Julian Schmidt

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Julian Schmidt

Heinrich Julian Schmidt (born March 7, 1818 in Marienwerder , West Prussia province , † March 27, 1886 in Berlin ) was a German literary historian .

biography

Julian Schmidt was the son of a calculator, an official in the financial administration. From November 1, 1827 he attended the royal. Protestant high school in his hometown and received his school-leaving certificate on March 30, 1837. He then studied history and philology at the Albertus University in Königsberg , with Karl Rosenkranz , among others . He finished his studies on July 9, 1840 with a doctorate to become Dr. phil. In the sheets of memory (Schmiedeberg) a student portrait watercolor of him has been preserved.

Schmidt completed his probationary year as a senior teacher in Königsberg and in 1843 switched to teaching at the Luisenstädtische Realschule in Berlin. He gave up this post in 1847 and settled in Leipzig , where he worked for Ignaz Kuranda's literary and political newspaper Die Grenzbote . Together with Gustav Freytag , Schmidt took over the editing from July 1848 and made it the most influential organ of programmatic realism . Schmidt's numerous literary critical articles on Friedrich Hebbel , Karl Gutzkow and others were the subject of extremely controversial discussions. This weekly newspaper was also of political importance because over time it also became the mouthpiece of the large constitutional or moderately liberal party of the 1950s, the so-called Gothaer .

At the end of 1861 Schmidt left Die Grenzboten and moved to Berlin for the Berliner Allgemeine Zeitung . There he worked until the end of 1863 had to stop its publication. It was founded by Georg von Vincke and it was also financed by his friends in the Old Liberal Party .

In 1865 Schmidt sold his share in the Grenzbote to Max Jordan . From this time on he only occasionally appeared in public with articles, including in Ernst Dohm's and Julius Rodenberg's Salon for Literature, Art and Society or Heinrich von Treitschke's Prussian Yearbooks .

On his 60th birthday, Schmidt received an honorary salary of 1,500 marks from Wilhelm I in 1878 . Over the next few years Schmidt withdrew more and more into private life and died three weeks after his 68th birthday on March 27, 1886

reception

In contrast to this very benevolent assessment (according to Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , 1888, 4th edition, slightly revised linguistically) stood opinions within the German social democracy . Franz Mehring described Schmidt as the king of the Sudel family . Ferdinand Lassalle wrote in his pamphlet Herr Julian Schmidt der literary historian, published in 1862 , with Setzer- Scholien , that people like Schmidt had "got hold of some noble expressions from the writings of thinkers and scholars and with the help of them developed their own kind of spread 'educational language' which represents a true triumph of modern education and shows where art can take it. According to the laws of fictional routine, it is a kaleidoscopic jumbled up and shaken number of words that make no sense, but for a hair look as if they gave one and an astonishingly deep one! "

Works (selection)

  • History of Romanticism in the Age of Reformation and Revolution. Studies in the Philosophy of History. Herbig, Leipzig 1847. 2 volumes. ( Digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 )
  • History of the German National Literature in the 19th Century . Leipzig 1853. 2 volumes. ( Digitized volume 1 )
  • History of French Literature since the Revolution . 2. reworked. Ed. Leipzig 1873–74 2 volumes. ( Digitized 1st edition 1858, Volume 1 ), ( Volume 2, 1858 )
  • History of German literature since Lessing's death . 4th edition Leipzig 1858 (3 vols., Former title: Jena and Weimar ). 1855. ( digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 ), ( volume 3 )
  • History of intellectual life in Germany from Leibniz until Lessing's death, 1681-1781 . Leipzig 1861–1863. 2 volumes. ( Digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 )
  • Overview of English literature in the 19th century . Sondershausen 1859.
  • Schiller and his contemporaries . Leipzig 1859. ( digitized version )
  • The need to form a new party . Berlin 1866. ( digitized version )
  • Images from the spiritual life of our time . Leipzig 1870–74 (4 vols.)
  • 19th century portraits . Berlin 1878.
  • History of German literature from Leibniz to our time. Vol. 1-5. Berlin: Hertz 1886-1896. ( Digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 ), ( volume 3 ), ( volume 4 ), ( volume 5 )

literature

Monographs

  • Norbert Otto: Julian Schmidt - a search for clues . Olms-Verlag, Hildesheim 2018.
  • Ferdinand Lassalle : Mr. Julian Schmidt, the literary historian. With Setzer Scholien . Röthing Verlag, Leipzig 1872.
  • Alex Köster: Julian Schmidt as a literary critic. A contribution to the development of realism in the 19th century and the history of criticism . Diss. Univ. Munster 1933.
  • Bernd Peschken: Attempt at a Germanist ideology criticism. Goethe, Lessing, Novalis, Tieck, Hölderlin, Heine in Wilhelm Dilthey's and Julian Schmidt's ideas . Metzler, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-476-00250-0 .

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SURNAME Schmidt, Julian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Heinrich Julian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienwerder , West Prussia Province
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1886
Place of death Berlin