François Wille

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François Wille , fully Jean François Arnold Wille (born February 20, 1811 in Hamburg , † January 7, 1896 in miles ), was a Swiss journalist , writer and politician .

Life

Born as the son of a watchmaker and businessman, Wille studied theology in Göttingen from 1831 and theology and jurisprudence in Kiel from 1833 . During his studies he became a member of a fraternity . Having participated in a duel as a second , he was detained for 6 months. In Jena he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . From 1836 he worked as a political journalist, among other things he was the sole editor of the time from 1841 . From 1841 to 1843 he headed the Hamburger Neue Zeitung . In 1845 he married Eliza Wille . In 1848 he was a member of the pre-parliament . He then moved to Switzerland and in 1851 acquired the Mariafeld estate in Feldmeilen . He created a political, literary and musical meeting place and worked as a political writer. Conrad Ferdinand Meyer dedicated his verse epic to Hutten's Last Days "Franz Wille and Eliza Wille to own". In 1864 Wille took part in a company trip to Constantinople, on which he met the Low German writer Fritz Reuter . Reuter later recalled this encounter in a brief reference in his novel De Reis' nah Konstantinopel or de meckelnbörgschen Montecchi un Capuletti (1867). In 1883 he wrote an expert opinion on behalf of the Federal Council . In 1862 he was the founder and until 1867 the first president of the non-profit society of the district of Meilen. In 1868 he was a constitutional councilor for the Democrats of the Canton of Zurich .

Wille was married to the writer Eliza Wille . His son is Ulrich Wille . His grandson is Ulrich Wille junior . His granddaughter is Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille and therefore her daughter Annemarie Schwarzenbach is his great-granddaughter.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enzo Maaß: Konstantinopel 1864: 'You know the Dokter Wille?': Fritz Reuter and François Wille: Notes on a travel acquaintance . Ed .: Fritz Reuter Literature Museum. No. 37 . Stavenhagen 2016, p. 17-27 .
  2. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved May 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Will, François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wille, Jean François Arnold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist, writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1896
Place of death miles