Heinrich Karl Friedrich Peucer

Heinrich Karl August Peucer (born September 26, 1779 in Buttstädt near Weimar , † January 29, 1849 in Weimar) was a German lawyer , philologist , diplomat , author and translator .

Life

The son of a Weimar official attended Weimar grammar schools from 1796 to 1799. He studied in Gottingen and Jena jurisprudence . There he met Christoph Martin Wieland . In 1805 he was an advocate in Weimar Hof . A year later after the French invasion after the battle of Jena and Auerstedt in 1806 he worked as a translator for the French command office in Weimar and in 1807 he became secretary of the Weimar embassy in Paris . In 1809 Peucer became a secret secretary in Weimar and around 1811 an assessor in the Saxon-Weimar state government. This was followed by the appointment to the government council or the secret government council. In 1815 he became director of the Weimar Upper Consistory , of which he was appointed president in 1838. In these functions it was inevitable that Peucer came into contact with Goethe and also in private communication. Numerous conversations with Goethe about literature and theater plays, etc. a. handed down to Iffland . Peucer also wrote under the pseudonym Edmund Ost . He was in official communication with the Weimar general superintendent Johann Gottfried Herder .

In addition to his own poetry, Peucer made a name for himself with translations by Voltaire .

In 1812 he was appointed a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt .

Works

Old and Modern Heroism , 1817. OCLC 892813246

Alexander in Persia, opera libretto , Weimar 1819.

Weimar leaves , Leipzig 1834. OCLC 38626682

An evening at the theater. Dramatic studies , Leipzig 1835. OCLC 1035975849

Editorships

Landsturmblatt für Weimar , ed., 1817–1819. OCLC 605532073
Classical Theater of the French , ed., 4 vols., 1819–1823. OCLC [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ So z. b. on October 1, 1822, Fritz Bergemann : Eckermann Conversations with Goethe , 11th edition, Frankfurt am Main-Leipzig 2015, p. 488.
↑ Goethe's Conversations, Biedermann Edition , ed. by Wolfgang Herwig, Munich 1998. (five volumes).
↑ For example the comments on Karl Sondershausen : To Matthisson (epilogue of my journey) , in: Journal for literature, art, luxury and fashion . Eighth and thirtieth volume. Year 1823, p. 825.

personal data
SURNAME	Peucer, Heinrich Karl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Peucer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, philologist, diplomat, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	September 26, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buttstädt
DATE OF DEATH	January 29, 1849
Place of death	Weimar

[1] So z. b. on October 1, 1822, Fritz Bergemann : Eckermann Conversations with Goethe , 11th edition, Frankfurt am Main-Leipzig 2015, p. 488.

[2] Goethe's Conversations, Biedermann Edition , ed. by Wolfgang Herwig, Munich 1998. (five volumes).

[3] For example the comments on Karl Sondershausen : To Matthisson (epilogue of my journey) , in: Journal for literature, art, luxury and fashion . Eighth and thirtieth volume. Year 1823, p. 825.