Ernst von der Malsburg

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Ernst Friedrich Georg Otto Freiherr von der Malsburg (born June 23, 1786 in Hanau ; † September 20, 1824 at Escheberg Castle near Zierenberg , Kassel district ), pseudonym of Benghem . He was a German writer , poet , translator , lawyer and diplomat .

Life

childhood

The locked child, whose father died early, was raised by the mother. An uncle took the place of the father. The boy showed a pronounced motherly love and close ties to the mother. As a child he fell ill with a painful glandular disease, withdrew due to illness, and an initial spa stay followed. He first came into contact with poetry through a related poet who stayed briefly at Gut Escheberg, where the boy grew up. Confronted with illness, death and mortality as a child, he began his first poetic attempts. He was jokingly called "the little scholar". After the death of his head of house who wrote poetry, he continued to receive musical lessons from his uncle's wife.

Study and self-study

After completing his law studies in Marburg , he traveled to Paris before he got a job in the judiciary in Kassel in 1806 . He learned the Spanish language by himself and soon read Cervantes , Calderon and Garcilaso in the original text. During this time he made short trips to Warburg and Wilhelmsthal Castle with his friend Julie von Bechtolsheim .

Diplomatic activity

The political changes in Kassel (creation of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia ) gave him access to the diplomatic service, and in 1808 he was appointed royal Westphalian ambassador in Munich . A lively correspondence with the wife of another envoy in Munich dates from this time. He lived in Munich for three years and only returned to Escheberg for eight weeks before he was sent to Vienna as envoy . His admiration for Joseph von Hammer , to whom he dedicated his foreword to the morning star , comes from this time .

After his mother's death in 1813, he returned to Escheberg and worked again in the judiciary. He was one of the four members of the Hessian constitutional commission formed in October 1815 (with Georg Schmerfeld , Otto von Porbeck and Ferdinand Schenck zu Schweinsberg ), which in December 1815 presented an in many respects progressive and forward-looking first constitution for Hesse.

Literary circles

In the following years he translated Calderon (1817) and the sonnets of Shakespeare and formed a circle of friends of literary interested people who gathered for an undemanding, declamatory exercise that was supposed to purify taste, sharpen memory, and form the lecture. The romantics Ludwig Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano , Ludwig Tieck , Christoph Rommel , August von der Embde , Friedrich von Bodenstedt , Moritz von Schwind , Ludwig Emil Grimm and Louis took part in this circle, which his brother Karl Otto von der Malsburg helped to shape Spohr part. Malsburg itself also belonged to the romantic circle of the Brothers Grimm in Kassel.

In 1817 he was appointed to the electoral Hessian legation in Dresden . There he made the acquaintance of Therese from the Winckel , who showed him their rich art treasures. He met Amalie von Hellwig , who was spending the summer in Dresden, in September 1817 when a friend was engaged in Lusatia . In the period that followed, he was in lively correspondence with both women. In Dresden he became a member of the Dresdner Liederkreis and became acquainted with the poet Helmina von Chézy and the Swedish poet Urterboom. During this time, a lasting friendship developed with Friedrich Gr. Kalkreuth. During his time in Dresden, Malsburg translated Wohl und Weh . His own works were influenced at this time by the romantic poets Wilhelm Müller and Wilhelm Hensel . He also met Ludwig Tieck in Dresden; with him he maintained a literary domestic circle and exchanged numerous letters with him. His other poems were strongly influenced by Tieck's inner conflict .

In the winter of 1820/1821 Malsburg's translation of Morgenröthe in Copacavana by Calderon was published. After the death of his father's uncle in 1821, Malsburg returned to Escheberg to open a will. In addition to another nephew, he became the main heir and thus financially independent. The thought matured in him, "to create a charming, almost fairytale-like, well-proven of the rich estate, with its living and household, green and air houses, groups of trees, fruit and beech forests, lake and temple". His brother left the previous house to him, and he had the estate converted into Escheberg Castle according to his designs .

In November 1821 he left Escheberg again to go to Dresden. In 1822 he returned to Schloss Escheberg with his friend Count Löben , where music events and readings from the Spanish translations were organized.

On May 16, 1823, he traveled to Siebeneichen Castle near Meißen , there prepared the translation of Count Lukanor von Calderon, and presented his results to a literary circle.

In 1824 he died of a nervous fever. A collection of his later lyrical poetry appeared under the title: Poetischer Nachlaß 1825 in Kassel.

Works

  • Clare , 1807
  • Poems , 1817
  • Play by Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca (Translated) 1819
  • Jug girl by Lope de Vega ( transl .)
  • Alcalde of Balamea
  • The seer of the morning
  • Count Lukanor ( transl .)
  • Mayor of Zalamea
  • The Tangles of Chance , 1824
  • Star, Scepter and Flower , 1825
  • Letters
  • Poetic estate

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Friedrich Georg Otto von der Malsburg  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Draft constitution for Hessen-Kassel (1816), notarized representation of the Electoral Hesse state parliament negotiations . In: Horst Dippel (Ed.): Constitutions of the world from the late 18th century to the middle of the 19th century . de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-44058-8 , e-book
  2. ↑ Werner Frotscher: Constitutional Discussion and Constitutional Conflict: On the Development of Liberal Parliamentary Constitutional Structures in Kurhessen (1813–1866) . (PDF; 73 kB) In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History (ZHG), 2002, Volume 107, pp. 203–221 (206)
personal data
SURNAME Malsburg, Ernst von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malsburg, Ernst Friedrich Georg Otto Freiherr von der (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, poet, translator, lawyer and envoy
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1824
Place of death Escheberg Castle near Kassel