Gustav von Hirschheydt

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Robert Heinrich Gustav von Hirschheydt (November * 27 jul. / 9. December  1853 greg. In Walk ; † 16th February 1934 in Riga ) was a Baltic German poet and lawyer.

Life

Gustav von Hirschheydt came from the Livonian line of the originally Franconian noble family von Hirschheydt . His father was Robert von Hirscheydt; his mother Auguste, b. from Tideböhl.

In 1867/68 he attended the Dorpat grammar school and then the governorate grammar school in Riga. From 1873 to 1878 he studied philology and law at the Imperial University of Dorpat . Here he became a member of the Livonia Dorpat .

From 1878 to 1889 he worked as a court attorney in Walk, and from 1883 also as a notary. From 1889 to 1917 he was secretary of the Wenden-Walk Noble Orphan Authority. Hirschheydt was a member of the German Association and from 1912 Vice President of the Association in the Livonia Governorate . In 1918 he was deported to Yekaterinburg . From 1919 he worked as a lawyer and poet in Riga. His defiantly combative Baltensang, written on the occasion of the revolution in 1905 , "became a folk song". He was married to his cousin Louise Sophie Anna Julie, born in 1878. von Hirschheydt (1854–1923).

Works

  • Baltic ballads and selected poems. Riga 1934
  • Poems. Riga 1936

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Student album of the Dorpatschen Gymnasium: from 1804 to 1879. Dorpat: Mattiesen 1879, p. 207 No. 3221
  2. ↑ a b c Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Gustav von Hirschheydt. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  3. ^ Gero von Wilpert : German Baltic Literature History. Munich: Beck 2005 ISBN 9783406535253 , p. 211
  4. ^ Hirschheydt, Robert Heinrich Gustav von , in: Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg , Volume 2, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 587
personal data
SURNAME Hirschheydt, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirschheydt, Robert Heinrich Gustav von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German poet and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH walk
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1934
Place of death Riga