Gustav Adolph Berthold

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Gustav Adolph Berthold (born February 9, 1819 in Oberoderwitz ; † March 14, 1894 there ) was a German writer and painter .

Life

Berthold was born in 1819, his father was Jonathan Christoph Berthold , the first homeopathic doctor in Upper Lusatia , his mother Clara Emilie nee. Herrmann. From 1828 he attended the community school in Zittau and later the local grammar school . As a result of a severe cold, Berthold fell ill with scarlet fever and a tan, whereupon he lost his hearing.

From 1836 he received lessons from the drawing teacher Müller in Zittau and attended the art academy in Dresden from 1840 to 1844. As a freelance draftsman and painter, he illustrated numerous books and commemorative sheets from 1853 to 1861, such as the album of the Saxon industry or Saxony's largest and most excellent factories , Manufactories, machine and other important commercial establishments in excellent, true-to-life images with statistical-topographical, historical and commercial texts and the album of the castles and manors of Saxony .

Berthold later wrote robber and mystery literature as well as novel-like biographies and published them in the Dresden publishing house Heinrich Gotthold Münchmeyers , for whom Karl May also wrote. He also worked as a teacher for hand drawing and architecture at Sunday schools in Oderwitz.

Gustav Adolph Berthold is considered one of the most important authors of colportage novels and wrote under the pseudonym Guido Waldner in 1851 and 1852.

Works (selection)

  • Bellona. Remembrance of the war events in Germany and Italy in 1866. A memorial book for the German people.
  • Johannes Karaseck, the robber chief. Character painting from the end of the 18th century.
  • The robber captain Wenzel Kummer, known as the Bohemian Wenzel. Side piece to Johannes Karaseck.
  • The Tollenstein ruins as a predatory nest or Kardineck and Grünhans the predecessors of Johannes Karaseck. Story from the first half of the 18th century.
  • The emperor's son, a foundling! or: a second Kasper Hauser and unsolved mystery of dark paths of fate. Novel edited from reality . J. Breyer, Dresden 1860.
  • The Tollenstein in Bohemia . 1860.
  • The pastor's daughter of Goldenheim . Verlag Heinrich Gotthold Münchmeyer, 1883.
  • The grave bride . Verlag Heinrich Gotthold Münchmeyer, 1884.
  • The forest mill on the Chernaya. Hatred and Love or The Forest Mill on the Chernaya . Verlag Heinrich Gotthold Münchmeyer, 1871.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipzig Yearbook on Book History . tape 16 . Harrassowitz, 2007 ( books.google.de - limited preview).
  2. ^ Jost Schneider: Social history of reading . Walter de Gruyter, 2004, p. 194 ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Berthold, Gustav Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berthold, Gustav Adolf; Berthold, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberoderwitz
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1894
Place of death Oberoderwitz