Eginhard von Barfus

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Eginhard von Barfus
Book cover of the first edition of Vom Kap nach Deutsch-Afrika from 1888.
Book cover of the first edition of The Treasure of the Kaziken from 1890.
Illustration in the first edition of Die Goldsucher am Klondyke , 1899

Karl Richard Eginhard von Barfus (born November 7, 1825 at Gut Tetzleben near Treptow an der Tollense , Pomerania ; † February 20, 1909 in Munich ) was a German author of adventure novels .

family

Karl Richard Eginhard von Barfus came from the old Altmark noble family Barfus , which was first mentioned in 1251.

Barfus married on October 8, 1859 in Königshütte Luise Wierz (born August 6, 1835 in Honnef ). The couple had two children, Arthur (* 1860) and Natalie (* 1861).

Life

After his school days in Danzig Barfus joined the Prussian army in 1842 when he was then seventeen . Just three years later he became an officer . Around 1851 he retired from the Prussian army as a lieutenant and joined the Dutch colonial army , with which he took part in several campaigns on Borneo and Sumatra . In 1858 he also left the Dutch army because he could not stand the tropical climate and often fell ill .

In 1860 he returned to Germany, where he looked for a new source of income and carried out various activities. Since he several small items for even during his military house leaves of Edmund Hoefer and Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer had written, they suggested him to earn his money in the future throughout the writing.

Around 1888 he presented his first larger story Vom Kap nach Deutsch-Afrika . Since it sold well, many other, mostly adventurous works soon followed, which made him one of the most popular German youth writers of the late 19th century.

His stories are entirely works of his time and were therefore often classified by later German literary criticism as colonial-glorifying and nationalist works. Today Barefoot is almost unknown and his works are only available in antiquarian versions. His files in the Goethe and Schiller Archives ( Weimar ) were sorted out for destruction by the German Schiller Foundation in the 1930s .

Works

  • Bending, but not breaking (probably before 1888)
  • The Flying Dutchman (probably before 1888)
  • From the Cape to German Africa (1888)
  • Through all seas (1889), from 1919 under the title: Ship Boy Adventure
  • The Diamond Treasure (1889)
  • In the Diamond Land (1890)
  • The treasure of the Kaziken (1890)
  • German Navy in the Congo and the South Seas (1892)
  • German settlers on the Cheyenne (1892)
  • An Eerie Sea Voyage (1892)
  • A ride for life (1892)
  • War journeys of an old soldier in the Far East (1892)
  • Faithful Comrades (1892)
  • Into the wild (1895)
  • At the Elephant Lake (1896)
  • Watawa, daughter of the Crow chief (1897)
  • In the land of the Boers (1897)
  • The mutineers in the South Seas (1898)
  • The gold prospectors at Klondyke (1899)
  • With the Flibusti in Cuba (1900)
  • The Boer freedom struggle (1900)
  • On Samoa (1901)
  • From Far Zones (1908)
  • In Malay Captivity (1909)

literature

  • Friedrich Schegk, Heinrich Wimmer (ed.): Lexicon of travel and adventure literature , Meitingen, 1988 ff, ISBN 3-89048-700-9
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume XIII, page 101, volume 60 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1905, sixth year, p.615

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personal data
SURNAME Barfus, Eginhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barfus, Karl Richard Eginhard von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of adventure novels
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Tetzleben near Treptow on the Tollense
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1909
Place of death Munich