Heinrich Zeise (poet)

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Karl Heinrich Theodor Zeise (born April 19, 1822 in Altona ; † January 20, 1914 in Groß-Flottbek ) was a German pharmacist , manufacturer , poet and translator .

Live and act

Heinrich Zeise came from the Zeise family . He was a great-grandson of Heinrich Zeise , who had worked as a pastor at the Heiligengeistkirche in Hamburg-Altona and to whom he dedicated several works from 1851. His father Heinrich Zeise was married to Juliane ( Julie ) Cordts (* July 5, 1798 in Altona; † December 3, 1843). Since 1818 he owned the elephant pharmacy in Altona. Heinrich Zeise himself completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Landsberg an der Warthe from 1838 , which he completed there in 1841 with the examination to become a pharmacist's assistant. Then he went to Copenhagen . In 1844 he received a pharmaceutical exam with distinction in the Danish capital. Zeise went back to his hometown, where his father had meanwhile sold the elephant pharmacy and founded a chemical factory. Zeise worked in his father's company from 1844. After his father died in 1863, Zeise ran the business until 1875, when he sold the company for health reasons.

Heinrich Zeise adored Otto von Bismarck and for this reason lived temporarily in Friedrichsruh until 1876 . In 1880 he moved to Eimsbüttel and in 1900 to Groß-Flottbek, where he died in 1914.

Works

Heinrich Zeise was very interested in literature and wrote a lot. He also worked as a writer. His first works were translations from Danish into German. This included works by Hans Christian Andersen . His first own collection of poems appeared in 1847. Zeise liked to deal with natural poetry, but in 1848 also wrote war songs for the Schleswig-Holstein movement. In 1864 he published the collection of German War and Victory Songs , and in 1871 the battle and war songs . The chants are characterized by national enthusiasm.

Zeise wrote a biography entitled From the life and memories of a north German poet . The work, which can be regarded as significant in terms of cultural history, was published in 1888. Zeise describes in detail his youth in Altona. He also honors scholars and writers from Altona and Hamburg. He had extensive correspondence with Karl Gutzkow , Theodor Storm and Detlev von Liliencron , which were incorporated into the book. One of the last works, pictures of nature and life. A late autumn bouquet was published in 1892 as a volume of poetry. Zeise also worked for many newspapers and magazines. Even after the age of 90 he wrote for the Altonaer Nachrichten .

Zeise, who was almost blind and deaf at the end of his life, received numerous awards.

Publications

  • Hans Christian Andersen: Poems. German by H. Zeise . Naeck, Kiel 1846.
  • War songs from Schleswig-Holstein . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1848.
  • Travel papers from the north . Koebner, Altona 1848.
  • The evolutionary history of our earth, the upheavals which affected the earth's surface, and the new creations of organic structures that took place in separate epochs. Lecture given by H. Zeise at the Altona Citizens' Association in the winter of 1848/49 . Lange, Altona 1849.
  • Fight and sword songs . Schröder & Comp., Kiel 1849. Digitized
  • Newer poems . Schröder & Comp., Kiel 1850. (= Zeises poems. Volume 2)
  • The earth, the plants and the people. Joakim Frederik Schouw . Popular descriptions of nature. Translated from Danish with the assistance of the author by H. Zeise. With the biography of the author of PL Møller and his portrait after Marstrand . Lorck, Leipzig 1851. (2nd edition 1854)
  • HC Örsted: Nature theory of the beautiful . From the Danish by H. Zeise. 2nd edition Kittler, Hamburg 1850. MDZ Reader
  • From my song portfolio. Poems. Uflacker, Altona 1861. (2nd missing and modified edition, Weichelt, Hanover 1883)
  • Battle and war songs . Lipperheide, Berlin 1870. (= For Strasbourg's children! No 22) Digitized
  • Little songs . Uflacker, Altona 1871.
  • From the life and memories of a north German poet. With the portrait and the facsimile Zeises . Rehrer, Altona 1888.
  • Small pictures from nature . Rehrer, Altona 1888.
  • Memory of Sweden . Dresden 1888.
  • Images of nature and life. A late autumn bouquet . Otto Meißner, Hamburg 1892.
  • Six Irish Folk Songs . Set by Wilhelm Rohde. (German by Heinrich Zeise). Raabe & Plothow, Berlin 1899.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Zeise, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeise, Karl Heinrich Theodor (full name); Seize, H. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist, manufacturer, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1914
Place of death Groß-Flottbek