Georg Christian Otto
Georg Christian Otto , also as the author Georgius and Christianus , (born December 9, 1763 in Hof ; † February 7, 1828 in Bayreuth ), Jean Paul's childhood friend , was a German writer and statistician.
Life
Georg Christian Otto, the second son of Hofer Vesper preacher Heinrich Otto, became a friend of Jean Paul at the grammar school in Hof. Both then studied together in Leipzig . Otto studied at the parents early 1780s theology and later jurisprudence . Towards the end of his studies, which he finished without a degree, he helped in the legal practice of his brother, the court fisherman Albrecht Otto, in Hof. After his father's death, he managed factory and commercial businesses in Hof from his father's inheritance without opening up any further career prospects.
The impoverished Jean Paul, tutor in Töpen from 1786 to 1789 , occasionally sat at the laid table of his wealthy friend from Hof. In the correspondence between the friends - over the years 1790–1804 - views of the content of Jean Paul's work from those times can be seen. From 1790 Christian Otto worked in parallel in a completely different area - statistics .
In 1800 Otto married Amöne Herold , a childhood friend from Hof with literary ambitions. a. was shaped by the training of Jean Paul. In 1802 the couple moved to Bayreuth; the marriage remained childless. From 1806 Christian Otto became quartermaster of a Prussian infantry regiment there . Towards the end of 1806 - after the battle of Jena and Auerstedt - he became the private secretary of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia . In 1807 Christian Otto followed the prince to East Prussia , but in 1808 he withdrew into the less dangerous private life of Bayreuth. Only 1820–1821 did Christian Otto make a detour to Munich to help the finance minister Maximilian von Lerchenfeld in the reorganization of Bavarian trade relations.
With the death of Jean Paul in 1825, Christian Otto also took care of the estate and published previously unpublished works by Jean Paul.
Works (selection)
- 1802–1804: Articles in Woltmann's Journal for History and Politics :
- As Georgius : parallels of the crusades, reformation and revolution ,
- As Georgius : Balance of Europe ,
- As Christianus : Luther and Loyola ,
- As Christianus : The life of Cola di Rienzo .
- 1810: The latest trade and finance Pandora
- 1810 as Georgius : Metamorphosis of the Germanic nobility (legal history and social policy)
- 1811: historical, financial and commercial views
- 1813: Considerations about the course of the Austrian redemption coupons
- 1814: Attempt to present the license stories
editor
- 1827: Jean Paul (posthumously): Selina
- 1827–1828: Truth from Jean Paul's Life contains Jean Paul's description of his own life
literature
- Jean Paul, Christian Otto: Jean Paul's correspondence with his friend Christian Otto. G. Reimer, Berlin 1829. Volume 3 - Internet Archive
- Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhardt Friedrich Voigt : New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 7, Part 1. BF Voigt, 1831, p. 5 ff.
Web links
- Georg Christian Otto in the German biography
- Entries in BVB
- Entries in the BSB Munich
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hof-Fiscal at Zeno.org
- ↑ Maximilian von Lerchenfeld (* 1778; † 1843)
- ^ Franz Muncker : Otto, Georg Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 751 f.
- ↑ online from the BSB (extracts)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otto, Georg Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Otto, Georg C .; Georgius (pseudonym); Christianus (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1763 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | court |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1828 |
| Place of death | Bayreuth |