August Apel
Johann August Apel (born September 17, 1771 in Leipzig ; † August 9, 1816 there ) was a German lawyer and writer .
Life
August Apel was born as the youngest son of the lawyer and Mayor of Leipzig Heinrich Friedrich Innocentius Apel . After graduating from the St. Thomas School at Leipzig , he studied from 1789 to 1793 law at the University of Leipzig and the Leucorea in Wittenberg and graduated in 1795 with a doctorate Dr. jur. from. In Leipzig he then established himself as a lawyer ; In 1801 he was elected to the city council.
At first he wrote classicist dramas , later more and more horror and ghost stories . Apel became known with his ghost book , which he edited together with Friedrich Laun . His school friend Friedrich Kind took Apel's novella Der Freischütz from the ghost book the material for large parts of the libretto of the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber .
The publication of Apels Metrik sparked an escalating scientific dispute. His main opponent was his former teacher Gottfried Hermann . But before the dispute was resolved, August Apel died on August 9, 1816 in Leipzig.
The writer and founder Theodor Apel is the son of August Apel.
Works
- The Last Judgment
- Polyidos (1805; digitized version )
- Die Aitolier (with appendix "Aforisms about rhythm and meter" pp. 156–188; 1806; digitized version )
- Kallirhoe (1806; digitized version )
- Kunz von Kauffung (tragedy 1809)
- Ghost Book (edited with Friedrich Laun; 5 volumes 1810-1815; template for Der Freischütz in Volume 1)
- Cicaden (poems; 3 volumes 1810-1811; volume 1 volume 3 )
- Metrik (2 volumes 1814-1816; Vol. 1 Vol. 2 )
- Wunderbuch (edited with Friedrich Laun and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué ; 3 volumes 1815-1817)
- Timeless (short stories and poems 1817; digitized version )
literature
- Klaus Günzel: The German Romantics. Artemis, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-7608-1119-1 , p. 7f
- Hermann Anders Krüger: Pseudo-romanticism. Friedrich Kind and the Dresdner Liederkreis. A contribution to the history of romanticism. H. Haessel , Leipzig 1904
- Bruno Sauer: Apel, Johann August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 322 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Heinrich Schmidt: Johann August Apel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 501 f.
- Otto Eduard Schmidt : Fouqué, Apel, Miltitz. Contributions to the history of German romanticism. Dürr, Leipzig 1908
- Hermann Ziemcke: Johann August Apel . Adler, Greifswald 1933
Web links
- Literature by and about August Apel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about August Apel in the German Digital Library
- Works by August Apel in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Edited letters from and to August Apel in the web service correspSearch of the BBAW
- Apels novella Der Freischütz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Kind: Freischützbuch . Retrieved June 7, 2020. Göschen, Leipzig, 1843, page 78
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Apel, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Apel, Johann August (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1771 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1816 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |