Ferdinand Löwe (writer)

Friedrich Ferdinand Benedict Löwe (born October 12, 1809 in Hamburg , † April 29, 1889 in Stuttgart ) was a German writer, librarian and translator of Estonian and Russian works into German.

Life

Löwe was born on October 12, 1809 in Hamburg as the son of the teacher and later tobacco and cigar manufacturer Heinrich Georg Ferdinand Löwe . He studied theology in Berlin and went to St. Petersburg in 1836 . There he got a job as a curator at the library of the Academy of Sciences and worked as a journalist for the “St. Petersburg Newspaper ”. In 1848 he left St. Petersburg for political reasons and returned to Hamburg, where he became a member of the Constituent Assembly. He went to Tübingen in 1852 to study law there, but was expelled from there at the end of the same year. His appeal against the expulsion was unsuccessful and he therefore applied to the Hamburg Senate to accept him again in Hamburg. In the meantime, he received permission to resume his old position in St. Petersburg and he followed this request. After his retirement he moved to Tübingen, lived in Reval from 1865 to 1871 and died on April 29, 1889 in Stuttgart.

literature

• Otto von Böhtlingk : Letters to the Petersburg dictionary . Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05641-0 , p. 269, note 16 .
• Hans Schröder , Friedrich August Cropp, Carl Rudolph Wilhelm Klose: Lion (Friedrich Ferdinand Benedict) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 4 . W. Mauke's Sons, Hamburg 1866, p. 529 .

Web links

Wikisource: Ferdinand Löwe  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Ferdinand Löwe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ferdinand Löwe in the Digital Text Collection of Older Literature Estonia (EEVA)