Jeannot Emil von Grotthuss

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Jeannot Emil von Grotthuss (born April 5, 1865 in Riga , † August 31, 1920 in Berlin ) was a German publicist , literary critic and poet .

Life

Jeannot Emil von Grotthuss was a member of the Courland family of the Barons von Grotthuss . He was a son of Rittmeister Carl von Grotthuss and initially received private lessons on his parents' estate Welikan (Grotthuss himself used the spelling "Wellikan" in a poem) not far from the Kurland- Lithuanian border. Then he attended the Gouvernements-Gymnasium in Riga and the Nikolausgymnasium in Libau .

After graduation in 1883, he went to Berlin and joined the editorial team of the Deutsches Adelsblatt . In addition, he enrolled in 1885 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität for philosophy, history and literary studies. But more than his studies he devoted himself to his literary interests, so that after a year he left the university without having obtained an academic degree. Together with Rudolf von Mosch , he founded Deutsche Post in Berlin in 1886 . Illustrated bi-monthly publication (from 1888 with the title addition “for Germans of all countries”) as a magazine for Germans abroad . When the Oberpressverein, the censorship authority for the Baltic Sea Governments , banned the distribution of Deutsche Post in the Russian Empire in 1887 , Grotthuss temporarily resigned from the editorial office. In 1890 he took over the editorial office again until the Deutsche Post was closed the following year.

From then on he worked as a freelance writer and journalist. The Baltic Poet's Book was published in 1894 , a collection of German-language poetry from the Baltic region, from the Livonian rhyming chronicle to the 1880s. In it Johannes Bobrowski came across the biography and poems of Casimir Ulrich Boehlendorff ; this is how his story Boehlendorff came about . In 1898 Grotthuss founded the magazine Der Türmer, a monthly for mind and spirit . He has written reviews and criticisms for several literary magazines , particularly on poetry. From 1904 he published the series “Books of Wisdom and Beauty” for the Greiner & Pfeiffer publishing house in Stuttgart. Since the 1890s he lived in different places: in Berlin, in Stuttgart, in Riga and in Bad Oeynhausen .

Grotthuss suffered from hearing loss from his youth. This increased in old age and led to the fact that he withdrew more and more in his last years and finally became lonely.

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Grotthuss' writings are shaped by his convinced, sometimes combative Protestantism and by his German-national attitude. With his often polemically pointed reviews and essays and above all with his life's work, the “Türmer”, he had an influence in the conservative, monarchist-minded bourgeoisie. As a literary critic, poet and narrator, he opposed naturalism , as well as Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy . His novel The Blessing of Sin (1897) was part of the widely read literature of the upper and middle classes. In his book From German Twilight (1909) he reflected pessimistically on the - according to Grotthuss - areligious, "hypocritical" and anti-social norms of society.

Fonts

  • In tune with the times. Seals . Kymmel, Riga 1885.
  • The Baltic poet book. A selection of German poems from the Baltic provinces of Russia with a literary-historical introduction and biographical-critical studies. Franz Kluge, Reval 1894 ( digitized on the DSpace pages of the University of Tartu ).
  • The blessing of sin. Story of a person . Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1897.
  • Problems and characters. Studies on the Literature of Our Time . Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1898 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  • Gottsuchers Wanderlieder. Seals . Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1898 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  • The half. A novel from our time . Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1901.
  • From German twilight. Silhouettes of a transitional culture . Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1909.

literature

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Jeannot Emil von Grotthuss: Wellikan . In: Ludwig Riemer (ed.): Jumping fountains. A harvest of blossoms from modern German poetry . Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1914, p. 81.
  2. ↑ a b Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra horns Lexikon the German literature of the Baltic and St. Petersburg , Vol. 1: A-G . de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, p. 502.
  3. ^ Art. Deutsche Post, 1887–1891 . In: Thomas Dietzel, Hans-Otto Hügel : German literary magazines 1880–1945. A repertory . Vol. 1: “A travers les Vosges” - “German-Nordic yearbook” . Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10646-7 , pp. 295-296.
  4. ^ Günter Hartung: Work analyzes and criticisms . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86583-135-4 , pp. 375–402, here pp. 375–376.
  5. ^ Friedrich Scholz: The literatures of the Baltic States. Their creation and development . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1990, ISBN 3-531-05097-4 , p. 96.
  6. ^ Association of German Balts (ed.): The German Balts. Address book for the Balts living outside their homeland . Jonck & Poliewsky Verl. Riga 1907, p. 21.
  7. ↑ See e.g. B. Jeannot Emil von Grotthuss: The erotic problem in literature . In: Supplement to the Baltic Monthly . Born in 1897, pp. 11-24.
  8. ^ Jeannot Emil von Grotthuss: Under the sign of Nietzsche . In: Ders .: From German twilight. Silhouettes of a transitional culture . Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1909, pp. 9-18.
  9. ^ A b Peter Glotz: Emil von Grotthuss . In: New German Biography. Vol. 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, p. 171.
personal data
SURNAME Grotthuss, Jeannot Emil von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grotthuss, Jeannot Freiherr Emil von Grotthuss (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1920
Place of death Berlin