Jens Immanuel Baggesen

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Jens Baggesen
Göttingen memorial plaque for Jens Baggesen

Jens Immanuel Baggesen (born February 15, 1764 in Korsør , Zealand; † October 3, 1826 in Hamburg ) was a Danish writer , translator and supporter of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution . He published some of his works in the original in German. During his lifetime he was revered as the Danish Wieland .

Life

Baggesen was the son of very poor parents and had to work as a copyist at the age of twelve. Baggesen, who was ailing throughout his life, was able to complete the school in Slagelse thanks to a scholarship for theology and study in Copenhagen and Göttingen from 1785. Even during his studies, the enlightened student took on the middle name Immanuel out of admiration for Immanuel Kant .

In 1785 Baggesen went public with comical stories in the style of Christoph Martin Wieland , the overwhelming success enabled his lifelong passion, travel, around 1789, when he initially traveled through Germany, Switzerland, France and Great Britain together with Friederike Brun . In Paris he joined the Freemasons Association . The official reason for these educational trips was Baggesen's health. In fact, however, he wanted to leave Copenhagen because the libretto for the opera “Holger Danske”, a collaboration with the composer Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen , failed spectacularly with the audience.

On this trip, Baggesen met his lifelong friend Johann Heinrich Voss and in 1790 he married Sophie von Haller, the granddaughter of the scientist Albrecht von Haller . With her he had two sons: Carl Albrecht Reinhold Baggesen and August Ernst Baggesen. On the return journey to Copenhagen in the late summer of 1790, Baggesen was invited to Weimar and Jena to join the circle around Christoph Martin Wieland and Friedrich Schiller . Here he learned u. a. also know Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and Johann Christoph Bode , who introduced him to the Order of Illuminati . Baggesen joined the order under the name Immanuel .

Grave site in the park cemetery Eichhof Kiel

Baggesen was appointed provost in 1796 and school councilor and theater director in 1798. He gave up these offices after a few years and moved to Paris in 1797 after the death of his wife. There he married a second time on 1799. In 1811 he accepted a position at Kiel University and taught there until 1813 as a professor of Danish language and literature.

In 1813 Baggesen returned to Copenhagen, where his critical articles against Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger sparked a public literary feud that lasted until 1820. That year his second wife died. He himself was impoverished and had to serve a prison term because he could not pay a debt. Threatened by depression throughout his life, the artist reacted to the blows of fate with temporary mental derangement.

Recovered, he went to Bern, but again traveled a lot and restlessly. In addition to visits to Paris and Weimar, he sought in vain relief from his illnesses in the health resorts of Teplitz, Karlsbad and Marienbad. On the way home after a cure, Baggesen died on October 3, 1826 in Hamburg in a Masonic hospital. The joint tomb for him and Carl Leonhard Reinhold is in the Eichhof park cemetery near Kiel.

In addition to love poetry and enthusiastic odes to the French Revolution, Baggesen published primarily verse narratives influenced by Christoph Martin Wieland and Ludvig Holberg . In Denmark, Jens Immanuel Baggesen is counted among the great storytellers of the 18th and early 19th centuries. His best-known work is the travel story "The Labyrinth", in which he describes his impressions during a trip from Copenhagen to Basel in 1789, the year of the French Revolution. His work is rather unknown in Germany, although Baggesen has always advocated peaceful coexistence and cultural exchange between Germans and Danes.

Works (selection)

Eponyms

In March 2000 the asteroid (4088) Baggesen was named after him.

literature

  • Karin Hoff: The discovery of the spaces in between. Literary projects of the late Enlightenment between Scandinavia and Germany , Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-703-9 .
  • Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg : Jens Baggesen. A Danish poet as a professor in Kiel. In: Encounters with Kiel. Gift of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität for the 750th anniversary of the city. Edited by Werner Paravicini. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992, ISBN 3-529-02722-7 , pp. 373-376.
  • Horst Nägele : German idealism in the existential category of humor , Neumünster 1971.
  • Adalbert Elschenbroich:  Baggesen, Jens Immanuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 538 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • August E. Baggesen: Jens Baggesen , Copenhagen 1.1849 - 4.1846.
  • Otto E. Hesse: Jens Baggesen and German Philosophy , Leipzig 1914.

Web links

Commons : Jens Immanuel Baggesen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Baggesen adopted the middle name “Immanuel” out of admiration for the philosopher Immanuel Kant . See. The corresponding personal record of DNB , accessed on 6 March 2009.
  2. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 39649
personal data
SURNAME Baggesen, Jens Immanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baggesen, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Korsør
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1826
Place of death Hamburg