Karl Adolf von Wachsmann

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Karl Adolf von Wachsmann (born September 27, 1787 in Grünberg in Silesia , † August 28, 1862 in Dresden ) was a German writer.

Life

Karl Adolf von guard was the son of a retired captain of cavalry .

He received his school education in Breslau . At the age of 15, Wachsmann entered Prussian military service . After the campaign from 1806 to 1807 , he said goodbye and joined the Baden army .

In 1809 he participated as a lieutenant in the brigade of Colonel Karl von Stockhorner and Starein (1773-1843) and the Beaumont division in the campaign against the Tyroleans . In 1810 he marched with a battalion of the 4th Baden Regiment to Spain , from where he returned to his regiment's garrison in Mannheim the following year . When his regiment was transferred to the Stettin garrison at the end of 1811 , he took his leave.

He lived from 1812 to 1818 as a squire on Kreidelwitz near Gramschütz in the Glogau district . After the sale of his estate, he took up residence in the Buschvorwerk estate he had acquired near Schmiedeberg and worked partly as the first district deputy of the Hirschberg district and partly as a writer .

In 1824 he worked for the partner , in 1825 for the evening newspaper and the newspaper for the elegant world, and in the years that followed he expanded his activities to include a dozen other magazines.

In 1833 he moved to Dresden and stayed there until the end of his life.

In 1836 he received a price of 30 ducats from the editors of the fiction magazine Der Telegraph in Vienna for his novella Die Währinger . The award committee included Johann Ludwig Deinhardstein , Michael Leopold Enk von der Burg and Juda Jeitteles . According to Johann Ludwig Deinhardstein, the prize was awarded for the novella, as the artistically rounded work of a man of varied education, of taste and unusual knowledge of people and history .

In 1837 he founded Lilien - paperback of historical-romantic stories , which he published from 1838 to 1848 and 1850; In 1830 he began to publish his collected stories and novellas , 93 of which had appeared in 37 volumes by 1849.

He wrote a travelogue to Heligoland with a historical and topographical treatise, as well as a description of the ethnographic and natural history of the island.

He was friends with the writers Ludwig Tieck , August von Witzleben , Carl Weisflog , Theodor Hell , Friedrich Gustav Schilling , Gotthilf August von Maltitz , Christoph August Tiedge , Johann Friedrich Kind and George von Brunnow .

Karl Adolf von Wachsmann was married to a Silesian relative.

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  1. ↑ Didaskalia: Leaves for Spirit, Mind and Publicity . Bath. Post, 1862 ( digitized in Google Book Search [accessed February 26, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Wachsmann, Karl Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wachsmann, Carl Adolf von; Wachsmann, C. von; Wachsmann, Carl von; Wachsmann, Carl A. von; Wachsmann, Carl Adolph von; Wachsmann, Karl von; Wachsmann, Karl A. von; Wachsmann, K. von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünberg , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1862
Place of death Dresden