Hermann Rollett

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Hermann Rollett, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1864
Hermann Rollett

Hermann Rollett (born August 20, 1819 in Baden near Vienna ; † May 30, 1904 there ) was an Austrian poet of the Vormärz , museum director, local politician , art writer and local researcher .

Childhood, youth and education

Hermann Rollett was the twelfth child of the Baden doctor Anton Rollett (1778–1842) and his second wife Josepha nee. Anger (1794–1874) was born. He grew up in a wealthy, middle-class family, attended the city school in Baden from 1824 to 1831, then the Piarist high school in Vienna. Several encounters with Beethoven , whom he met around 1825 in the presence of Nannette Streicher , were formative for him . He wrote memoirs about it and also brought together traditions about Beethoven's stays in Baden.

His father had planned for him a career as a surgeon and involved him in operations and autopsies. He did not follow this request and began to study philosophy, aesthetics, the arts of education and art history in 1837.

As a result, he decided on pharmacy, completed a pharmacy apprenticeship in the Badener Landschafts-Apotheke from September 1838 to October 1839 , then in the Viennese pharmacy in the Dorotheahof, then studied pharmacy in Vienna until 1842 .

In 1845 he became an honorary member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar .

Poetry and emigration

Rollett published his first poetry on October 16, 1837; his poem An Grillparzer was published in the Wiener Allgemeine Theaterzeitung , with praise from his father. In 1842 he published the song wreath collection . After publication of the spring messengers from Austria in 1845 he had to leave Austria , lived in various small German states, monitored there and repeatedly deported from 1851 to 1854 in Switzerland .

return

December 1854 he returned to Baden, where he lived for a year. In 1857 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1860 to 1862 he studied pharmacy again in Vienna. In his hometown of Baden he became a school councilor in 1870 and head of the city ​​archive in 1876 . As a local councilor and from 1873 as a deputy mayor, he was also active in local politics.

His wife was Meta Rollett b. Scheidlin (around 1833 to 1919), with the establishment of the Patriotic Women's Aid Association - Baden Branch , 1878, its vice-president. He was the uncle of the physiologist and histologist Alexander Rollett (1834-1903).

Works

  • Wreaths of songs , Vienna 1842
  • Heralds of spring from Austria , Jena 1845, 2nd edition 1849
  • Traveling book by a Viennese poet , Frankfurt 1846
  • Fresh songs , 2nd edition, Ulm 1850
  • A forest fairy tale from our time , Leipzig 1848
  • Battle songs , Leipzig 1848
  • - (Ed.): Republikanisches Liederbuch , Leipzig 1848
  • Dramatic poems , Leipzig 1851 (3 volumes, including Thomas Müntzer ) 1851
  • Jucunde , Leipzig 1853, 6 songs set to music by Clara Schumann 1853 (op. 23)
  • The fair , 12 chants (with music by Franz Abt ), Schleusing 1854
  • Heroes and legends , St. Gallen 1854
  • Poems. Selection , 2nd edition, Leipzig 1866
  • Revelations , Vienna 1869
  • Beethoven in Baden. Communicated for the celebration of December 17, 1870 , Baden: Grätz 1870 - 2nd supplemented edition Vienna: Gerold 1902
  • Narrative seals , Leipzig 1872
  • The three masters of Gemmoglyptics Antonio, Giovanni and Luigi Pichler . A biographical and art-historical account , Vienna 1874
  • Contributions to the chronicle of the city of Baden near Vienna , Baden 1880–1900
  • The Goethe images, represented biographically and historically , Vienna 1882
  • My memory of Beethoven , in: Kastner's Wiener Musikalische Zeitung , Vol. 2, Volume 2, No. 45 of September 21, 1886, p. 318f.
  • Fairy tales from life , Prague 1894
  • Encounters. Memorial sheets (1819–1899) , Vienna 1903
  • Mein Lebensabriß (1862) , from the estate ed. by Paul Tausig, Baden 1908

literature

Web links

Commons : Hermann Rollett  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Hermann Rollett †. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 44/1904 (XXV. Volume), June 1, 1904, p. 4. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt.
  2. ↑ Lt. Gravestone at the parish cemetery in Baden.
  3. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 108-110.
  4. ↑ Hermann Rollett, An Grillparzer, when I saw his dramatic fairy tale “the dream, a life” , in: Allgemeine Theaterzeitung and original newspaper for art, literature, music, fashion and social life , ed. by Adolf Bäuerle , vol. 30, no.206 of October 16, 1837, p. 837 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Local messages. (...) Ovations for Dr. Hermann Rollett. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , No. 47/1881 (Volume I), November 19, 1881, p. 6, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bbb.
  6. ↑ Biography (PDF; 169 kB) Austrian Academy of Sciences
  7. ↑ History of the Red Cross - Baden district office roteskreuz.at ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.roteskreuz.at
personal data
SURNAME Rollett, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet of the Vormärz, art writer and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden near Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1904
Place of death Baden near Vienna