Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel

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Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel (born September 14, 1779 in Bautzen , then Budissin , Markgraftum Oberlausitz ; † July 29, 1819 in Bamberg ) was a German writer of the early Romantic period .

Life

Wetzel, the son of poor cloth makers, attended grammar school in Bautzen from 1791 to 1799, studied medicine from 1799 to 1801 in Leipzig and from 1801 to 1803 in Jena , then philosophy. In the summer of 1803 he left Jena without having finished his studies and changed his place of residence several times in the following years. He lived in great poverty. At the beginning of 1805, Wetzel finally had the money he needed to complete his studies. He received his doctorate in medicine in Erfurt. Wetzel moved to Dresden in 1805, where he tried to stay afloat with journalistic works and public lectures. On May 10, 1806 he married Johanna Heuäcker. In 1809 he became editor of the " Franconian Mercury " in Bamberg. He died in Bamberg and was buried in the cemetery on Upper Stephansberg. His lost but well-known grave was given a grave slab again in 1971 by the Remeis Circle.

Many of his works were published anonymously, pseudonyms were e.g. B. Theophrast , Ysthamarus . In the “Letters of the Man in the Moon” he advocates a religious rather than a philosophical worldview; the organic view of the world passes over into a Christian world redemption.

Wetzel was acquainted with Kleist , for whose journal Phoebus he contributed articles in 1808/09, had been friends with Gotthilf Heinrich Schubert since they were studying together, and later in Bamberg with Carl Friedrich Kunz and ETA Hoffmann .

Works

  • Stanzas. Lübben: Gotsch (in Commission), 1802
  • Cleon, the last Greek, or the League of Mainotts. According to modern Greek. Ronneburg u. Leipzig: Schumann, 1802
  • [Anon .:] Seven letters from the Man in the Moon to me. Heliopolis, 1808
  • Writing samples. Myths - romances - lyric poems. Bamberg: Kunz , 1814
  • Big Stomach Prologue. Leipzig u. Altenburg: Brockhaus, 1815
  • Joan of Arc . Tragedy in 5 acts. Leipzig u. Altenburg: Brockhaus, 1817
  • Hermannfried, last King of Thuringia. Tragedy in 5 acts. Berlin: Realschule bookshop, 1818
  • Collected poems and bequests. Ed. By Z. Funck [d. i. Carl Friedrich Kunz ]. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1838

Wetzel used to be one of the authors who were considered as possible authors of the anonymous novel Die Nachtwachen des Bonaventura (1804). Franz Schultz tried in his book The Author of the Night Watch of Bonaventura (Berlin, 1909) to prove that Wetzel was the author. Since Jost Schillemeit's investigation of Bonaventura, the author of the "Nachtwachen" (Munich, 1973), however, literary scholarship has been of the opinion that this work can be ascribed to Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann .

literature

  • Fritz Heinrich Ryssell: Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel within the intellectual and political renewal of Germany in the age of romanticism. Darmstadt: Wittich, 1939
  • Hans Trube: Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel's life and work. With special attention to his poetry. Berlin: Ebering, 1928. (German Studies. 58.)
  • GW Groke: A few things about Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel. In: Famous writers of the Germans. Descriptions based on self-perception, partly also by famous contemporaries from life. Vol. 1. Berlin: Vereins-Buchhandlung, 1854, pp. 376–392
  • Z. Funck [d. i. Carl Friedrich Kunz]: From the life of two poets: Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann's and Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel's. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1836. (pp. 173–315)

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel  - Sources and full texts

notes

  1. ^ Reprint in the series: Die Bibliothek von R ***; Karolinger, Vienna 2005 ISBN 3854181159
personal data
SURNAME Wetzel, Friedrich Gottlob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wetzel, Karl Friedrich Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German romantic writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Budissin
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1819
Place of death Bamberg