Friedrich Karl Ludwig Textor
Friedrich Karl Ludwig Textor (born November 13, 1775 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 31, 1851 there ) was a German lawyer and dialect writer.
life and work
Textor was a son of the Frankfurt councilor and mayor Johann Jost Textor (1739–1792). His grandfather was Johann Wolfgang Textor . From 1784 he attended the Frankfurt high school , where he was particularly noticeable due to several long periods of absence. While he was still at school, the comedy Der Prorector was created in 1794 , in which he caricatured his teacher Johann Jacob Gottlieb Scherbius , who had also taught his cousin Johann Wolfgang Goethe in Latin and Greek. In the play, Textor portrayed himself as the cheeky class elder of the secondary school . The piece is considered to be the earliest surviving play in the Frankfurt dialect. The second edition was published in 1839 and was published by Hermann Grotefend in the Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art in 1893 .
In 1797 Textor began studying law in Tübingen , which he completed in 1800 with a doctorate and habilitation. Textor stayed in Tübingen as a private lecturer, later as an associate professor, until he returned to his hometown in 1813 and opened a law firm. In Tübingen he married Friedricke Sofie Gess († November 5, 1815) on May 16, 1805 , with whom he had four children. The eldest son was Wilhelm Carl Friedrich Textor , later a lawyer and politician of the Free City of Frankfurt .
Textor was considered an excellent and humorous speaker of great talent, but who did not succeed in building a secure bourgeois existence. In 1816 he had to declare bankruptcy and give up his practice again. Since his father's inheritance had also been used up in the meantime, he lived from private lessons in German, history, geography and ancient languages. Friedrich Stoltze was one of his students .
He couldn't find a publisher for a world history he had written , so the work remained unfinished. In the last years of his life, Textor was impoverished and lived on a grant from the Brönner Foundation in the Senckenberg Bürgerhospital .
literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 467 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Textor, Friedrich L .: The Prorector . A comedy in 2 acts. Carl Körner, Frankfurt 1839 ( digitized [accessed April 10, 2017]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Textor, Friedrich Karl Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and dialect writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1851 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |