Heinrich Würzer

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Heinrich Würzer (born January 28, 1751 in Hamburg , † July 27, 1835 in Berlin ) was a German political publicist. He is counted among the "German Jacobins ".

Life

Würzer attended the Johanneum in Hamburg and studied theology in Göttingen from 1772, but switched to law and philosophy. From 1774 to 1779 he was an educator in the service of the Hanoverian ambassador in Vienna , Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden . In 1780 he received his doctorate in Göttingen and taught Romance philology as a private lecturer. From 1782 to 1788 he was a private teacher in Hamburg.

From 1788 Würzer stayed in Berlin and criticized the Prussian religious policy in a paper, which led to a sensational process. From 1790 to 1793 he ran a private school in Berlin and moved to Altona in 1793 . In that year he published the Revolution Catechism , in which he transferred the demands of the French Revolution to Germany. In 1794, Würzer published a political weekly, the Historisches Journal , in which he defended the politics of the radical Yakabin in France. After five issues, the magazine was banned. In 1795 he founded a new magazine under the pseudonym "Misocolax", New Hyperborean Letters or Political Träumereyen, ideas and stories from my cousin's wallet , in which he continued to justify Robespierre's radical policy, which has now ended . In 1796, Würzer published another magazine, Der Patrioten Volksredner . In it he called for a revolutionary popular uprising in Germany. He took somewhat more moderate positions in 1797 in his book Freimütige thoughts über political and religious subjects , in which he praised the conditions in Denmark (to which Altona belonged).

Würzer moved to Hamburg in 1802, where he ran the school of a Masonic lodge in the following years. Then he founded a business school in Altona. In 1827 he went back to Berlin, where he died in 1835.

Works

  • Comments on the Prussian religious edict of July 9th. Along with an appendix about freedom of press . Berlin (actually Leipzig) 1788.
  • Würzer's trial before the Royal Court of Justice in Berlin, along with the same appeal to the enlightened public . Altona 1793.
  • Revolutionary Catechism . Nauk, Berlin, 1793. Reprint Scriptor-Verlag, Kronberg / Ts. 1977, ISBN 3-589-15047-5 .
  • The Revolutionary Tribunal portrayed itself in the great trial of Brissot and his co-defendants. Lemgo 1795.
  • The real truth. At the instigation of the writing: Hamburg's best luck not from the outside . Hamburg 1801 (published anonymously).
  • Hans-Werner Engels (ed.): A stroll in Altona (1801-1804). Wohlleben, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-88159-048-X (compilation of publications in the Hamburg and Altona magazine 1801-1804).

literature

  • Walter Grab: Democratic currents in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein at the time of the first French republic . Christians, Hamburg 1966, pp. 145 ff. And 171 ff.
  • Walter Grab: North German Jacobins. Democratic aspirations at the time of the French Revolution . Europ. Verlags.-Anst., Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • Walter Grab : Würzer, Heinrich . In: Biographical Lexicon on German History . Edited by Karl Obermann , Heinrich Scheel , Helmuth Stoecker a . a. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1967, pp. 512–513.
  • Walter Grab: Life and Works of North German Jacobins . Metzler, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-476-00240-3 .
  • Walter Grab: Jacobinism and Democracy in History and Literature . Lang, Frankfurt / Main 1998, ISBN 3-631-33206-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Würzer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1835
Place of death Berlin