Gustav von Boddien

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Gustav (Friedrich Rudolph) von Boddien (born March 30, 1814 in Ludwigslust ; † August 27, 1870 in Schwerin ) was a German forester , poet and draftsman .

Life

Gustav von Boddien was a son of the Mecklenburg officer and grand ducal adjutant Johann Caspar von Boddien and his wife Henriette, née. von Dewitz (1772-1857). Otto von Dewitz was his uncle. His eight siblings included the Prussian officer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly Alfons von Boddien and the Mecklenburg-Strelitz court marshal Adolph von Boddien (1812–1885).

He attended the Friedrich-Franz-Gymnasium in Parchim and studied from 1832/33 at the Eberswalde Forest Academy . As a hunting squire in the Friedrichsmoor district , he joined the Mecklenburg forest service. In 1834 he was appointed chamberlain . From 1843 he worked in the grand ducal forest administration in Schwerin and in 1848 became forest adviser and then chief forester. In 1862 he asked for his release for health reasons and moved to the south. In 1866 he returned to Schwerin.

He received an artistic education at the art academies in Poznan and Dresden . In 1848/49 he created a series of caricatures about the members of the Mecklenburg parliament , such as Carl Pohle , which were distributed as single sheet prints.

After 1848 he also devoted himself to poetry. 1850 his collection of poems was published songs , from August Bungert , Hans Sommer and Wolfgang von Bartels set to music (1883-1938) individual works; Anton Rubinstein set three of them to music : The dew flashes , Like a lark in blue air and Die Waldhexe 1869 as No. 1-3 of his six songs for a voice with piano accompaniment: op. 72 as well as The home of my songs 1872 as part of the 6 German songs (without opus number). According to Eduard Engel in 1906, the dew flashes in particular was sung more often , who also remarks that Boddien is admittedly only the poet of a single real song, because otherwise there is only very modest mediocre in his poetry collection.

The dew flashes in the grass of the night,
The moon passes in silent splendor,
The nightingale sings in the bushes;
A twilight hovers over meadows,
The whole spring smells into it,
We both wander in between.

O Lenz, how beautiful you are!
To go there in the blooming intoxication,
On his arm his trembling love,
With the first kiss in the sky
and to believe firmly in the foolish dream
That it would remain forever, forever!

Fonts

  • Songs. 1850; 2nd increased edition, Schwerin: Stiller 1890

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1098 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philip S. Taylor: Anton Rubinstein: A Life in Music. Indiana University Press 2007 ISBN 9780253116758 , pp. 150, 248, 257
  2. ↑ Eduard Engel: History of German Literature from the Beginnings to the Present. Volume 2: From Goethe to the present. Leipzig: Freytag; Vienna: Tempsky 1906, p. 791
personal data
SURNAME Boddien, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boddien, Gustav Friedrich Rudolph von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester, poet and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigslust
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1870
Place of death Schwerin