Georg von Rosen (poet)
Karl Georg Woldemar Freiherr von Rosen ( Russian Егор Фёдорович Розен ; * 28 November July / 10 December 1800 greg. In Rickholz ; † 11 February July / 23 February 1860 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian poet .
Life
Georg was a member of the noble family von Rosen . His parents were the Russian Rittmeister and heir to the Estonian estates Lückholm , Schottanäs and Kedenpäh Friedrich Gottlieb Freiherr von Rosen (1771–1847) and Helena, nee Freiin von Taube from the Rickholz family (1780–1851).
With his housekeeper he had three children Paul (* 1842), Anna (* 1844) and Vera (* 1850). The latter married the Russian staff captain Josikowski in 1874 .
Rosen initially pursued an officer career in the Imperial Russian Army . From 1819 to 1829 he was in the Elisavetgrad Hussar Regiment. In 1831 he moved to the main staff and in 1834 received his departure as a major .
From 1835 to 1840 he was secretary to the heir to the throne , accompanying Alexander on his trip abroad in 1838 and 1839. As a councilor he was dismissed from this employment in 1840.
From then on he worked as a Russian-speaking writer and poet. For a time he was co-editor of the magazine "Сыне отечества" and in the years 1830 and 1831 to 1833 editor of almanacs . He was a critic and opponent of Gogol and Belinski .
Rosen was buried in the artist cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg.
Works
Rosen published his poems in magazines and almanacs since 1825. He wrote various dramas , in 1835 the tragedy Peter Basmanow , in 1836 the libretto for Glinka's famous opera A Life for the Tsar . Scattered printed correspondence with Bulgarin , Zhukovsky and Shevyrev Pushkin are known , along with other items . He published an autobiography as a foreword in his work The Daughter of Joann's III. (St. Petersburg 1841) and in: AE Rosen: Очерк семейной истории роды баронов Розен (St. Petersburg 1876), pp. 77–80.
literature
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Karl Georg Woldemar von Rosen. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Georg von Rosen . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 23 : Retzius – Ryssland . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1916, Sp. 870 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , vol. 1, Görlitz [1931], p. 227
- Розен, Егор Федорович . In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона , Volume 27, 1899, p. 14 (Russian)
- Розен, Егор (Георгий) Федорович . In: Русский биографический словарь , Volume 16, 1913, pp. 399-403 (Russian)
- 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. 1086 f .
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SURNAME | Rosen, Georg von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Розен, Егор Фёдорович (Russian); Rosen, Karl Georg Woldemar von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian poet |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1800 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rickholz |
DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1860 |
Place of death | St. Petersburg |