Julius Gundling

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Julius Gundling, 1865

Julius Anton Gundling (born March 7, 1828 in Prague ; † May 4, 1890 there ; pseudonyms Lucian Herbert and Julius von Mergentheim ) was a Bohemian writer.

Life

Julius Gundling worked as a writer and journalist from a young age, first as editor of the humorous magazine Rübenzahl , then as an employee of the Prager Morgenpost and finally in 1876/1877 as co-founder, editor and theater critic of the Prager Tagblatt . He also became known as a correspondent for newspapers such as the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung . His black and yellow pictures from Old and New Austria , which he published in this, were later printed in book form. He was also a popular novelist for his time. During his studies he became a member of the Old Prague Fraternity Teutonia in 1848 and of the Prague Fraternity of Markomannia in 1848/49 . Like his father, Gundling completed his legal studies as an iuris utriusque cultor (JuC), which enabled him to take a position as a magistrate in Prague. However, at the age of 35 he retired as a privateer and devoted himself increasingly to literary work.

On February 19, 1852, in Prague, he married Maria Magdalena (Madelaine) Ballasko , the daughter of the Imperial and Royal State Accounting Officer Jakob Ludwig Ballasko . With her he had two daughters, Amalia and Katharina . The latter was one of the first women to study. She studied philosophy at the University of Zurich .

family

Julius Gundling comes from a respected Prague family from the Nuremberg area . In this family , the famous brothers belong Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling and Jacob Paul Baron Gundling .

His father was the Prague citizen and ironmonger Anton Gundling, who is said to have been a respected man due to his generous character and whose house on Wenceslas Square in Prague became a meeting place for the nobility, university professors and journalists, where you can subscribe to the "Augsburger Allgemeine" Newspaper "discussed daily. His brother was the state advocate Eduard Gundling , a well-known professor at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague, who gave German-Czech lectures on music history .

Works (selection)

  • Henriette Sontag. The beginning of the artist's life in pen drawings , 1860.
  • 1830. Novel and History , 1861.
  • 1831 or Poland's last days. Novel and History , 1861–1862.
  • Modern Don Juan. Novel. 1862.
  • Carlo Alberto and Louis Napoleon. Novel and History , 1864.
  • Nikolaus von Metternich. Novel and History , 1866–1868.
  • Up to the Rubicon. Novel from Julius Caesar's youth , 1867.
  • Nikolsburg and its consequences. Historical novel from Austria's most recent times , 1867–1868.
  • The Testament of Peter the Great. Novel and History , 1869.
  • Peaceful journeys in times of war , 1872.
  • Casanova, Chevalier of Seingalt. Roman , 1874.

literature

  • Gundling, Julius. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 107.
  • Roman Freiherr von Procházka : My thirty-two ancestors and their clan groups (Library of Family History Works, Volume 7). Publishing house Degener and Co, Leipzig 1928.
  • Roman Freiherr von Procházka: Physiognomy and phenotype of the Gundlinge . In: Archive for Family Research and All Related Areas , Volume 31, Issue 19, August 1965.
  • Lukas C. Gundling: The ways of the Gundlings to the east: How the Gundlings came from Württemberg to Danzig, Krakow, Prague and Vienna, together with the connection of the Gundlings to the genealogist novel by Procházka , in: Südwestdeutsche Blätter für Familien- und Wappenkunde (SWDB) Volume 34, Stuttgart 2016, p. 93 f.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 272-273.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gundling, The ways of the Gundlinge to the east , SWDB 34 (2016), p. 94 f.
personal data
SURNAME Gundling, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gundling, Julius Anton (full name); Herbert, Lucian; Mergentheim, Julius von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION bohemian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1890
Place of death Prague