Heinrich von Kügelgen
Heinrich von Kügelgen (* August 26 . Jul / 7. September 1836 greg. In Tallinn , † January 10 jul. / 22. January 1860 greg. In Tartu ) was a Baltic German poet .
life and work
Heinrich Carl von Kügelgen came from a Baltic German aristocratic family . He was born in the Estonian capital Tallinn (German Reval ). Kügelgen worked as a doctor.
Kügelgen became known to a larger audience primarily as a poet. His most famous lyric works include
They appeared posthumously in Jeannot Emil Freiherr von Grotthuss ' anthology, Das Baltische Dichterbuch .
The posthumously published volume Memories from the Past is also dedicated to Heinrich von Kügelgen's work . Songs by an Estonian who was immortalized early on, published in 1888.
Heinrich von Kügelgen died at a young age in Tartu ( Dorpat ) in Livonia of typhus .
literature
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 785 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Entry at EEVA ( Digital Text Collection of Older Literature Estonia )
Individual evidence
- ^ Jeannot Emil Freiherr von Grotthuss (Ed.): The Baltic poet book. A selection of German poems from the Baltic provinces of Russia with a literary-historical introduction and biographical-critical studies. 2nd Edition. Reval : Franz Kluge 1895
- ↑ http://www.ester.ee/record=b2233275
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kügelgen, Heinrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tallinn |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1860 |
| Place of death | Tartu |