Friedrich Steger

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Friedrich Steger (born February 25, 1811 in Braunschweig , † December 30, 1874 in Leipzig ) was a German translator and author .

Live and act

Friedrich Steger, the son of the Braunschweig professor of history and geography at the Collegium Carolinum Johann Andreas Friedrich Steger († 1828), attended the Katharineum grammar school and the Carolinum Collegium in Braunschweig. From 1829 he studied law, first in Jena, from 1830 in Munich and from 1831 again in Jena. The lawyer Georg Friedrich Puchta was one of his academic teachers . In Jena he also attended the history lectures of the historian Heinrich Luden . During his studies he became a member of the Jenaische Burschenschaft / Germania in 1829 and a member of the Germania Munich Burschenschaft in 1830 .

From 1833 to 1837 Steger was on trial for membership in a banned student association. He was sentenced to a year and a half in prison. During the ongoing process, he was not allowed to take the state law examination. After serving his prison sentence at the end of 1839, he waived the test because, as a convicted person, he could not expect employment.

From July 1840 to February 1841 Steger published the “Braunschweigische Morgenzeitung”. Then he left his hometown Braunschweig and went to Leipzig. There he lived, interrupted by a ten-year stay in Meißen from 1848 to 1858, until the end of his life.

Steger achieved contemporary notoriety as a translator and author. His translations included travel reports by James Fenimore Cooper , for example . As an author, he wrote a novel and several non-fiction books that are mainly historical issues such as the Russian campaign in 1812 by Napoleon Bonaparte , or the history of the ruling house of Guelph devoted. Two of his books dealt with constitutional and criminal procedural law issues for a wide reading public.

Works (selection)

Non-fiction books:

  • The House of the Guelphs , 1843
  • The campaign of 1812 , 1845
  • Latest history: 1815-1850 , Westermann 1851
  • The constitution or the constitutional principle , Mayer 1858
  • Publicity and Orality in German Criminal Proceedings , 1858
  • Alsace with German Lorraine: country and people, description of place, history and legend , Quandt and Handel, 1871

Novel:

  • The Journey into Life , 1840

Translations:

  • Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès : Confidential communications on the men and events of the old regime , 4 parts, 1837
  • James Fenimore Cooper : Memories from Europe , 1837
  • Thomas Skinner: Foraging in the East Indies , 1837
  • James Fenimore Cooper: Wanderings in Italy , 2 parts, 1838
  • Thomas Babington Macaulay : Selected Writings (= all works in twenty-five volumes , volumes 13-25). Westermann, Braunschweig 1861.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 487-489.
  • Dieter Lent: Steger, Friedrich . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 19th and 20th centuries . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 584
  • Paul Zimmermann :  Steger, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 453-456. (with bibliography)

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Steger  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 455.
personal data
SURNAME Steger, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1874
Place of death Leipzig