Ernst August Anton von Göchhausen

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Ernst August Anton Göchhausen (born June 12, 1740 in Weimar ; † March 28, 1824 in Eisenach ) was a German anti-Enlightenment author, ducal Saxe-Weimar secret chamber councilor to Eisenach and chamber director and Freemason .

origin

Ernst August Anton was the son of the captain and chamberlain Johann Anton Friedrich von Göchhausen auf Buttelstedt and Nermsdorf and Sophie Helene, née. Jacobi.

Conspiracy theory

In 1786 he anonymously published his revelation of the system of the world citizenship republic , a polemic against the Illuminati order , which had been banned the previous year and to which he briefly belonged under the code name Nahor. In it he put forward the conspiracy theory that the secret activities of the order as well as all efforts of the Enlightenment to help reason to breakthrough were in truth machinations of the Jesuit order , which was banned in 1773 , whose aim is to shake all state and religious security, in order to establish the world domination of the Pope on the basis of the anarchy thus established. According to the German studies Ralf Klausnitzer Göchhausen put it, "in almost paradigmatic manner, the design principles of an overblown paranoia open." In 1787 Göchhausen expanded his argumentation in confrontation with his critics, including the former Illuminatist Johann Joachim Christoph Bode , and published them in book form under the title Aufschluss und Defheidigung der Revelung der Weltbürger-Republik . Christoph Martin Wieland criticized this book in an essay in the Teutsche Merkur .

plant

  • Natural dialogues , OO 1772
  • The Werther fever, an unfinished family piece , Nieder-Teutschland (Leipzig) 1776
  • Antoinette, a little girl from the other world , Leipzig 1776
  • Leyerlieder , Eisenach, Wittekindt, 1780
  • Unveiling of the system of the world citizenship republic , Rome 1786
  • Masonic wanderings of the wise Don Quixote , 1787
  • Fragments of the history and statements of a son of man , Eisenach 1787
  • Folly is as infectious as the cold , 1788
  • Martin Sachs, my father's house chronicle . Erfurt 1790

literature

Friedrich August Schmidt (ed.): New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 2nd year 1824, 2nd issue. Bernh. Friedr. Voigt: Ilmenau 1826, pp. 613–617. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Georg Meusel (Ed.): The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the German writers now living , started by Georg Christoph Hamberger, continued by Johann Georg Meusel, volume two. Lemgo 1796, p. 593.
  2. ^ Göchhausen, Ernst August Anton von in the German biography
  3. ^ Friedrich August Eckstein: History of the Masonic Lodge in the Orient of Halle. A ceremony for the secular celebration of the lodge to the three swords . Gebauer Buchdruckerei, Halle 1844, p. 69 ( books.google.de )
  4. ^ Ralf Klausnitzer: Poetry and conspiracy. Relationship Sense and Sign Economy of Conspiracy Scenarios in Journalism, Literature and Science 1750-1850 . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-097332-7 , pp. 147 ff. and 277 (here the quote).
  5. ↑ Reiner Godel: "Incidentally, whether what I have distilled from these leaves is real gold remains to be seen" . In: Jost Hermand and Sabine Mödersheim (eds.): German secret societies. From the early modern times to the present . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-21625-2 , pp. 31–57.
  6. ↑ reader.digitale-sammlungen.de
  7. ↑ Leopold Hischberg: The Taschengoedeke . Stuttgart 1961, p. 189
personal data
SURNAME Göchhausen, Ernst August Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göchhausen, Ernst August Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1824
Place of death Eisenach