Gerhard Anton Hermann Gramberg

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Gerhard Anton Hermann Gramberg (born September 18, 1772 in Oldenburg ; † May 10, 1816 in Oldenburg ) was a lawyer and poet in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) .

Life

He was the son of Gerhard Anton Gramberg and Margaretha Sophia geb. Jan (s) sen (1754-1829). First he received private tuition and then attended the old high school in Oldenburg. During this time he was friends with Karl Ludwig von Woltmann . As a schoolboy he tried his hand at poetry. After graduating from school, however, he studied law in Erlangen and Jena from 1790 . He then returned to Oldenburg, where he worked as a lower court attorney from 1793 and as a higher court attorney from 1796. At the suggestion of Gerhard Anton von Halem , a friend of his father's, he worked here until 1806 on a compilation of the complicated Oldenburg particular law. This activity was interrupted by his appointment as secretary at the Chamber of Commerce in 1799. In 1808 he returned to the judicial service as an assessor at the Oldenburg Regional Court . Two years later he became an assessor at the government chancellery and the consistory .

During the French occupation of northern Germany , Gramberg was appointed as a councilor to the Imperial Court of Appeal Cour Impériale in Hamburg in August 1811 . There he worked again with Halem. With him he went to the royal seat of the Oldenburg exclave Principality of Lübeck Eutin in the spring of 1813 after Hamburg was taken by Russian troops . When Hamburg briefly fell into French hands again, he temporarily returned there and then finally came to Oldenburg after the French were expelled in 1813. There he initially worked as a judge at the tribunal in Oldenburg. After the restoration of the old administrative structures, he was again assessor at the law office and the consistory. The unmarried Gramberg died at the age of 44 in his hometown.

In addition to his professional activity, Gramberg developed numerous activities. He was a member of the Oldenburg Freemasons' Lodge to the Golden Hirsch and the Oldenburg Literary Society , of which his father was a co-founder. He was interested in philosophy , history and aesthetics , but above all he was active in literature from an early age, whereby he also demonstrated an understanding of the popular. As a poet, he has made a name for himself beyond his home region. He published his poems and stories in three volumes under the title "Kränze" between 1801 and 1805, the ten verses influenced by Wieland and the poem Tobias , the pastor's son of Cola in hexameters and flowers by German poets from the first half of the 17th Century included. In 1803 he was editor of a poetic paperback with Casimir Ulrich Boehlendorff . In 1808 he published a tragedy called Sophonisbe and wrote for magazines and almanacs. After Gramberg's death, Gerhard Anton von Halem published further poems from the estate. Some of his works have also been set to music.

Gramberg was less important as a poet but more as a representative of the bourgeois intelligentsia around 1800.

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personal data
SURNAME Gramberg, Gerhard Anton Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1816
Place of death Oldenburg