Heinrich Kurt Stever

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Heinrich Kurt Stever (* 12. October 1789 in Rostock , † April 21 . Jul / May 3, 1827 greg. In Riga ) was a German lawyer and writer.

Life

Heinrich Kurt Stever was a younger son of the Rostock lawyer Theodor Stever . Until 1804 he attended the high school in Rostock, from 1804 to 1808 the high school Pforta in Schulpforta . On May 10, 1808 he began to study law at the University of Rostock and later moved to Berlin and Jena . From 1812 he studied at the Georg August University of Göttingen and became a member of the Corps Vandalia Göttingen. In 1813 he wrote the appeal to our countrymen together with Carl von Behr-Negendank .

From 1813 to 1815 Heinrich Kurt Stever fought in the Lützow Freikorps .

In 1816 he obtained his doctorate in Rostock. jur. From 1817 Stever worked as a procurator in the Rostock law firm and held legal lectures. Because of his liberal convictions he had to leave Rostock; he traveled to Estonian Dorpat , where in 1819 he received a professorship in Courland law. In January 1820 Stever went to Riga as a lawyer . From 1821 he worked as a private teacher and syndic of the knighthood in Mitau .

Heinrich Kurt Stever was with Philippine Reichard, geb. on May 30, 1800 in Schmarkow, married. She died on November 20, 1881 in Greifswald . Her son Gustav Stever , born in Riga on May 16, 1823, was a history painter .

Works

  • 1813 About French secret police and prisons
  • 1813 poems
  • 1816 Quatuor odas latinae
  • 1819 Ithuna or songs of love
  • 1819 Mithridates or the power of the Eumenide. A tragedy
  • Translation of Hecabe by Euripides and Pygmalion by Rousseau

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Individual evidence

  1. Baptized on October 14, 1789 in St. Marienkirche, ibid.
  2. 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. 9759 .
  3. ^ Enrollment of Heinrich Kurt Stever in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. Erik Amburger database of foreigners in pre-revolutionary Russia at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
  5. Herbert Kater: Pfeifenkopf der Vandalia Göttingen 1811-1813 in: Jahrbuch Einst und Jetzt , Volume 31 (1986), pp. 209-211. (It is listed in the corps inventory on the pipe bowl.)
  6. ^ Johann Friedrich von Recke , Theodor Beise , Karl Eduard Napiersky : General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces of Livonia digitized