . In 1889 he retired and lived in Charlottenburg near Berlin as a bibliophile collector, literary historian and private scholar. His grave is in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery in field G3.

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As a lyric poet he emerged as early as 1869 with poems ( Der neue Tanhäuser and 1875 Tanhäuser in Rome ), which aroused partly rejection and partly admiration because of their sensual and lively design. He edited editions of texts by Lichtenberg , Waiblinger , Kleist , ETA Hoffmann , Grabbe and Bürger . He published summarizing studies of the history of literature under the titles Die deutsche Literatur seit 1770 and Das Goethische Zeitalter der Deutschenographie . Grisebach has done pioneering work in Schopenhauer research (see “Editing”). He has enriched bibliophilia with his two-volume catalog of world literature by a bibliophile and the catalog of books by a bibliophile .

After Grisebach's death, his library - around 3,200 titles - was “acquired by the Wiesbaden antiquarian Heinrich Staadt for M 45,000 and sold to Walter von Brüning ; from his possession it was auctioned off by [Martin] Breslauer in 1930. ”The auction took place in Berlin from April 29 to May 1, 1930, the auction catalog comprised 1233 items. Martin Breslauer introduced the catalog with a foreword by Eduard Grisebach as a collector .

Works (selection)

  • The new Tanhäuser . Reichardt & Zander, Berlin 1869
  • Tanhäuser in Rome . Rosner, Vienna 1875
  • German literature 1770-1870 . Contributions to their history using handwritten sources. Rosner, Vienna 1876
  • The journey of the novella about the faithless widow through world literature . Lehmann, Berlin 1886
  • The Goethe Age of German Poetry. With unprinted letters from Wilhelm Heinse and Clemens Brentano . Engelmann, Leipzig 1891
  • Catalog of books by a German bibliophile . With literary and bibliographical notes. Drugulin, Leipzig 1894. Supplement and Name Register 1895
  • World literature catalog of a bibliophile with literary and bibliographical notes . Hofmann, Berlin 1898. Supplementary volume 1900

Editing (selection)

  • Heinrich von Kleist "Complete Works" in two volumes ; edited by Eduard Griesebach, Ph.Reclam jun, Leipzig; no year [1883]
  • Kin-ku-ki-kuan . Chinese short story book. German by Eduard Grisebach. Lehmann, Berlin 1887
  • Edita and Inedita Schopenhaueriana . A Schopenhauer bibliography, as well as marginal writings and letters from Arthur Schopenhauer with portrait, coat of arms and facs. the master's handwriting. For his centenary birthday. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1888
  • Arthur Schopenhauer : All works in six volumes . Reclam, Leipzig 1891–1895
  • Wilhelm Waiblinger: Poems from Italy . Based on the first prints obtained by the poet himself, as well as from the handwritten estate. 2 volumes. Reclam, Leipzig 1893–1895
  • Gottfried August Bürger's works . With a biographical introduction and a bibliographical appendix. 5., presumably u. verb. Ed. Grote, Berlin 1894
  • Christian Dietrich Grabbe's complete works in 4 volumes . With text-critical appendices and the biography of the poet. Behr, Berlin 1902
  • ETA Hoffmann's complete works in fifteen volumes . Hesse, Leipzig 1905. (First in 1900; in 1905 the new edition, probably about the musical writings, appeared)

literature

  • Hans Henning : Eduard Grisebach in his life and work . On his 60th birthday on October 9, 1905. Hofmann, Berlin 1905
  • Gottfried Müller: Eduard Grisebach's literary activity . A bibliographical attempt. Deffner, Wiesbaden 1907
  • Hans von Müller : Eduard Grisebach . Edmund Meyer, Berlin 1910
  • Martin Breslauer: Eduard Grisebach's correspondence with his publisher L. Rosner in Vienna . Hermann, Berlin 1924
  • Alfred Klement von Treldewehr: Eduard Grisebach Bibliography . War, Vienna 1955
  • Martin Glaubrecht:  Grisebach, Eduard Anton Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 98 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X .
  • Thomas Reinecke: Eduard Grisebach (1845–1906). A bibliophile world literature collector. In: Marginalien Heft 224 (2017/1), pp. 26–43.
  • Thomas Reinecke: Eduard Grisebach in Göttingen (1845–1868) . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 65 (2017), pp. 109–129.

Auction catalog

  • The library of the poet Eduard Grisebach: as listed in the "Catalog of a German Bibliophile" and in the "World Literature Catalog" ... [later owner: Walter von Brüning] also: Grisebach's Schopenhauer Collection ..., as well as the original artwork. .. by Gerhart Hauptmanns ... The colorful book; 29./30. April u. May 1, 1930 in the Hotel Kaiserhof, Berlin. Berlin 1930
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Web links

Commons : Eduard Grisebach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Eduard Grisebach  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland torture: German poet and Germanist libraries. A critical bibliography of their catalogs. Eggert, Stuttgart 1975, p. 80.
  2. ^ Reprinted in: Bücher Collector Antiquare. From German auction catalogs . Selected u. introduced by Rudolph Adolph. Society of Bibliophiles, 1971, pp. 201-206.
personal data
SURNAME Grisebach, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, writer, literary scholar and bibliophile
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1906
Place of death Charlottenburg