Friedrich Wilhelm d'Elpons
Friedrich Wilhelm d'Elpons (* around 1785 in Silesia ; † June 1, 1831 in Frankenstein ) was a French-born Prussian major and writer .
family
FW d'Elpons was one of the sons of the French officer Johann Peter von Delpons , who had been in the Prussian service since 1761 . He married the actress Henriette Benda in 1810.
Career
Like his father and his two brothers pursued him an officer's career , was in the womb Infantry Regiment in Frankfurt / Oder and finally in 1819 as Major 's farewell taken.
Some of his comedies were performed in the 1810s. In 1819 he left the army and lived in Berlin, where he was a member of ETA Hoffmann's circle of friends . He was also a member of the staff of the magazine The Spectator (published 1821-1823).
Works
- Herz, der Große (Novelle, in Der Freimüthige für Deutschland , 1818, No. 246–248) ( in Fresh Jewish Cherries, 1827, pp. 147–165 )
- Jonas Prellhammer. Comedy in 3 acts (performed in Berlin and Dresden in 1818)
- The ancestor. Schwank in One Act ( in Der Freimüthige für Deutschland , 1819 ) ( in Fresh Jewish Cherries , 1827, pp. 67–98 )
- The Magic Flute. Scene from the diary of a budding man of the world (printed 1822)
- The billeting. Play in one act (in Knittelversen, performed in Darmstadt and Mainz in 1815 and in Berlin and Hamburg in 1816, printed in 1822)
- The dying. Posse in 1 act (unprinted)
- (together with ETA Hoffmann :) Rectified sonnet. To the poet of the tragedy Carlo (= Georg von Blankensee ) (printed 1820)
literature
- Gunnar Och : Literary anti-Semitism using the example of E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "Die Brautwahl". In: Mark H. Gelber (ed.): Studies on German-Jewish literary and cultural history from the early modern period to the present. Festschrift for Hans-Otto Horch on his 65th birthday. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-484-62006-3 , pp. 57-72.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Wilhelm d'Elpons in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lebensdaten via Goedeke XIV, p. 169 , and New Nekrolog der Deutschen IX / 2, p. 1198 .
- ^ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses , first year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1907, p. 154.
- ↑ See Goedeke VII, p. 420 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | d'Elpons, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | d'Elpons, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian officer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1785 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1831 |
| Place of death | Frankenstein |