Horace Herwegh

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Horace Herwegh (born December 28, 1843 in Paris , † April 23, 1901 in Paris.) Was a German-Swiss-French engineer . He gained literary fame through the correspondence between his father Georg Herwegh and the President of the Federal School Council Johann Karl Kappeler.

Life

Horace Herwegh was born as the eldest son of Georg Herwegh and Emma Herwegh during their exile in Paris. After the suppression of the Baden Revolution , the family fled to Switzerland and settled in Zurich in 1851. Here he attended the Polytechnic and joined the Corps Rhenania , where he was received in June 1862. Because of an offense against the ban on duels, Herwegh received only a strict admonition in the summer of 1863, since he had always had good academic results up to that point. On December 22nd, 1863, however, he was relegated "because of duel and carelessness".

This reprimand from the Polytechnic resulted in a first letter from Georg Herwegh to the President of the School Council, Kappeler, in which he denounced the accusation of carelessness and the poor quarterly grades as an act of revenge by the school director Pompejus Bolley for the fact that his son had never revealed the name of his counterpart. He reproached the federal school board that he “only has power, u. had not [had] the right to trample underfoot all the principles of humanity as he did, and To release a student who has five years of good certificates with such defamation [...] from the institution. "

The relegation was not withdrawn, the grades were not changed. Nevertheless, Georg Herwegh wrote a second letter to the school council president, in the style of a political pamphlet with the statements that it was honorable of his son "not to denounce his opponent in a duel like a cowardly schoolboy to his school pasha" and "I hope it will be mine." Son will continue to hold onto all bolleys in the world like this in the future, ”ends.

Horace Herwegh continued his studies in Berlin, while conditions at the Polytechnic worsened over the next few months and culminated on August 2, 1864 with the students moving to Rapperswil. At the end of 1865, on the advice of his mother, he took a job as an engineer in the USA. He left Switzerland on September 27, 1865. After returning from America he had jobs in various places in Europe. On September 20, 1870, he married Aurelie von Grymaenz in Zagreb . The son Camille-Horace was born on September 4, 1873 in Donnersmark . He later settled with his family in Paris and took French citizenship in 1884.

literature

  • Barbara Rettenmund, Jeannette Voirol: Emma Herwegh: the greatest and best heroine of love. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich, 2000, ISBN 3-85791-346-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biographical data in Bretagne-Nord from May 11, 1922  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.4 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / ouestfrance.cd-script.fr  
  2. ↑ a b 150 years of the Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855–2005 , Braunschweig 2005, p. 304.
  3. ↑ Michael Gasser: From the duel with the weapon to the duel with the pen. Georg Herwegh in dispute with the school council president . ETH Library / ETHeritage, August 20, 2010, accessed on May 10, 2017.
  4. ^ Georg Herwegh: Works and Letters: Critical and Commented Complete Edition , Volume 6: Letters 1849–1875. Edited by Ingrid Pepperle. Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld, ISBN 978-3-89528-700-8 .
  5. ^ State Archives of the Canton of Zurich: Passports issued in Zurich to America and Australia 1848–1870 . Evaluation of passport controls from 1848–1870 (Zurich State Archives, PP 38.42–63). Edited by Hans Ulrich Pfister. As of November 30, 2005, p. 31.
personal data
SURNAME Herwegh, Horace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herwegh, Georg Horace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss-French engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1901
Place of death Paris