Friedrich Christoph Foerster

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Friedrich Christoph Foerster
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Friedrich Christoph Förster (born September 24, 1791 in Münchengosserstädt , † November 8, 1868 in Berlin ) was a German historian, poet and writer.

Life

Förster was the second son of the pastor and church poet Karl Christoph Förster and the older brother of the painter and art historian Ernst Förster .

He attended elementary school and from 1805 the Friedrichgymnasium (Altenburg) . He studied at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the University of Jena , where he joined the Corps Franconia Würzburg (1808) and Saxonia Jena (1809) founded in 1805 . In Jena he studied Protestant theology , archeology and history . He passed the candidate exam in Altenburg and took a position as an informator in Dresden .

Wars of Liberation

At the beginning of the Wars of Liberation , he and Theodor Körner reported to the Lützow hunters . Like Körner, he wrote several war songs. As a prime lieutenant he was wounded in the battle of the Göhrde . After the Battle of Paris and the entry of the Allied troops into Paris, the Lützow Corps was disbanded. With the resulting regiment, Förster went to Berlin. When Napoleon's rule of the Hundred Days began, he was seriously wounded when he was again deployed in France in March 1815. He later participated in the retrieval of kidnapped art and literature from Paris. In 1856 he wrote in retrospect:

“The weapons of the monarchs themselves became democratic; the struggle against the tyrant was waged in the name of the freedom of the peoples by armies in which the national and political concept was alive; and he was led more for the moderate principles of the revolution than against them. This was the turning point of the times, which made the end of the revolution no less revolutionary than it was its beginning. "

- Friedrich Christoph Förster

Berlin

After the war, he taught at the United Artillery and Engineering School , the specialist military history . Because of an "offensive essay" he was brought before the court martial in 1817 and dismissed. Since he was denied a professorship at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , he devoted himself to writing. He published several articles on the history of war and the history of Prussia . He adored Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , with whom he soon became close friends. In 1829 he got a job at the Royal Museum in Berlin. He founded and directed the Scientific Art Association in Berlin. He was custodian of the Kgl. Kunstkammer , director of the Münzkabinett Berlin and head of the Ethnological Museum .

Förster was married to Laura geb. Gedike, daughter of the Prussian school reformer Friedrich Gedike . He was brother-in-law of Heinrich Meyer and Carl Emil Gedike . He belonged to the circle of friends of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (who admired his wife) and was a member of the lawless society in Berlin .

"Learn to fight with word and sword, so that you are ready to stand manly against everyone!"

- Forester

Friedrich Christoph Förster died after a brief illness on November 8, 1868 at the age of 77 in Berlin. He was buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstädtische and Friedrichswerder parishes on Chausseestrasse . The grave has not been preserved.

editor

Förster memorial stone in Münchengosserstädt

Honors

Fonts

  • Complete description of all celebrations and tributes that took place in the kingdoms of Prussia and Bavaria for the highest wedding ceremony of the most noble Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Prussen and… Princess Elisa Ludovika von Baiern… - Berlin: Maurer, 1824. Digitized edition
  • Contributions to recent war history, Berlin 1816
  • The song trip for friends of poetry and painting, Berlin 1818
  • Basics of the history of the Prussian state, 2 vols., Berlin 1818
  • Field Marshal Blücher and his surroundings , Leipzig 1820 (2nd edition 1821)
  • Handbook of the history, geography and statistics of the Prussian Empire , 2 vols., Berlin 1820–1822
  • Friedrich the Elder Size Youth, Education and Spirit, Berlin 1822
  • Albrechts von Wallenstein, the Duke of Friedland and Mecklenburg, unprinted, personal, confidential letters and official letters from the years 1627 to 1634 to Arnheim (v. Arnimb), Aldringer, Gallas, Piccolomini and other princes and generals: With a characteristic of life and of Wallenstein's campaigns, 3 parts, Berlin 1828/29
  • Gustav Adolph, a historical drama, Berlin 1832
  • Letters from a living person (an Italian journey), Berlin 1831
  • Wallenstein, Duke of Mecklenburg, Friedland and Sagan, as a general and sovereign in his public and private life: A biography. Based on the Duke's handwritten letters and from the files and documents of the Secret State Archives in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, and the most distinguished state archives of the Kingdom of Bohemia, Potsdam 1834
  • History of Friedrich Wilhelm I, King of Prussia, 3 vols., Potsdam 1834–1835
  • The Courtyards and Cabinets of Europe in the 18th Century, 3 vols., Potsdam 1836–1839
  • War songs, romances, stories and legends, 2 vol., Berlin 1838
  • The pearl on Lindahaide, 1841
  • Life and deeds of Friedrich the Elder Gr., 2 vol., Meißen 1840–1841 (11th edition 1842)
  • Christoph Columbus, 2 vols., 1842–1843
  • Peter Schlemihl's wondrous story . With 16 own drawings by Hosemann . Leipzig, 1843
  • Wallenstein's trial before the barriers of the world court and the kk Fiscus in Prague: with a document book of previously unprinted documents, Leipzig 1844
  • Prussia's heroes in war and peace, recent and recent Prussian history. From the great elector to our days , 7 vols., Berlin 1849–1860. (The last three volumes deal with the Wars of Liberation.)
  • After his death, memories from his life appeared under the title: Art and Life. From Friedrich Förster's estate, edited by Hermann Kletke. Berlin 1873

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Christoph Förster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener corps lists 1910, 202/45; 127/67. Renon philistines in both corps.
  2. ^ FC Förster: Modern and recent Prussian history , Vol. 3: History of the Wars of Liberation. Berlin 1856, p. 16
  3. ↑ a b c d e Förster, Friedrich Christoph (Lawless Society of Berlin)
  4. ↑ Short biography of Förster
  5. ↑ General military newspaper . Volume 43, No. 48, November 28, 1868. p. 384.
  6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 97.
personal data
SURNAME Forester, Friedrich Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Förster, Friedrich Christoph von (full name after ennoblement)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Münchengosserstädt
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1868
Place of death Berlin