Eduard Meyen

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Maximilian Eduard Meyen (born March 5, 1812 in Berlin , † April 4, 1870 in Danzig ) was a German publicist and is one of the democratically -minded Young Hegelians .

Life

He studied in Berlin and Heidelberg . In 1835 he received his doctorate. phil. He belonged to the group of Young Hegelians ("Doctor Club"). In the years 1838 and 1839 he was editor of the literary newspaper in Berlin. In one of his pamphlets, he sharply criticized Heinrich Leo for having distanced himself from Hegel and for being accepted into the Prussian mansion by Friedrich Wilhelm IV .

He had already made the acquaintance of Arnold Ruge in 1838 . He was an editor for the magazine Athenaeum and was a correspondent for the Rheinische Zeitung . Meyen published two poems by Karl Marx in the short-lived literary journal Athenaeum . At the beginning of the 1840s he belonged to a left-wing group called The Free . Max Stirner and Bruno Bauer were among them . At the beginning of 1843 there was a dispute and break with Marx, also because of the position of the free. Meyen was also involved in the Centralverein for the welfare of the working classes . From 1844 he was a correspondent for the Trierschen Zeitung in Berlin.

In 1844 he had to serve a two-month prison term because he publicly cheered August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben . In 1847 he was arrested for the police banned poem The Silesian Weavers of Heinrich Heine had in public.

During the revolution of 1848 he was a member of the Central March Association . He helped prepare the second Democratic Congress and was also one of the delegates. In 1849 he worked for the Democratic Newspaper. Later he worked for the free trader Julius Faucher . With this he fled to England after the revolution.

Between 1858 and 1868 he worked as an editor for the Berlin Reform. Most recently he was editor of the Danziger Zeitung. Politically, he was initially close to the Progressive Party and later to the National Liberals.

Works

  • De Diana Taurica et Anaitide . Schad, Berolini 1835 (dissertatio inauguralis)
  • Goethe 's Faust. Wilhelm Ernst Weber , Goethe's Faust, clear illumination of both parts to facilitate understanding: Halle, bookstore of the orphanage, 1836. Heinrich Düntzer, Goethe's Faust presented in its unity and entirety against his opponents, along with hints about the idea and plan of Wilhelm Meister and two Appendices, about Byron 's Manfred and Lessing 's Doctor Faust: Cologne, Eisen, 1836. Christian Hermann Weisse , criticism and explanation of Goethe's Faust, along with an appendix on the moral assessment of Goethe's: Leipzig, Reichenbach, 1837. In: literary Newspaper. Schneider, Berlin Vol. 5, 1837, 23, pp. 429-432
  • Literary newspaper . Editor: Dr. Eduard Meyen. 5. Jg. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1838
  • Heinrich Leo - the dead pietist. A literary letter dedicated to all of Hegel's students . Otto Wigand , Leipzig, 1839 digitized
  • About Bülow-Cummerow . Prussia, its constitution, its administration, its relationship to Germany . Binder, Leipzig 1842
  • The democratic club in Berlin . Reichardt, Berlin 1848
  • Ed .: Reform . Fähndrich, Berlin 1848

literature

  • Heinrich Leo: The Hegelingen. Pieces of files and documents relating to the so-called denunciation of the eternal truth. 2nd with supplements possibly. Edition, Eduard Anton, Halle 1839. Digitized.
  • Heinz Pepperle, Irngrid Pepperle (Ed.): The Hegelian Left. Documents on philosophy and politics in the German Vormärz. Reclam, Leipzig 1985; Röderberg, Frankfurt am Main 1985. Bibliography, p. 936.
  • Wolfgang Bunzel: The most perfect union of science with life. Letters from Eduard Meyen to Arnold Ruge (1838–1841). In: Intersection of Romanticism. Text and source studies on 19th century literature. Festschrift for Sibylle von Steinsdorff. Edited by Wolfgang Bunzel. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1997 ISBN 3-484-10753-7 , pp. 143-203.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ronald Roggen: Restoration - battle cry and swear word. Freiburg (Switzerland), 1999 p. 206
  2. ^ Klaus Beckmann: What does an economist (s) do? Marx and some topoi in economics. In: Karl Marx's Communist Individualism. Tübingen, 2005 p. 101
  3. ↑ Martin Hundt (Ed.): The change of editorial letters for the Hallische, German and Franco-German yearbooks (1837-1844). Berlin, 2010 p. 145
  4. ↑ August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben: My life. Records and memories. Vol. 4 Hanover, 1868 p. 137
  5. ^ Karl Friedrich Köppen: Selected writings in two volumes. Vol. 2 Berlin, 2003 p. 96
  6. ^ Theodor Fontane: Works, writings and letters. 4th Department, Vol. V / 2 Munich, 1988 151, Marx, Karl / Engels, Friedrich: Correspondence January to August 1852 Berlin, 1987 p. 1091
personal data
SURNAME Meyen, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1870
Place of death Danzig