Eduard Schmidt-Weissenfels
Eduard Schmidt-Weißenfels (born September 1, 1833 in Berlin , † April 24, 1893 in Bolzano ) was a liberal German writer and politician .
Life
Schmidt-Weißenfels began his journalistic activity early, became secretary of the Prussian National Assembly in 1848 , then a member of the First Chamber of the Prussian Parliament, took part in the campaign in Schleswig-Holstein in 1850 and then went to Paris , where he after the coup of Napoleon III. arrested and expelled from the country a few months later.
He then lived in different places, in England , Berlin, Leipzig , Prague , Gotha , where he came into close relationships with Duke Ernst II and published the then sensational brochure The Duke of Gotha and His People (1861). Most recently he lived in Bozen , where he died and was buried in the city cemetery south of the Marienpfarrkirche ( reburied in St. Jakob-Oberau since 1931 ).
Schmidt-Weißenfels was one of the co-founders of the "Schlaraffia" in Prague and later a member of the Stuttgart local group (internally called "Reych") of the Schlaraffia Association .
Works, politically
- France's modern literature since the Restoration (Berl. 1856, 2 vols.)
- Rahel and her time (Leipz. 1857)
- Scharnhorst (Leipz. 1859)
- History of French Revolutionary Literature (Leipz. 1859)
- Friedrich Gentz (Leipz. 1859)
- Characters of German literature (Leipz. 1859, 2 vol.)
- Prussian Landtagmen (Berl. 1862), URL: http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10014143_00005.html .
- Prince Metternich (Prague 1860, 2 vol.)
- Fichte and the German people (Berl. 1862)
- France and the French (2nd edition, Berl. 1869)
- Ferdinand Freiligrath (Stuttgart 1876, 2nd edition 1877)
- Portraits from France (Stuttgart 1881)
- Character pictures from Spain (Stuttgart 1885)
Works, historically
- Polignac (Berl. 1866)
- Pascal Paoli (Leipzig, 1867)
- The eighteenth Brumaire (Berl. 1869)
- The sons of Barneveldt (Berl. 1871)
- The uprising in Algiers (Berl. 1872)
- Nobility pride (Berl. 1873)
- King Zero (Berl. 1876)
- Prince Erdmann (Berl. 1878)
- Sturmleben (Berl. 1878)
- Second spring (Berl. 1881)
- The perjurers (Berl. 1886)
- German Crafts Library (Stuttgart 1878–83, 5 vols.)
- History of modern wealth in biographical and factual examples (Berl. 1893)
literature
- Franz Brümmer : Schmidt-Weißenfels, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, p. 112 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduard Schmidt-Weißenfels in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Eduard Schmidt-Weißenfels in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt-Weissenfels, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1893 |
| Place of death | Bolzano |