Hermann Marggraff

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Hermann Marggraff
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Hermann Marggraff (born September 14, 1809 in Züllichau , Mark Brandenburg , † February 11, 1864 in Leipzig ) was a German writer , journalist and literary critic .

life and work

Hermann Marggraff, son of a district tax collector and younger brother of Rudolf Marggraff , attended grammar school in Züllichau and studied philology and philosophy in Berlin from 1829 to 1833. He passed the grammar school teacher examination in 1835, but decided to give up the teaching profession and live as a freelance writer. Marggraff, who had already written poetry as a schoolboy and student and joined a group of young poets led by Eduard Ferrand in Berlin , took over the Berlin Conversations Journal for poetry, literature and criticism in 1836 , which he edited until 1838. In 1835 he became friends with Theodor Mundt and sympathized with the literary movement of Young Germany . Almost all of the important works by the Young Germans were discussed in detail by him. Marggraff's most important contribution to this socially critical and literary movement is his volume Germany's youngest literary and cultural epoch, published in 1839 . His anthology Political Poems from Germany's Modern Era, published in 1843, also shows how strongly he was interested in a close connection between poetry and politics in the spirit of Vormärz . From Klopstock to the present .

Marggraff went to Leipzig in 1838, where, together with Robert Blum and Karl Herloßsohn, from 1839 to 1842 he published the seven-volume Allgemeine Theater-Lexikon or encyclopedia of everything worth knowing for stage artists, amateurs and theater fans. In 1843 he moved to Munich, two years later to Augsburg. Here he took part in the editing of the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung . In 1847 he became editor of the Deutsche Zeitung in Heidelberg, since autumn 1848 in Frankfurt / M., There, after the Deutsche Zeitung had arrived, he continued to edit the Frankfurter Volksbote for a few weeks . In the summer of 1851 Marggraff moved to Altona, initially working as an editor at the Altonaer Mercur , then in Hamburg at the Staats und Gelehrten Zeitung des Hamburgischen impartial Correspondents . At the end of 1853 he took over the editing of the papers for literary entertainment in Leipzig , which he held until his death. Regardless of his permanent editorial positions, Marggraff has been writing and corresponding for many other newspapers restlessly for over thirty years and, in addition to his journalistic work, has tried to keep himself and his family afloat with numerous books that he edited or wrote. Marggraff had been married since 1843 and when he died left behind nine daughters in Leipzig, all of whom were still 'unsupervised'.

Marggraff was a member of the Balduin zur Linde Masonic Lodge in Leipzig. Encouraged by his lodge brother and master of the chair, Karl Christian Kanis Gretschel , he published a German translation of the Regius manuscript in 1842 .

He was sitting at the criminal table in Leipzig , on whose tabletop he is mentioned by name.

Works

  • Poems . Zerbst 1830 (together with his brother Rudolf Marggraff).
  • Books and people . Bunzlau 1837.
  • Emperor Heinrich IV. Tragedy in five acts. 1837.
  • Germany's youngest literary and cultural epoch. Characteristics. Leipzig 1839.
  • The pigeon from Amsterdam. Tragedy in five acts. (Via Dyveke Sigbritsdatter .) Leipzig 1839.
  • Justus and Chrysostom, Pech brothers. Times and lives. Leipzig 1840, 2 volumes.
  • Johannes Mackel. Colorful fate of an ugly but honest skin. Leipzig 1841, 2 volumes.
  • Elfride. Tragedy in five acts. (Printed as a manuscript.) Altenburg 1841.
  • Travel manual . Hamburg 1853–1856, 4 volumes.
  • Ernst Schulze . Described from his diaries and letters as well as from communications from his friends. Leipzig 1855. (= Ernst Schulze: Complete poetic works. 3rd edition. Part 5th).
  • Fritz Pouch. A Münchhauseniade. Frankfurt am Main 1856 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • Poems. Leipzig 1857.
  • Schiller's and Körner's friendship bond. Introduction to the 2nd inexpensive edition of Schiller's correspondence with Körner. Leipzig 1859.
  • Ballad Chronicle. Leipzig 1862.
  • JK Wezel , the eccentric from Sondershausen. (1837). Along with marginalia from the more recent times by Bernhard Langer. Fulda 1997 (first published in the Berliner Conversations-Blatt 1836).

He also published as a translator and editor:

  • James Orchard Halliwell : Prehistory of Freemasonry in England. German by Hermann Marggraff. (Leipzig 1842).
  • A treasure trove of German humor. (Leipzig 1860, 2 volumes).

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Hermann Marggraff  - Sources and full texts