Heinrich Schunck

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Hans Heinrich Schunck (born July 17, 1816 in Lübeck ; † October 15, 1896 there ) was a German businessman and writer.

Life

Heinrich Schunck was a son of Nicolaus Schunck (born June 1, 1786 in Eilsdorf , † May 28, 1858 in Lübeck). The father worked as a so-called " betting servant ", which corresponded to a lower official in the trade police. His mother was Maria Henriette Friederica, née Paasch (born June 30, 1786 in Lübeck; † July 13, 1859 there).

From Easter 1824 Schunck visited the Katharineum in Lübeck . Here he met Ferdinand Röse , Wilhelm Mantels and Emanuel Geibel , with whom he had a close friendship. Together with these and other people, Schunck founded the “Poetic Association”. The members wrote their own texts, which they presented and discussed. Due to the low income of his parents, Schunck was unable to study. So he ended his school career at the Katharineum at Easter 1831. Then he completed a commercial apprenticeship.

In 1840 Schunck acquired Lübeck citizenship. On November 19 of the same year he married Friederika Luise, b. Werdelburg (born May 13, 1820 in Lübeck, † April 21, 1874 ibid), whose father Johann Georg Gotthard Werdelburg was a painter. The couple had a son who died in childbirth in 1853.

From 1840 Schunck headed the general agency of the Aachen-Munich fire insurance . Shortly before his death, he passed the agency on to a successor.

Working in the field of the arts

Schunck was enthusiastic about literature and theater and had great literary knowledge. He had a sense of linguistic form, judged confidently and tastefully. In the history of Lübeck literature he can be found several times as an original personality.

Schunck belonged to the Schiller Foundation , the Lübeck branch of the German Schiller Foundation and at the time the most important literary society in the city. In 1863/64 he took over the office of treasurer, in 1869 he was a member of the foundation's board of directors. The relationship with Emanuel Geibel was particularly important for his reputation in Lübeck society. After he returned in 1868, they spent so much time together that Schunck was referred to as "Geibel's shadow". Geibel kept diaries in which he noted that Schunck had inspired him on daily walks and evening meetings.

Around 1890 Schunck influenced young writers such as Ida Boy-Ed , Ludwig Ewers and Heinrich Mann . In fact, they saw his taste in literature and art as out of date. Nevertheless, he was regarded as an authority to whom they submitted their own works for assessment. Schunck was an idealist and an esthete; he did not like the modern naturalistic and realistic literature that Heinrich Mann studied. Ida Boy-Ed complained that Schunck shared the rejection of Wagner that was widespread in Lübeck in the 1880s .

Works

Schunck did not write any of his own traditional works. According to sources, he created a drama from Judith Gautier's novella "Les cruautés de l'amour", which was seen in Lübeck in 1894 as "André Ivanowitsch".

Other authors gave Schunck space in their works, such as Ida Boy-Ed in her novella “Die Kommode”, in which Schunck can be found with his real name. Ludwig Ewers created one of two main roles in the great Lübeck novel "Die Großvaterstadt" based on Schunck's example. In the Buddenbrooks the painter Sigismund Gosch received Schunck's traits.

estate

From Schunck's estate, the Lübeck City Library received various writings on chess and German literature (13 works in 38 volumes) .

literature

  • Ludwig Ewers : A poet's friend. In: Daheim 43 (1907), p. 50
  • Alken Bruns: Schunck, Heinrich . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, pp. 435–436.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Since he did not take a high school diploma, he is not in Hermann Genzken: The high school graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized ) included.
  2. ^ Report on the administration of the city library in 1897 , in: Annual reports of the administrative authorities of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1897/98. Lübeck: Borchers 1899, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Schunck, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schunck, Hans Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and man of letters
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1896
Place of death Lübeck