Friedrich Wilhelm Adami
Friedrich Wilhelm Adami (born October 18, 1816 in Suhl , † August 5, 1893 in Berlin ) was a German writer with a predominantly Prussian patriotic tendency.
Life
Adami was the son of the surgeon Christian Gottlieb Adami and his wife Regina Dorothea. At his father's request, he began to study medicine in Berlin in 1835, but soon switched to philosophy and history. On September 28, 1841, Adami married the actress Auguste Pohl in Berlin .
From 1836 he wrote as a freelancer for the Berlin Figaro of the publisher Ernst Litfaß . In 1839 he founded the sunflowers , an annual almanac of historical and modern novels that had to be discontinued after ten years due to the revolution of 1848/1849 . In 1849 he was brought to the editorial office of the Neue Preussische Zeitung as a critic and columnist .
Adami is considered a conservative writer who was very successful in his time. For many of his publications he used the pseudonym Paul Fronberg . His plays were played regularly at the Königsstädtischer Theater and from 1853 onwards he wrote a play for the festival of the royal court theater in Berlin almost every year . He also translated plays for the theater and also edited them.
Honors
- 1868 royal Prussian councilor
Works (selection)
- Dramatic genre pictures from patriotic history . Berlin 1870 (2 vol.).
- Big and small world. Selected historical novels . Berlin 1870 (4 vols.).
- Luise, Queen of Prussia . Biography . 10th edition Berlin 1882.
- Fifty years ago. According to eyewitness records . Berlin 1863.
- From Frederick the Great's time . Berlin 1869.
literature
- Emil Dovifat: Adami, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 56 ( digitized version ).
- Eduard Vollmer: Berlin theater critic. A criticism of the criticism . Gerstmann, Berlin 1884.
- Karl Friedrich Ludwig Goedeke : Ground plan for the history of German poetry / NF, Bd. 1 . Verlag Ehlermann, Berlin 1940, pp. 120-133.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Addresses the beginning of the wars of liberation .
- ^ Pseudonym for Ludwig Stein.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Wilhelm Adami in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Friedrich Wilhelm Adami in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adami, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Suhl |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 5, 1893 |
| Place of death | Berlin |