Heinrich Leuthold
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Heinrich Leuthold (born August 9, 1827 in Wetzikon , † July 1, 1879 in Zurich ) was a Swiss poet , translator and journalist .
life and work
The son of a farm worker and milk dealer studied law at the universities of Zurich , Basel and Bern , a. a. with Wilhelm Wackernagel and Jacob Burckhardt . He broke off his studies and stayed in southern France, Italy and finally in Munich , where he joined the poet society Die Krokodile . He associated there with well-known poets such as Emanuel Geibel and Paul Heyse , but suffered from the lack of audience approval for his poetry. From 1865 he lived permanently in Munich, where he also worked as a journalist. In 1879 he died in the Burghölzli mental hospital in Zurich , to which he had been admitted in 1876 because of psychological problems.
Leuthold mainly created natural poetry in the tradition of German Romanticism and Biedermeier . According to the literary historian Peter von Matt , Leuthold was particularly influenced by Friedrich Hölderlin . He also wrote a great epic (Penthesilea) and worked as an editor and translator.
He found his final resting place in the Rehalp cemetery in Zurich .
Works
- Poems
- Proverbs and Epigrams
- Penthesilea, epic verse in nine songs
- Hannibal, fragmentary verse epic in five rhapsodies
- expenditure
- Poems . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1910.
- Collected seals in three volumes. Introduced and after the manuscripts ed. by Gottfried Bohnenblust. 3 volumes. Huber, Frauenfeld 1914 (digitized volume 1 , volume 2 , volume 3 )
literature
- Councilor Luck: Leuthold, Heinrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Günter Häntzschel : Leuthold, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 385 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Peter von Matt: The ink-blue confederates. About literary and political Switzerland . Hanser, Munich 2001.
- C. Menzel: Leuthold, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 497 f.
Web links
- Works by Heinrich Leuthold in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Heinrich Leuthold in the Internet Archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leuthold, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss poet, translator and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wetzikon |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1879 |
| Place of death | Zurich |