Friedrich Wilhelm Carové

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Fr. W. Carové (chalk lithograph after 1852)

Friedrich Wilhelm Carové (born June 20, 1789 in Koblenz , † March 18, 1852 in Heidelberg ) was a German lawyer , writer and philosopher .

Life

As the son of a councilor from the Electorate of Trier , Carové attended the Görres-Gymnasium (Koblenz) , where Joseph Görres taught. He graduated from the law faculty established by the French in Koblenz . 1809 he became a licentiate of law doctorate and as a lawyer at Trier Court of Appeal admitted. In order to pursue private studies, he took various administrative positions in Zütphen , Leer , Aachen , Gernsheim and Andernach from 1811 to 1816on. In Andernach he was the collector of the Rhine shipping fees from February to August 1816 . Enthusiastic about the art and literature of antiquity in Germany, he and Eberhard von Groote from Cologne published a paperback for friends of old German times and art for the year 1816 , a “joint achievement of the Rhenish Romanticism” (Faber, p. 11). The large essay on medieval German art contained therein was highly praised by Joseph Görres in the Rheinischer Merkur .

In December of the same year, 1816, Carové sent the Brothers Grimm a collection of folk traditions on the Rhine and Moselle , which remained unprinted until 1997. Some of these records relate to Andernach, including the oldest tradition of a forerunner of the baker's boy motif, which only emerged later in its current form. He relocated the story of a failed attack on Andernach to the time of the Thirty Years' War , which he called the Swedish War , the attackers were therefore Swedish troops who actually attacked, conquered Andernach in 1632 under their General Baudissin and set it on fire in another attempt Withdrawn in 1633 because of fierce opposition (mentioned in: Hansen-Blatt 64, No. 52, 1999, pp. 53–59 (article by Klaus Graf)). This "beer brewer version" of an Andernach rescue saga, in contrast to the later established baker boy saga, only refers to an actual event that could have happened in a purely theoretical way, apart from the fact that the stone figures in the Rheintor were evidently neither baker boys nor brewers are. Nobody knows, however, from where Carové got the story.

In 1816 Carové took up philosophical studies in Heidelberg . He joined Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and became the moderate leader of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft after he became a member of the Teutonia Heidelberg Burschenschaft in 1816 and a member of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft in 1817 . He worked against xenophobia and anti-Semitism (until 1945) . As one of the representatives of the fraternities , Carové gave a speech at the Wartburg on October 19, 1817.

Carové was present at the Wartburg Festival in Eisenach in 1817 . His speech to the students present was also received from him. The invitation to the Wartburg Festival went to the students of the German fraternities of all Protestant universities in Germany, but not to the Catholic ones . But since he was the leader of a fraternity at a Protestant university, the invitation was sent to him.

In 1818 the philosophy faculty awarded him the doctorate degree . In the winter semester of 1818 he followed Hegel to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin ; but this could not get him the repetition position he wanted. In Wroclaw envisaged Habilitation failed in 1820 for political reasons, since it did not last the Burschenschaft commitment and his writings in the Prussian government suspicious. In 1821 he was also unable to become a private lecturer in Heidelberg . Carové had become a "victim of the restoration" (Faber, p. 30). He did not want to return to the Prussian customs service, from which he had only been given leave. From then on he lived as a private scholar and journalist alternately in Frankfurt am Main and in Heidelberg until material reasons forced him to give up the double residence in 1846 and he moved to Heidelberg entirely.

In the 1840s he took part in the constitution of an international peace movement . In 1848 he initiated a call for the abolition of slavery. His arguments impressed the member of the Frankfurt National Assembly Jacob Grimm , who on July 5, 1848 formulated in a motion on Article 1 of the Basic Rights: "All Germans are free, and German soil does not tolerate servitude" (Schmidt). Carové himself took part in the negotiations of the Frankfurt preliminary parliament in 1848 . He died on March 18, 1852 in Heidelberg.

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In his philosophical- political writings, Carové was concerned with aligning the state and the church with the ideal of humanity . One focus of his publications was the examination of the power of the Catholic Church, to which he himself belonged.

"His religious views and convictions concentrated in the ideal of a general Christian church, pure of all human additions, free of all hierarchy and limited only to the recognition of the general basic doctrines of Christianity."

- Heinrich Döring

Carové can be seen as a mediator between France and Germany, because not a few of his writings dealt with the intellectual developments in the neighboring country.

In the literary field, his two books, Romantic leaves and Moosblüthen, are the most important for Christmas gifts . The first publication contains the late romantic art fairy tale Kinderleben (also Das Märchen ohne Ende ). The English translation by Sarah Austin , published in 1834 under the title The Story Without an End , made this text extremely popular in the English and American-speaking countries. In the same year Charles Dickens published a satirical parody of the text ( The Story Without A Beginning (Translated from the German by Boz) ).

Publications

  • Draft of a fraternity order and attempt to justify the same , Eisenach 1818.
  • Romantic sheets , Eisenach 1818.
  • About the murder of Kotzebue , Eisenach 1819.
  • About the church that makes it all alone , 2 volumes, Frankfurt am Main 1826, Göttingen 1827.
  • Moosblüthen, as a Christmas present, Frankfurt am Main 1830.
  • Saint-Simonism and the modern French philosophy , Leipzig 1831.
  • Cosmorama. A series of studies for orientation in nature, history, state, philosophy and religion , Frankfurt am Main 1831.
  • About the Law of Celibacy of the Roman Catholic Clergy , 2 volumes, Frankfurt am Main 1832–1833.
  • About the so-called Germanic and the so-called Christian state principle with special reference to Maurenbrecher, Stahl and Matthäi , Siegen and Wiesbaden, Friedrich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1843
  • About emancipation of the Jews, philosophy of Judaism and Jewish reform projects in Berlin and Frankfurt aM , Siegen and Wiesbaden 1845.
  • Sovereignty of the German nation and competence of its constituent assembly , Berlin 1848.
  • Vestibule of Christianity or the last things of the old world. A world-historical look back at the pre-Christian religions , Jena 1851.

literature

Web links

Commons : Paperback for Friends of Old German Time and Art  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Friedrich Wilhelm Carové  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 165.
  2. ^ New necrology of the Germans . 30th year, 1852
  3. ↑ Carové / Austin , accessed via Google Book Search on September 25, 2010.
  4. ^ Dickens the journalist by John ML Drew, p. 25, accessed via Google Book Search on May 19, 2010.
  5. ↑ Michael Slater, Charles Dickens, p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Carové, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Germanist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1852
Place of death Heidelberg