Friedrich Ludwig Lindner

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Friedrich Ludwig Lindner (born October 23, 1772 in Mitau in the Polish feudal duchy of Courland , † May 11, 1845 in Stuttgart ) was a German journalist , writer and physician .

origin

His parents were the doctor Ehregott Friedrich Lindner (1733-1816) and his wife Henriette Marie Wirth (1744-1807).

Life

After studying in Mitau and Jena and staying in Würzburg , Göttingen and Berlin , he settled in Vienna in 1800 as a doctor . In 1802 he introduced the smallpox vaccination in Brno , in 1809 he went to Weimar to work with Friedrich Justin Bertuch and taught at the University of Jena until 1814 as a professor of philosophy .

After August von Kotzebue was expelled from Weimar because of the publication of explosive secret papers , his manuscript from southern Germany , published in Stuttgart in 1820 under a pseudonym and created on the initiative of King Wilhelm I of Württemberg , caused a sensation. It called for the small states in Germany to be further mediatized on the four medium-sized states Bavaria , Saxony , Hanover and Württemberg , which, as Third Germany, should jointly form a counterweight to the great powers Prussia and Austria .

The appearance of the Secret Papers in 1824, the authorship of which was attributed to him despite some doubts, led to Lindner's expulsion from Stuttgart . He came to Munich via Augsburg , where he - together with Heinrich Heine - has been editing the Political Annals since 1828 .

Lindner was an opponent of the Prussian state philosopher Hegel and tried to take him at his word and to beat him with his own weapons in his drama The absolute boot .

He also published various works on geography and ethnology.

family

In 1810 he married Elise Reiffinger (* 1789) from Hüningen.

Works

  • Manuscript from southern Germany. Published by George Erichson. London, James Griphi (d. I. Stuttgart, JB Metzler), 1820 online .
  • Secret papers. Stuttgart, Friedrich Franckh, 1824
  • Austria's position in the age of Franz the First. Stuttgart 1835
  • The shoemaker's journeyman, steeped in Hegelian philosophy, or the absolute boot. Drama in two appearances. Stuttgart 1844
  • The absolute boot: or, The journeyman cobbler steeped in Hegel's philosophy. Translated and with an introduction and notes by Lawrence S. Stepelevich. North Syracuse, NY: Contrast Press, 2008.

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SURNAME Lindner, Friedrich Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer and physician
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Mitau
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1845
Place of death Stuttgart