Gustav von Struensee

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Gustav Karl Otto von Struensee (born December 13, 1803 in Greifenberg in Pomerania , † September 29, 1875 in Breslau ) was a Prussian civil servant (most recently senior councilor ) and writer who also wrote under the pseudonym Gustav vom See .

Gustav from the lake . Original drawing by Kriehuber ( Die Illustrirte Welt. 1870)

Life

Struensee was the son of Georg Karl Philipp von Struensee and his wife Friederike, née von Laurenz. His father was a district administrator in Greifenberg and was transferred to Cologne as police chief in 1816 . Struensee was initially taught by his mother, later switched to high school in Cologne and studied law in Bonn and Berlin from 1823 to 1826 . In Bonn he was in contact with Alexander Bachem . While still a student he became engaged to Josephine Imhoff, the daughter of a Catholic bookseller from Cologne, whom he married on August 24, 1831.

Struensee entered the civil service of the Kingdom of Prussia on April 1, 1827 as court court auscultator in Arnsberg . He then worked as a trainee lawyer in Düsseldorf from October 15, 1828 , where he made the acquaintance of the landscape painter Carl Friedrich Lessing . After passing the state examination, he came to Koblenz as a government assessor on July 26, 1831 and was promoted to the government council there on July 12, 1834 . In July 1838 he was transferred back to Arnsberg. On May 11, 1844, he was again transferred to Koblenz.

In December 1847 Struensee went to Breslau, where he took office as a government councilor in the spring of 1848 and was appointed to the senior government council that same year. There he made friends with Felix Eberty , Karl von Holtei and Rudolf Gottschall . Long-term correspondence connected him with Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer and Elise Polko . In 1863 he was elected as a member of the Liberal Party in the Second Chamber of the Prussian Landtag , where he joined the right-wing liberal "Fraktion Grabow ". Struensee was awarded the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Saxon-Ernestine House Order on June 6, 1865 .

On July 1, 1866, Struensee retired at his own request and from then on devoted himself exclusively to his literary work.

Work as a writer

Struensee began his literary work during his second activity in Arnsberg from 1838, apparently at the suggestion of the wife of the government councilor Bernuth . Under her influence, Struensee's first work was written in 1842 , the novella Das Pfarrhaus zu Aardal , set in Norway and published without a fee. In Arnsberg in 1843 the collection of novels from life and the novel Egon were created . The novel Rancé comes from Struensee's time in Koblenz in 1845 , the following year the Rhenish Novellas and in 1850 the novel The Siege of Rheinfels .

His work in Wroclaw includes a. Die Egoisten (1853), 50 Years Ago (1859), Zwei Gmädige Frauen (1860), Herz und Welt (1862) and Falkenrode (1870), books that were also published with great interest by Empress Augusta or Duke Ernst II (Saxony -Coburg and Gotha) . In the year he died, his work The Philosophy of the Unconscious was published.

The great role model for Struensee was the British novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton , whom Struensee certainly did not reach as an author. He was considered a dignified and popular entertainment writer, wrote social novels as well as historical novels. In his work he also dealt with scientific and legal topics as well as activities of his own biography as a student and administrative officer.

Struensee only became economically successful and known to a larger audience from July 1860, when his literary works appeared as feature novels in the Kölnische Zeitung . He also wrote articles for other newspapers and the like. a. for the Hannoversche Courier and the Schlesische Zeitung , for the latter in particular reviews of contemporary fine literature . Struensee was also the chairman of the Wroclaw branch of the German Schiller Foundation for many years .

family

He married Ida Josefine Imhoff (1808–1886) in Cologne on August 24, 1831. The couple had five children:

  • Berta Josephine Henritte Friederike (1833–1887) ⚭ 1852 Mortimer Wendt († 1892), district court director
  • Franz Rudolf Karl (1834–1888), Prussian major general ⚭ 1869 Elisabeth von Kraewel (* 1851), a daughter of major general Karl von Kraewel
  • Rudolf Friedrich August Otto (1826-1836)
  • Ernestine Emma Franziska (1838–1839)
  • Klara (1841–1897) ⚭ Berthold Stoepel († 1899), police lieutenant

Fonts

  • Collected Writings. 18 vols. Trewendt, Breslau 1867–1868.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gustav von Struensee  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of the bearers of the Saxon-Ernestine House Order and medals of the dukes provided by the Thuringia archive portal.
personal data
SURNAME Struensee, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Struensee, Gustav Karl Otto von (full name); Gustav vom See (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifenberg in Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1875
Place of death Wroclaw