Gustav Gündel
Gotthilf Gustav Gündel (born September 4, 1794 in Johanngeorgenstadt , † December 1, 1860 in Zurich ) was a German Protestant theologian, educator and patron . He is regarded as the intercultural mediator of the Frizzoni circle in Bergamo , through which several German poets and artists were promoted in Italy.
Life
The son of the mayor and coinspector of Johanngeorgenstadt attended the Pforta state school from 1807 to January 8, 1813 and studied theology, philosophy and philology at the University of Leipzig from 1813 to 1817 , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1818 he went to Bergamo in Italy as a private tutor , where he taught German to the merchant sons Giovanni Leonardo and Federico Frizzoni, who came from a family from Graubünden who had emigrated to Italy . Gündel stayed in Bergamo and Naples until autumn 1826, interrupted by lengthy educational trips with his pupils.
He returned from Italy to his hometown in the Saxon Ore Mountains . Because he did not feel comfortable there because of the provincial narrowness, he moved back to Italy, where he became pastor of the evangelical community in Bergamo and continued to work as an educator in the Frizzoni house. With his work he took a key position in promoting German artists in Bergamo and Naples. During this time he got to know the refugee to Italy, like himself the homosexual poet August Graf von Platen-Hallermünde , with whom he was a close friend until his death.
Gündel died unmarried at the age of 67 in Switzerland.
Act
Gündel is considered an intercultural mediator within the Frizzoni circle in Bergamo, through which several German poets and artists were promoted in Italy. In 1828 he introduced von Platen to the wealthy Frizzoni family and was also close friends with the painter Carl Götzloff and the art historian Karl Friedrich von Rumohr . “The fine scholar” was for several decades a member of the German artist community in Naples , the senior of which was the painter Florian Grospietsch . a. the diplomat Heinrich von Arnim , the Nazarene Theodor Rehbenitz , the poet Wilhelm Waiblinger and the painter and writer August Kopisch belonged.
Gündel was a Goethe enthusiast. His passion was so great that he sought and established personal contact with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . He himself tried a few poems that were published as an anthology for his friends after his death in Leipzig .
Works
- From Gustav Gündel's estate: Collected for his friends , Leipzig: Giesecke & Devrient, 1861.
literature
- Emmy Rosenfeld: August von Platen and his mother's unpublished letters to friends in Italy with appendix , Milano Varese, 1965.
- On the literature of the restoration era, 1815-1848 , 1970, p. 112.
- Enrica Yvonne Dilk: The Frizzoni Circle from Bergamo. An Italian-Helvetian-European family picture in the context of literature, art and politics in the 19th century . In: Bernd Thum, Thomas Keller (Hrsg.): Intercultural curriculum vitae . Tübingen, Stauffenburg, 1998, pp. 141–157.
Web links
- Entry in the gatekeeper album
Individual evidence
- ^ Enrica Yvonne Dilk: The Frizzoni Circle from Bergamo: An Italian-Helvetian-European family picture in the context of literature, art and politics in the 19th century . In: Bernd Thum, Thomas Keller (eds.): Intercultural life courses . Tübingen, Stauffenburg, 1998, p. 145.
- ↑ Platen wrote a. a. in his diary: "Although here in Naples love between men is so common that even the boldest demands are not to be expected." In: August Graf von Platen: Tagebücher , 1905, p. 352.
- ↑ Ernst Schreyer: Silesian painting of the Biedermann time , 1965, p. 148.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gündel, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gündel, Gotthilf Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant clergyman and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1794 or September 24, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Johanngeorgenstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1860 |
| Place of death | Zurich |