Ferdinand von Eckstein

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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)

Individual evidence

  1. Magazine for Foreign Literature, p. 24 . AW Hayn, 1862 ( google.de [accessed March 3, 2018]).
  2. 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]).
  3. ^ 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]).
  4. ^ 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]).
  5. ^ 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]).
  6. ^ 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]).