Gustav Kühne

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Gustav Kühne, 1868.
Gustav Kühne

Ferdinand Gustav Kühne (born  December 27, 1806 in Magdeburg , †  April 22, 1888 in Dresden ) was a German writer and literary critic and was added to Young Germany .

At the age of twelve, Gustav Kühne and his family moved from Magdeburg to Berlin , where he attended the Joachimsthal Gymnasium . There he met the later Young German writer Theodor Mundt , with whom he had a lifelong friendship. From 1826 to 1830 studied Kühne in Berlin with Friedrich Schleiermacher and Friedrich Hegel 1830 philosophy and a doctorate in Erlangen Dr. phil. In 1841 he married Henriette Harkort, the daughter of the mining engineer and officer Eduard Harkort . In 1856 he and his family moved to Dresden , where he died in 1888.

Activity as a journalist and literary critic

From 1831 Kühne initially worked for various magazines such as the Prussian State Newspaper and its supplement magazine for foreign literature , the yearbooks for scientific criticism , the sheets for literary entertainment and the literary Zodiacus . In 1835 he succeeded Heinrich Laube as editor of the newspaper for the elegant world , in 1846 he succeeded his friend August Lewald as editor of the magazine Europa, Chronik der Bildungswelt . From 1859 Kühne turned entirely to his own literary work.

Literary activity

As early as 1831 Kühne published a first volume of novellas . In 1835 his first novel A quarantine in the madhouse was published . From this time he was added to the wider circle of "Young Germany". His relationship with the authors of this so-called “school”, especially with Karl Gutzkow , who panned his first novel, remained tense. Kühne had a particularly positive relationship with Mundt and Wienbarg . After Kühne was mentioned in Menzel's literary journal as a critic of Junge Deutschland and was spared the publication ban imposed on most young German writers in 1835, Ludwig Börne publicly invited him to make a commitment to new German literature, which Kühne did. As a result, his first monastery novella was banned by the censors in 1837. From the early 1840s, Kühne wrote several dramas, including, for example, The Dublin Conspiracy . In creating this and other works against the background of Irish history, he received support from Ottilie von Goethe , Goethe's daughter-in-law, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . During the revolution of 1848 Kühne wrote several articles about the political events. He published a collection of these articles in 1863 under the title My diary in a moving time . From 1862 he put together a collection of his writings in 12 volumes.

Works

  • A quarantine in the madhouse . Leipzig 1835.
  • Monastery novels (2 volumes). Leipzig 1838 ( archive.org ; also appeared under the title: Raoul , archive.org ).
  • Female and male characters . Leipzig 1838 ( Vol. 2  - Internet Archive ).
  • The rebels of Ireland . Leipzig 1840 ( archive.org ).
  • Sospiri. Leaves from Venice . G. Westermann, Braunschweig 1841.
  • Portraits and silhouettes . Hanover 1843 ( archive.org ).
  • The Freemasons. Roman (= German Library. Collection of selected original novels , edited by Otto Müller, Vol. V). Meidinger, Frankfurt am Main 1855 ( archive.org ).
  • The Dublin Conspiracy. Mayer, Leipzig 1856.
  • From Mejican prisons, fragments of papers left by Eduard Harkort . Lorck, Leipzig 1858
  • Schiller book . Blochmann and Ernst, Dresden 1860 ( digitized version )
  • Collected writings (12 volumes). Leipzig / Berlin 1862–1867
  • My diary in turbulent times . Leipzig / Berlin 1863 ( archive.org ).
  • German characters (4 volumes). Leipzig / Berlin 1864-65 ( Vol. 1  - Internet Archive , Vol. 3  - Internet Archive , Vol. 4  - Internet Archive ).
  • Wittenberg and Rome (3 volumes). Berlin 1877.

literature

  • Petra Hartmann : Faust and Don Juan. A merging process, illustrated by the authors: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolaus Lenau, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Gustav Kühne and Theodor Mundt. ibidem, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-932602-29-3 .
  • Kurt Haß: Gustav Kühne as editor of "Europa" (1846-1859). Humanitas, Wiesbaden 1973, ISBN 3-7997-0212-1 .
  • Karsten Hein: Ottilie von Goethe (1796–1872). Biography and literary relationships of Goethe's daughter-in-law (= European university publications. Series 1: German Language and Literature , Volume 1782). Lang , Frankfurt am Main et al. 2001, ISBN 3-631-37438-0 (dissertation University of Düsseldorf 2000, 398 pages).
  • Fritz Martini :  Kühne, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 198 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Edgard Pierson (Ed.): Gustav Kühne. His life picture and correspondence with contemporaries. With a foreword by Wolfgang Kirchbach . Pierson, Dresden et al. 1889.
  • Edgard Pierson (Hrsg.): Felt and thought. Loose leaves from Gustav Kühne's writings. Pierson, Dresden et al. 1890
  • Johannes Proelß :  Kühne, Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 431-435.

Web links

Wikisource: Gustav Kühne  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://docplayer.org/6308989-2-sammlkag-von-namensunterschriften-d-member-d-vorparlamentes-1848.html
personal data
SURNAME Kühne, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kühne, Ferdinand Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1888
Place of death Dresden