Johann Andreas Karl Hildebrandt

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Johann Andreas Karl (Christoph) Hildebrandt (born April 13, 1763 in Halberstadt , † November 25, 1846 in Eilsdorf in Saxony ) was a German novelist.

Life

Hildebrandt was initially a collaborator at the Martinsschule in Halberstadt, from 1794 second preacher in Weferlingen and then until his death preacher in Eilsdorf. His son Friedrich Wilhelm Hildebrandt (1811-1893) also took up the profession of preacher. He was one of the prolific writers . Dozens of novels, some of them historical, as well as numerous knight and horror stories arose from his fertile imagination . The necrology notes from him that “during his long life he made the Basse bookstore in Quedlinburg its notoriety almost entirely by himself” . The bookstore mentioned is the publishing house founded by Gottfried Basse , in which most of Hildebrandt's works were published.

reception

In Wilhelm Hauff's satirical sketch "The Books and the Reading World", a servant for his rule, a countess with a penchant for horror novels, is looking for reading material in the lending library:

"Ghost story?" Asked the little librarian, looking around, "can it also be a knight's story? The spirits are all borrowed. "
“Yes, just something really gruesome, she likes that,” replied the servant, “like the last time, the black ruins or the underground prison; We liked that very much. "
"Is he reading too?" Asked the little man with astonishment.
"Afterwards, when the Countess has finished a volume, we'll read it in the serving room."
"Well; Does he prefer the ghost castle, the resurrection in the vault of death, or Hildebrandt's fiery sword of vengeance? "" So the choice hurts me, "he replied; »What kind of beautiful books they must be! Nu - this time I will take the fiery sword of vengeance; keep the ghost lock for me next time. "

Two of the three titles mentioned are novels by Hildebrandt (namely “The black ruins or the underground prisons of the Barbara Eremita Monastery” and “The Helfenstein Castle or the fiery sword of revenge”; “The ghost castle or the resurrection in the death vault” is a work of his namesake Theodor Hildebrandt). For Hauff, Hildebrandt was the typical representative of the horror novel writer of his time.

Works

Although the following list shows almost 100 titles, it cannot claim to be exhaustive. For some works it is unclear whether they are new editions with a changed title.

  • Augusta Du Port, or story of an unfortunate woman (1798/99, 2 vol.)
  • Gustav Wildheim (1799)
  • Eduard Nordenpflicht (1800, 3 vol.)
  • Family scenes (1800, 2 vols.)
  • Adolph or The Happy Consequences of a Misstep (1801)
  • Story of a persecuted person (1802, 2 vols.)
  • The winter evenings (1802)
  • Wilhelm Muller. A story in letters (1805)
  • Robinson's colony. A sequel to Campe's Robinson the Younger (1806)
  • Papers from my life as a field preacher (1807, 3 vols.)
  • Daniel Fuchs, the great statesman. A satyrical novel (1815)
  • Horror scenes from the life of the unfortunate Rosaura Morano during the bloody and devastating war of Emperor Napoleon in Spain (1815, 2 vols.)
  • Hannchen's story (1816)
  • The eighteenth of October or the iron cross (1816, 3 vols.)
  • The Colonie on St. Helena (1817, 2 vols.)
  • The Negro Slave (1817, 2 vols.)
  • The Hermit on Svalbard (1818)
  • The black ruins or the underground prisons of the Barbara Eremita monastery (1818, 2 vols.)
  • The Shipwreck (1818)
  • The secret of the covenant (1818, 3 vol.)
  • The Hussar (1819)
  • Helfenstein Castle or the fiery sword of revenge (1819, 2 vols.)
  • Brömser von Rudenstein or the death warning (1820, 3 vol.)
  • Maximilian, Prince of Neuwied (1820, 2 vol.)
  • The bankruptcy, the bad post and other tales and tales (1820)
  • The theater tailor (1820, 3 vols.)
  • Maria the girl of the Danielshöhle (1820)
  • Fernando Lomelli (1820, 3 vol.)
  • The von Mannteufel family (1820, 3 vol.)
  • Karl Tellheim and Minna von Barnhelm. A warlike painting from the time of Frederick the Great (1821, 3 vols.)
  • Black Pictures from Prehistory (1821)
  • Der Klausner im Schwarzwalde (1821, 2 vol.)
  • The veil (1821, together with H. Müller)
  • Kuno von Schreckenstein or the prophetic dream figure (1821, 3 vols.)
  • Fedor and Athanasia or the nights of horror in the torture prisons of the 7 towers of Constantinople (1822, 4 vols.)
  • Die Todtenhügel (1822, 2 vol.)
  • The slave in the Anatolis desert (1822, 3 vol.)
  • The ghosts of the Schauerhöhle or the miraculous flower (1822)
  • Ivan and Fedora or the abducted woman (1823, 2 vol.)
  • The ancestor or the ghost in the cliff (1823, 3 vols.)
  • Historical-romantic gallery of strange incidents from the history of famous wars (1823, 2 vols.)
  • Knight's Revenge and the Vehme (1824)
  • The mountain spirit of the Harz Mountains (1824)
  • The court of justice or the invisible superiors (1824, 3 vol.)
  • The Ursulines or the confession in the hour of death (1824, 2 vols.)
  • The chambers of misfortune or the tested (1824, 3 vols.)
  • Rollino, the terrible robber captain (1824, 3 vols.)
  • The Night Adventure (1824)
  • Kunz von Kaufungen or the robbery of a prince (1825)
  • The Murder on the High Altar (1825, 2 vol.)
  • The holy oak and other stories from the Middle Ages (1825)
  • Agathe or the oath (1825, 2 vol.)
  • Tonni, or the gypsy girls (1825, 2 vols.)
  • Ferdinand von Waldau and Auguste (1825, 3 vol.)
  • Corsanello, the terrible pirate (1825, 3 vol.)
  • Götz von Berlichingen, the terrible knight with the iron hand (1826, 3 vols.)
  • Henry the Vogelstellers and the Huns (1826)
  • The terrible crusaders or Guido von Flemmingen and Princess Mathilde (1826, 3 vols.)
  • Auxiliary book for explaining the Sunday and holiday gospels for elementary school teachers (1826)
  • Berthold von der Nidda or the Horde in the Black Forest (1826, 3 vol.)
  • Saladin, Sultan of Egypt (1827)
  • Lilienström and Nordenstern (1827, 3 vol.)
  • The privateer (1827, 3 vol.)
  • History of the Seven Years War (1827)
  • The novice of St. Marienheim (1827, 2 vol.)
  • The Hermit and the Slave (1828)
  • The rocks of Nivrodongk (1828, 2 vols.)
  • Prince Scanderbeg, the insurmountable, or the terrible uprising of the Albanians against the Sultan Amureth (1828, 2 vol.)
  • The Strangest Year in the Life of an Old Warrior (1830, 2 vols.)
  • Interesting adventures of a Turkish slave, or the beautiful favorites of the Sultan of Caramanien (1830, 3 vols.)
  • The Bornholm Bride and The Greek Friend (1832)
  • Knight Franz von Sickingen or Knighthood and Prince's Vengeance (1832, 2 vols.)
  • Drawings from the life of famous adventurers (1833)
  • Strange Adventures of Count Alexander of Cagliostro (1839)
  • Winter on Svalbard (1840)
  • The Prussian Dragoons (1841)
  • Robinson's Last Days (1846)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goedeke 2nd ed. 1898, vol. 6, p. 402.
  2. ↑ http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/mbl/Biografien/1669.htm
  3. ^ New necrology of the Germans. Vol. 26, Part 2 (1848), p. 1017.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Hauff: The books and the reading world. In: Wilhelm Hauff's entire writings. Vol. 18, Stuttgart 1830, p. 23f, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D461DAAAAYAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DRA4-PA23~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D
personal data
SURNAME Hildebrandt, Johann Andreas Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hildebrandt, Johann Andreas Christoph; Hildebrandt, Christoph; Hildebrand, Christoph; Hildebrandt, Theodor; Hildebrand, Theodor; Norden, Carl (pseudonym); Hildebrandt, Karl W .; Hildebrandt, Carl; Hildebrandt, C .; H., C .; Hildebrandt, Johann Andreas Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German novelist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1846
Place of death Eilsdorf (Huy)