Karl Eggers (writer)

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Karl Eggers
Karl Eggers

Karl Friedrich Peter Eggers (born June 7, 1826 in Rostock , † July 18, 1900 in Warnemünde ) was a German poet.

Life

Karl Eggers - brother of the art historian Friedrich Eggers - was born as the fifth child (of eight) of the Rostock wood and building materials dealer Christian Friedrich Eggers (1788-1858) and his wife Sophie Lierow (1793-1850). After attending the grammar school in his hometown, he studied law in Rostock, from 1846 in Leipzig and 1847 in Berlin. He passed the bar exam in 1850 and settled in Rostock. Here he passed the examination for the administration of the judiciary and tried, since he wanted to get married, to get a job as mayor and city judge. In 1852 he received his doctorate in both rights from the University of Rostock. However, the Mecklenburg Ministry of Education denied him his habilitation. He was a member of the old Berlin fraternity Germania (1844) and the Corps Misnia Leipzig (III) (1845).

Carl Eggers (1847)

After graduating as Dr. iur. he worked as a lawyer and court president. In 1854 he was elected as a senator in the Rostock city council. In 1856 he resigned all offices and obligations in Rostock and went to Italy because of a serious illness, where he stayed for two years and studied art history. He published essays on art history topics in the magazine Deutsches Kunstblatt, edited by his brother Friedrich Eggers .

In 1861 he took up residence in Berlin. Here he cultivated connections to writers and artists such as Emanuel Geibel , Paul Heyse , Adolf Wilbrandt , Otto Roquette , and Theodor Fontane . There was a special connection to Heinrich Seidel , for whom Eggers established the connection to the Cotta publishing house in Stuttgart. Heinrich Seidel lived for many years in Karl Eggers' house on Karlsbade 11. In Berlin, Eggers was very committed to the Gabelsberger shorthand .

In 1895 Eggers moved with his family to Rostock. Here, too, he developed a lively activity in the Rostock Art Association in the Antiquities Association and in the Low German Association for Rostock and the surrounding area, of which he was an honorary member. His publications of Low German poetry (including Tremsen ), which he edited together with his brother, received great attention from specialist circles, but they were not good business for the publisher. The third edition was published in 1890 by the Berlin publisher F. Fontane & Co. Eggers was a member of the Academic Association in Berlin, whose member, the sculptor Ludwig Brunow , created a now lost Eggers bust.

Services

Karl Eggers achieved importance in the completion and publication of the five-volume biography of the important sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch, left unfinished by his brother .

literature

  • Tremors. Low German poetry in the Meklenburger dialect. From Friedrich and Karl Eggers. Ed. With Sprachl. Erl. U. Complete dictionaries by Karl Nerger. Hoffmann, Breslau 1875
  • Theodor Fontane: The correspondence. With Fontane's letters to Karl Eggers and Friedrich Eggers' correspondence with Emilie Fontane. Edited by Roland Berbig . de Gruyter, Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-11-014987-7
  • To the criticism of the German shorthand systems. Schroeder, Berlin 1865
  • The shorthand in schools, along with materials for comparing the Gabelsberger and Stolze systems. Presented to the royal Prussian Ministry of Culture as a memorandum from the Gabelsberger Stenographers Association in Berlin by Karl Eggers. Schroeder, Berlin 1863
  • Art historical hikes in and around Merano. Lecture by Karl Eggers. Peterswalden 1879.
  • Klaus Groth and the Low German poetry. Habel, Berlin 1885
  • Correspondence between Christian Daniel Rauch and Ernst Rietschel . Edited by Karl Eggers. 2 volumes. F. Fontane, Berlin 1890–91
  • The Rauch Museum in Berlin. Directory of his collections with a historical preliminary report and a summary of Rauch's life. F. Fontane, Berlin 1892
  • Obituary in the Deutsche Stenographen-Zeitung , 15th year (1900), No. 15–16 of August 5th
  • Karl Schröder: Karl Eggers. A memorial sheet. In: Johrbok. Passed by the general Plattdütschen Verband. Volume 2, Berlin 1902, pp. 142–153.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 236.
  • Willi Passig: They shouldn't be forgotten. Low German book of poets for Mecklenburg . Elmenhorst / Vorpommern: Edition Pommern 2013, ISBN 978-3-939680-14-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Schröder: Karl Eggers. A memorial sheet , in: Johrbok. Passed by the general Plattdütschen Verband . Volume 2, Berlin 1902, pp. 142–153.
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Vol. I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 236
  3. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910 127 /316
  4. ^ Obituary in the Deutsche Stenographen-Zeitung , 15th vol. (1900), No. 15-16 of August 5th
personal data
SURNAME Eggers, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eggers, Karl Friedrich Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1900
Place of death Rostock-Warnemünde