Friedrich Joseph Emerich
Friedrich Joseph Emerich (also: Emmerich ; born February 21, 1773 in Wetzlar ; died November 17, 1802 in Würzburg ) was a German poet and journalist.
Life
Emerich was the son of a lawyer at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar . He attended grammar school in Wetzlar and then studied law in Mainz and Marburg from 1790 to 1793 , but was not admitted to the bar because of his membership in revolutionary circles after an internship at the Imperial Court of Justice.
In 1796, Emerich joined the French army, hoping for a revolutionary transformation of Germany through France, and took part in the campaigns of Generals Jourdan and Hoche . However, hopes of a career in the French military were dashed when Hoche fell and General Debelle was recalled, causing Emerich to lose his two sponsors. From 1797 he worked first in the French military and then in the local government in the republican Mainz in a subordinate position. From 1801 he lived as a "freelance writer", sometimes in dire poverty. In Mainz he made friends with Friedrich Hölderlin , who campaigned for the publication of Emerich's poems, although he criticized their form.
As seen in Emerich the author in Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz 'magazine Minerva appeared anonymously letters about the current state of German-French Rhinelander (1801/1802) saw with their hard criticism of the French system of government, he was at the instigation of Jollivet , the prefect of the department , arrested, his papers withdrawn and finally he was deported. This led to a collapse, Emerich fell mad in September 1802, whereupon he was admitted to the Juliusspital Würzburg , where he died after a hunger strike.
Emerich's importance for the history of German Jacobinism was recognized late, as the pamphlets he wrote appeared anonymously and could not be assigned to him for a long time.
Works
- Repeated appeal to the German nation . Pamphlet. 1794 (attributed by Gauch Emerich).
- Graf Lilienhain, a psychological novel. Bayreuth 1795.
- Poems. Frankenthal 1799.
- Letters from a Marseillaiser during the last incident with the Sambre and Maas armies up to Hoche's death. Hamburg 1799, digitized .
- Salutation to Germany's princes. Pamphlet. 1797.
- Shouting from a German to Europe's princes and his fellow citizens. Pamphlet. 1797.
- Look into the future with the Lüneviller peace. Mainz 1801, digitized .
- Kalile Wadimne Pilpay. Translated into German and edited metrically by Lucian Weber [= Friedrich Joseph Emerich]. 2 vols. Frankfurt am Main & Leipzig 1802.
literature
- Clemens Alois Baader : Lexicon of deceased Bavarian writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jenisch and Stage, Augsburg 1825, vol. 1, p. 41, digitized .
- Sigfrid Gauch : Friedrich Joseph Emerich - a German Jacobin. Studies on the life and work of Frankfurt am Main & Bern & New York 1986. At the same time, dissertation at the University of Mainz 1985 under the title Open and hidden spellings in literary Jacobinism .
- Gerhard Kurz: Emerich, Fredrich Joseph. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, vol. 3, p. 265 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Joseph Emerich in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Emerich, Friedrich Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Emerich, Friedrich Joseph; Weber, Lucian (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1773 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wetzlar |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1802 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |