Johann Ulrich von König
Johann Ulrich von König (born October 8, 1688 in Esslingen , † March 14, 1744 in Dresden ) was a German writer , opera librettist and court poet .
Life
King attended high school in Stuttgart and then studied in Tübingen theology and in Heidelberg Jura . He settled in Hamburg , where in 1715 he and Barthold Heinrich Brockes , Michael Richey and Johann Albert Fabricius founded the Teutschübende Gesellschaft for the care of the German language and literature and wrote libretti for the opera on the Gänsemarkt , which u. a. were set to music by Reinhard Keizer and Georg Philipp Telemann . From 1717 he stayed in Leipzig and Weißenfels until he became court poet and employee of Johann von Besser at the Dresden court of Augustus the Strong in 1719 .
Here he first promoted Johann Christoph Gottsched , with whom he later fell out, and was in close contact with Johann Jakob Bodmer . He wrote successful comedies - the wrong world was still played in 1770 - and, as a court poet, panegyric glorification writings on his employer, such as the epic August in the camp .
Johann Ulrich von König was married to the singer, instrumentalist and composer Regina Gertrud Schwarz, the stepdaughter of the poet and musician David Kellner . Their son was called Friedrich August.
After Besser's death in 1729, King succeeded him as master of ceremonies and councilor. He was a foreign member of the Berlin Academy since 1728 and was in 1740 by August III. , who after the death of Emperor Charles VI. acted as imperial administrator, ennobled. On March 14, 1744, the "Saxon Horace" died of the consequences of typhus .
Works
- The Austrian generosity or Carolus V , 1712
- Theatrical, Sacred, Mixed, and Gallant Poems , 1713
- The virtue crowned (poems), 1714
- Fredegunda (play), 1715
- Innocence Triumphant through Generosity and Faith or The Victorious David (Oratorio), 1716
- The Roman Generosity (Play), 1716
- The Faithful Alceste (Opera), 1719
- Poetic Ideas , 1719
- Heinrich der Vogler (Singspiel), 1719
- Rhea Silvia (Singspiel), 1720
- A shepherd poem on the high birth of a chur.-Saxon. Printzen [...] , 1720
- The patient Socrates (opera), 1721
- Cadmus (play), 1725
- The wrong world (comedy), 1725
- Sanco or Die Siegende Großmut (Singspiel), 1727
- August in the camp (epic), 1731
literature
- Gerhard Dünnhaupt : "Johann Ulrich von König (1688-1744)", in: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 4. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, pp. 2385–2406. ISBN 3-7772-9122-6
- Steven D. Martinson: "German Poetry in Transition: Canitz , Besser , and the Early Enlightenment", in: Michigan Germanic Studies 6 (1980), pp. 40–57
- Max Rosenmüller: Johann Ulrich von König - A contribution to the literary history of the 18th century. (Dissertation) Leipzig 1896
- Helmut Christian Wolff: "Johann Ulrich König", in: Music in Past and Present , Vol. 7 (1958), 1364 ff.
- Erich Schmidt : König, Johann Ulrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 516-518.
- Angelo George de Capua: King, Johann Ulrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 342 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Ulrich von König in the catalog of the German National Library
- Digitized prints by Johann Ulrich von König in the catalog of the Herzog August Library
- Article in the Saxon Biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kenneth Sparr: The art of Silvius Leopold White in the mirror of contemporary literature. In: Guitar & Laute 9, 1987, No. 6, pp. 15-17; here: p. 16 f.
- ↑ Kenneth Sparr: The art of Silvius Leopold White in the mirror of contemporary literature. In: Guitar & Laute 9, 1987, No. 6, pp. 15-17; here: p. 15 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | King, Johann Ulrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1688 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Esslingen am Neckar |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1744 |
| Place of death | Dresden |