Gustav Heine von Geldern

Gustav Heine

Heinrich Heine, lithograph by Eduard Kaiser with a dedication for his brother Gustav Heine von Geldern

Gustav Heine , since 1870 Freiherr Heine von Geldern (* between 1803 and 1805 in Düsseldorf ; † November 15, 1886 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian publicist .

Life

Gustav Heine was the second son of the cloth merchant Samson Heine (born August 19, 1764 in Hanover; † December 2, 1829 in Hamburg) and his wife Betty (actually Peira) , née van Geldern (born November 27, 1771 in Düsseldorf; † 3 September 1859 in Hamburg). His older brother was the poet Heinrich Heine , his sister the Salonnière Charlotte Embden , and his younger brother Maximilian von Heine .

After the father's bankruptcy, the family moved to Hamburg , where Salomon Heine , the father's brother, lives. Gustav Heine finished his schooling there and then studied at the Universities of Halle and Göttingen . After graduating, he worked in agriculture and as a businessman. In 1831 he joined the 6th Moravian Dragoons Regiment in Bohemia as a cadet, was promoted to second lieutenant in 1832 and first lieutenant in 1836 and served as such in the 3rd Galician Chevaux-Legers Regiment in Transylvania from 1838 to 1844.

In 1847 he founded the daily foreign newspaper in Vienna , which became the official organ of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

On March 30, 1867 he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown III. Excellent class and raised to the hereditary Austrian knighthood due to the statutes of the order. On September 24, 1870 he was raised to the hereditary status of Austrian baron and on October 20, 1870 his name was added to Geldern (his mother's family name). In 1878 he received the Franz Joseph Order II class (Commander's Cross with a star), which is particularly striking in the picture opposite .

He was the owner of the manors Schönkirchen, Raggendorf, Neuhof and Straßhof.

He was married to Emilie Kaan von Albest (1824-1859), a daughter of the Viennese industrialist Heinrich Samuel Kaan de Albest, who was raised to the Hungarian nobility in 1826 . One of his sons, Maximilian Freiherr von Heine-Geldern , wrote under the pseudonym “M. Heroes "u. a. the libretto for the operetta Mirolan by the composer Moritz Fall . Through his daughter Marie, he was the grandfather of Gustav Heinrich Maria Graf Sizzo de Noris .

literature

• Isidore Singer, Bernhard Templer: Heine, Gustav, Freiherr von Geldern . In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 6. Funk & Wagnalls, New York [et al.] 1904, p. 326f., Cited there:
• Foreign paper . November 16, 1886
• Ludwig von Embden: Heinrich Heine's family life . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg, 1892, p. 65
• Jan-Christoph Hauschild , Michael Werner : "The purpose of life is life itself". Heinrich Heine. A biography. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-462-02644-5 .
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 520 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses , 27.Jg., Justus Perthes , Gotha 1877, p. 338

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The birth registers have been lost, recent research assumes a birth between 1803 and 1805. Heine himself is said to have given June 18, 1808 as his date of birth ( Neue Freie Presse , November 16, 1886, p. 5, facsimile ), some of this information can also be found in secondary literature.
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   Wikisource: BLKÖ: Kaan Edler von Albest, Samuel Heinrich  - Sources and full texts
3. ↑ Susanne Blume Berger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Manual Austrian authors of Jewish origin 18th to 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 520 ( limited preview in Google book search).
4. ^ Text of the chants for "Mirolan"  in the German Digital Library