Karl Adolf Suckow

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Karl Adolf Suckow (born May 27, 1802 in Münsterberg , † April 1, 1847 in Breslau ) was a German writer and Protestant theologian .

Life

Suckow grew up in Münsterberg, where his father was the rector of the community school. From 1816 he attended the grammar school in Schweidnitz and from 1819 the Elisabet grammar school in Breslau. From 1820 to 1823 he studied theology and philosophy at the University of Breslau . During his studies in 1820 he became a member of the old Breslau fraternity Arminia . After graduation, he was a private tutor in Schildau near Hirschberg and in Schmiedeberg in the Giant Mountains for six years .

In 1829 his first literary work appeared, the novella The Love Stories , for which he chose the pseudonym "Posgaru", which was borrowed from the Greek. Some reviewers suspected that Ludwig Tieck was hiding behind it . The novellas Germanos (1830) and Idus (1833) followed.

Suckow received his doctorate in 1829, followed by his habilitation as a private lecturer in 1830. In 1832 he was appointed preacher of the Court Church in Breslau , and in 1833 he became an associate professor of theology at the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Breslau. With the magazine Der Prophet (1842–1845) published by him , he intervened on the part of church liberalism in the church political disputes of his time.

Suckow was also director of the institution for the deaf and dumb in Breslau.

Suckow's thoughtful introduction to his translation of Byron's verse drama Manfred (1839) is of particular importance . At the end of this, he appealed to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to set Manfred to music as a melodrama. Instead, Suckow's writing inspired Robert Schumann to write his melodrama Manfred op. 115 (1848). Schumann had already read a novella by Suckow in 1832.

Publications

  • Theses theologiae , Breslau 1829.
  • The love stories , Breslau: Max 1829.
  • Germanos. Novella , Breslau: Max 1830.
  • Idus , in: Urania , Leipzig 1833
  • Commemorations of the Christian church year in a series of sermons , Breslau: Max 1838.
  • Byron's Manfred. Introduction, translation and notes. A contribution to the criticism of contemporary German dramatic art and poetry , Breslau: Max 1839 ( digitized version ).
  • Protevangelium Jacobi, ex cod. ms. Venetiano descripsit prolegomenis, varietate lectionum, notis criticis instructum , Breslau 1840.
  • Letter to Dr. JB Baltzer , 2nd edition, Breslau 1844 ( digitized version ).
  • ABC of the Evangelical Church Constitution , Breslau 1846 ( digitized version ).
  • Sermon on Sundays Sexagesimei d. February 15, 1846, to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther's in the court church in Breslau , Breslau: Gosohorsky 1846.
  • Judgment on the Waatland preachers after carefully inspecting all the files , Breslau 1847.

literature

  • Ludwig Falk: Words spoken at the grave of Carl Adolph Suckow, died April 1st, buried April 4th 1847 , Breslau: Gosohorsky 1847.
  • Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Foundlings. On the history of the German language and poetry , Volume 1, Leipzig 1860, pp. 340f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz Brümmer:  Suckow, Karl Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 107.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 679-681.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: p. 285.
  2. ↑ Robert Schumann: Diaries , Volume 1, ed. by Georg Eismann , Leipzig 1971, p. 380.
  3. ↑ Cf. on this: Johann Baptist Baltzer: The Christian beatitude dogma, according to Catholic and Protestant confessions. At the request and provocation of the gentlemen: Consistorialrath and Superintendent Falk, Professor Lic. Suckow and Senior Krause. Kupferberg, Mainz 1844.
personal data
SURNAME Suckow, Karl Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Munsterberg
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1847
Place of death Wroclaw