Ferdinand von Eckstein
Ferdinand von Eckstein (born September 1, 1790 in Copenhagen , † November 24, 1861 in Paris ) was a Danish writer and French civil servant.
Life
Ferdinand von Eckstein's father, Jean-Ferdinand Eckstein (around 1759–1827) converted from the Jewish faith to Lutheran Protestantism. His mother was Meda Cecilia, b. Schultz (* unknown; † around 1806). His nephew was Ferdinand Johannes Wit von Dörring , whom he took in for some time in Paris.
He studied philosophy with Friedrich Creuzer in Heidelberg and learned Sanskrit in self-study . During his studies he took part in meetings of the Illuminati .
Ferdinand von Eckstein converted to the Catholic faith in 1809 under the influence of Friedrich Schlegel during a stay in Rome.
In 1813 he joined the Lützow Freikorps as a member of the " Tugendbund " and became the police chief of Ghent during the occupation of Belgium , where he met Louis XVIII . know who made him Commissioner General of the French Police in Marsaille . In 1818 he was appointed general inspector in the police ministry in Paris and then a historiographer in the Department of Foreign Affairs and a baron.
He became known after the July Revolution of 1830 for his anti-Prussian comments in the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung . For which he wrote as the main correspondent in Paris, he marked the articles with the Venus symbol ♀.
In 1826 he founded the Catholic magazine Le Catholique , which appeared from 1826 to 1829, in which he advocated the metaphysics of history.
In his last years he was engaged in scientific studies on Indian Veda 's and Mahabarata . Nicknamed " Baron Sanskrit ", he believed that God's revelation in its purest form was found in the texts of ancient India.
Works (selection)
- The battle for Pisa: a tragedy . Heidelberg: Mohr u. Room, 1813.
- Le Catholique; ouvrage périodique dans lequel on traite de l'universalité des connaissances humaines sous le point de vue de l'unité de doctrine de M. le baron d'Eckstein . 16 tom. Paris, 1826-29.
- Réponse de M. le baron d'Eckstein aux attaques dirigées contre lui par M. Benjamin Constant dans son ouvrage intitulé: De la religion . Paris: A. Sautelet, 1827.
- Of the Jesuit . Paris 1827.
- De ma carrière politique et littéraire en France et dans les Pays Bas . Paris, 1828.
- Philipe Félix Balthasar Otton Ghislain Mérode , comte de; Ferdinand Eckstein, baron of: Un mot sur la conduite politique des catholiques belges, des catholiques français, et l'ouvrage de M. de La Mennais intitulé: Des progrès de la révolution, et de la guerre contre l'église Suivi d'un article on le génie de M. de La Mennais, extrait du Catholique . Paris, J.-G. Dentu, 1829.
- Analysis de Kathaka-Oupanishat. (Extrait du Yadschourveda, Extrait de la 3me liv. Du 3e vol. Du Journal de l'Institut Historique.) . Paris, 1835.
- De l'Espagne, considérations sur son passé, son présent, son avenir: Fragments . Paris, 1836.
- Recherches historiques sur l'humanité primitive: extrait de la revue indépendante . Paris Martinet 1847.
- Gaetano Alimonda ; Ferdinand von Eckstein: Articoli estratti dall'Armonia della religione colla civiltà, giornale di Torino e dal Courrier de la Gironde e la España ec. ec . Roma: Bonifazi, Filippo (libr.) 1848
- About the fundamentals of Indian philosophy and its connection with the philosophemes of the western peoples . Berlin, 1853.
- De quelques légend brahmaniques qui se rapportent au berceau de l'espèce humaine: Légende des deux soeurs, La Kadroû et la Vinatâ . Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1856.
- Questions relatives aux antiquités des peuples sémitiques à propos de l'histoire générale des langues sémitiques, ouvrage de M. Ernest Renan . Paris: A. Leleux, Libraire, 1856.
- Notice on the mémoires de Hiouen-Tsang . Paris: Imprimerie imperiale, 1858.
- Etudes sur la grammaire védique . Paris: 1859.
- Des études sanscrites . Paris Imprimerie de Simon Raçon et Comp. 1859.
- Sur les sources de la cosmogonie de Sanchoniathon . Paris Imprimerie Impériale 1860.
- History of the askesis of the ancient pagan and Jewish world as an introduction to a history of the askesis of Christian monasticism with a foreword by JJI von Döllinger . Freiburg im Breisgau, 1862.
- The proselyte from Judaism, Johann Ferdinand Eckstein reasons for conviction that Jesus the Christian is the fulfilled hope of Israel . Copenhagen: Paul Hermann Höecke, 1774.
- Nicolas Burtin; Ferdinand von Eckstein, Baron: Le Baron d'Eckstein. (Un semeur d'idées au temps de la restoration) . Paris, 1931.
- Ferdinand von Eckstein; Henri Dominique Lacordaire ; Félicité Robert de Lamennais ; Louis Le Guillou; Charles Forbes de Montalembert : Le baron d'Eckstein et ses contemporains: (Lamennais, Lacordaire, Montalembert, Foisset, Michelet, Renan, Hugo, etc.); correspondances with un choix de ses articles . Paris Champion 2003.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Magazine for Foreign Literature, p. 24 . AW Hayn, 1862 ( google.de [accessed March 3, 2018]).
- ↑ Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal, Ingrid Belke: Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal: the founders of ethnic psychology in their letters, p. 406 . Mohr Siebeck, 1971, ISBN 978-3-16-744988-2 ( google.de [accessed on March 3, 2018]).
- ^ Bernard Reardon: Liberalism and Tradition: Aspects of Catholic Thought in Nineteenth-Century France, p. 14 . Cambridge University Press, 1975, ISBN 978-0-521-20776-8 ( google.de [accessed March 3, 2018]).
- ^ Roland Lardinois: Scholars and Prophets: Sociology of India from France in the 19th-20th Centuries, p. 84 . Taylor & Francis, 2017, ISBN 978-1-351-40361-0 ( google.de [accessed March 3, 2018]).
- ^ Paris reports 1840-1848 and Lutezia. Reports on politics, art and popular life, p. 367 . Walter de Gruyter, 1991, ISBN 978-3-05-005322-6 ( google.de [accessed on March 3, 2018]).
- ^ Karl Christoph Vogt: My trial against the Allgemeine Zeitung: shorthand report, documents, and explanations, p. 186 . Self-published by the author, 1859 ( google.de [accessed on March 3, 2018]).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Eckstein, Ferdinand von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eckstein, Ferdinand; Cornerstone, d '; Eckstein, Ferdinand d ' |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish writer and French civil servant |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1790 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1861 |
Place of death | Paris |