Ernst Heusinger

Ernst Heinrich Christian Heusinger (born August 10, 1792 in Eisenach , † January 25, 1884 in Braunschweig ), pseudonym Eduard Heusinger , was a German writer , editor and collector of sagas .

Life

Heusinger's father, the doctor Johann Heinrich Christian Heusinger, died before he was born, and his mother remarried in 1793. The family moved to Freudenberg, the young Heusinger's guardian was the councilor Wolf. From 1807 he attended high school in his native Eisenach, from 1808 to 1816 he was a soldier and served in Spain , France and Italy . After his release he first returned to Freudenberg and settled in Bevern as a farmer in 1817 . As a result, he switched to civil service and held posts as customs and border passport administrator until his retirement in 1836. In 1836 he moved to Sallmannshausen , rented a farm there and started writing. In 1846 he went to Braunschweig as a freelance writer and published his writings under the pseudonym Eduard Heusinger . He lived in Braunschweig until his death in 1884.

Heusinger was married twice. After divorcing his first wife, with whom he had two children, in 1836, he remarried in 1848. From this marriage a child was born.

Services

Heusinger's work was shaped by the exaggerated, unreal idealization of a man who was disappointed in his life. He earned services to the collection of legends from the Saxon and Thuringian area, they are today an important national property from this time. In addition, he wrote writings with an autobiographical background, for example about his time as a soldier, as well as contemporary writings about his adopted home Braunschweig.

Fonts

• Views, observations and experiences gathered during the campaigns in Valencia and Catalonia in 1813 and 1814. GCE Meyer, Braunschweig, 1825.
• Legends from the Werrathale. Bärecke, Eisenach 1841. Reprint of the 1941 edition. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2009, ISBN 978-3-936030-23-5 .
• This side and the other side of the ocean. G. Rademacher, Braunschweig, 1846.
• Braunschweig in its participation in the German popular uprising. 1849.
• Forty-eight years. Drawings and sketches from a constitutional officer's portfolio. Hotop publishing house, Kassel, 1852.
• Legend and history from the Saxon countries. Kollmann, Leipzig, 1856.
• History of the royal seat of Braunschweig from 1806 to 1831: With special consideration of the Westphalian court and state relations. 1861.
• Thanks to a king. Rötschke, Leipzig, 1869.

literature

• Eberhard Rohse : Literary “March achievements”. The revolution of 1848 in the works of Brunswick writers. In: Herbert Blume and Eberhard Rohse (eds.): Literature in Braunschweig between the pre-March period and the early days. Stadtarchiv and Stadtbibliothek Braunschweig, Braunschweig 1993 (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke. Volume 33. Of the whole series, Volume 84), ISBN 3-87884-037-3 , pp. 55–110, esp. Pp. 85–91.
• Eberhard Rohse: Heusinger, Ernst Heinrich Christian. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 273 .
• Urania Culture and Education Association Gotha e. V. (Ed.): Eisenach personalities . A biographical lexicon. RhinoVerlag, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-932081-45-5 , p. 65 f .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Heusinger in the catalog of the German National Library