Friedrich von Heyden (writer)

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Friedrich August von Heyden-Nerfken (born September 3, 1789 on Gut Nerfken , Prussian Eylau district , † November 5, 1851 in Breslau ) was a German writer and senior councilor of Breslau.

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Friedrich von Heyden was born into the East Prussian noble family Heyden-Nerfken . After attending grammar school and the Albertus University in Königsberg , Heyden first went to Berlin and later to Göttingen to study history, languages ​​and literature. a. Barthold Georg Niebuhr , Friedrich August Wolf and Johann Gottlieb Fichte , who were to have a great influence on his later poetic work, and his acquaintance with Charles de Villers and Benjamin Constant, were to impress him deeply.

After completing his studies, he first served in a Prussian hunter battalion from 1813 to 1815, then entered the Prussian civil service and became a government trainee in Königsberg , continued to work for the governments in Frankfurt (Oder) , Stettin and Opole before becoming a councilor in Wroclaw in 1826 has been. In the same year he married Friederike (1807-1865) a daughter of the district president of Opole Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel with whom he had the sons August (1827-1897) and Friedrich (1838-1926). The daughter Charlotte (1831–1863) was married to Lieutenant Kajus Wilhelm Hermann von Engelmann († July 22, 1893). He died on November 5, 1851 as a senior government councilor in Breslau.

His writing activity was mainly in the field of poetry, but also with some success in the romantic epic. His first works outside of his circle of acquaintances, the romantic drama “Renata” (1816) and the tragedy “Conradin” (1818), also written in verse, reached a considerable audience. The subject of the writings now published by him (dramas, poetry, novellas, epic poems) are mostly the romantically transfigured Middle Ages, namely the Staufer period, for example "Kampf der Hohenstaufen" (1828) or "Reginald" (1831).

His most famous work "The Word of the Woman" appears in 1843, it deals with the reconciliation of the Guelphs with the Hohenstaufen on the occasion of the marriage of the son Henry the Lion with a daughter of Hohenstaufen. This poem was published more than 30 years after the poet's death in the 23rd edition.

Works (selection)

  • Renata. Romantic drama . Berlin 1816.
  • Conradin . Berlin 1818. Digitized
  • Seals . Königsberg 1820. Digitized
  • The Gallione. Poem in six songs . Göschen, Leipzig 1825.
  • Reginald. Romantic poem in 5 songs . Reimer, Berlin 1831. New edition: ISBN 3-628-44026-2 .
  • The schemers . Novel. 2 parts. Unicorn, Leipzig 1840.
  • The word of the woman . Leipzig 1843, digitized
    • with Wilhelm Georgy ( illustrator ): The word of women. A festival. 14th edition . Friedrich Brandstetter Verlag, Leipzig 1866.
  • The ungraded. A novella. On the poet's 150th birthdays . Beijing Cardboard Island Workshop 1939.
  • Marginal drawings. A collection of short stories and stories . 2 volumes, unicorn 1841.
  • Theater . 3 volumes, 1942.
  • The royal bride . 1851.
  • The gray John . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 13, 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 177-231. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. Digitized and full text in the German text archive

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SURNAME Heyden, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heyden-Nerfken, Friedrich August von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Nerfken , Prussian Eylau district
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1851
Place of death Wroclaw