Friedrich Arnold Steinmann

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Friedrich Arnold Steinmann (born August 7, 1801 in Cleve , † February 9, 1875 in Münster ) was a German lawyer and writer .

life and work

Steinmann studied law in Bonn and Heidelberg . During his studies in Bonn he became a member of the fraternity community . After completing his studies, he found a job at the Münster Higher Regional Court . He was relieved of his position because of his opinion expressed in the history of the revolution in Prussia . He then remained a writer and also dealt with the work of Heinrich Heine , with whom he shared the school desk for a short time in Düsseldorf, studied law in Bonn in 1819/20 and temporarily exchanged letters.

Steinmann later became notorious through the publication of several volumes of supplements to Heinrich Heine's works , which contain various posthumous poems and letters from Heine, but which all turned out to be Steinmann's forgeries. Steinmann had the following works published under the name Heines:

  • H. Heine: seals. First part. Romances, ballads, dream images, songs, railway images, poems of time . Amsterdam: Binger 1861
  • H. Heine: seals. Second part. Mixed poems, sonnets, on red earth, from the mattress tomb, narrative, burlesque, parodies, jokes, lost things . Amsterdam: Binger 1861
  • H. Heine: Berlin. Autumn fairy tales in 27 chapters. Amsterdam: Binger 1861
  • H. Heine: Letters. Edited by Friedrich Steinmann. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Binger 1861

The authenticity of these alleged Heine texts was disputed in public soon after their publication. Above all, Alfred Meißner disagreed and pointed out that there was no line of these - artistically questionable - poems in Heine's estate, nor any reference to their existence. Steinmann defended himself against the attacks in 1861 with a brochure The Frog Mouse War Against H. Heine's Seals , without being able to convince. "However, these forgeries gave the publisher Campe the reason to try to get a reliable edition of all texts."

Fonts

  • Münster stories, sagas, legends and proverbs. 1825, full text in Google Book Search
  • Letters from Berlin. 2 volumes, 1832, volume 1 , volume 2 in the google book search
  • Berlin enthusiasts, rockets and flares. 1832
  • The Roman hierarchical propaganda, its party, activities and progress in Germany. With retrospectives on the opposition of the Archbishop of Cologne based on incontrovertible facts described by the author of the book: "The Archbishop of Cologne, his principles and opposition." Brockhaus, Leipzig 1838 digitized
  • Mefistofeles. Review of the German present in sketches and outlines. Leipzig or Kassel; from 1843: Münster. 5 vols. 1842-1844
  • History of the Revolution in Prussia. 1849, full text in Google Book Search
  • Heinrich Heine. Memories and experiences from living with him. Prague u. Leipzig: Kober, 1857
  • The frog mouse war against H. Heine's poetry . Amsterdam: Binger 1861
  • A walk through Krähwinkel with a few letters from the same / from the quiesc. Runkel-Rüben Commission Assessor Sperling . Edited by Gerd Brinkhus. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-9803240-3-6 .

literature

  • Ludwig Fränkel:  Steinmann, Friedrich Arnold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 744-746.
  • Max Bickhoff: Friedrich Steinmann. A Westphalian publicist and politician. (1801-1875). Dortmund: Lensing, 1915. (Strasbourg, Phil. Diss. Of Nov. 4, 1915)
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 660-662.

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Arnold Steinmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contains “73 allegedly unprinted letter (s), of which only 31 are real. Steinmann had invented all of Heine's letters to him, with the exception of three pieces he published in 1842. “Werner Fuld: The Lexicon of Forgeries. Frankfurt a. M .: Eichborn, 1999, p. 107
  2. ↑ Werner Fuld: The lexicon of forgeries. Frankfurt a. M .: Eichborn, 1999, pp. 106-107, quoted on p. 107
personal data
SURNAME Steinmann, Friedrich Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleve
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1875
Place of death Muenster