Gisbert von Vincke

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Gisbert von Vincke

Karl Gisbert Friedrich Freiherr von Vincke (born September 6, 1813 in Ickern , † February 5, 1892 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German poet lawyer and Shakespeare researcher.

origin

Gisbert von Vincke's parents were the future Westphalian President Ludwig von Vincke and his wife Eleonore von Syberg (1788-1826). His brother Georg (1811-1875) was an important German administrative lawyer.

Life

He was born on the noble seat of Haus Ickern in Castrop-Rauxel. After attending school in Dortmund and Bielefeld, he studied law in Heidelberg and Berlin from 1830 to 1834 . In 1831 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . Friedrich Hecker , Albert Sprengel and Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal belonged to his student environment in Heidelberg . Vincke's fellow student Theodor Hoffmeister (1812–1834) drew a portrait of him as a youth in 1832.

After a brief court activity, he switched to administration. He passed his examination for the higher administrative service in 1842, then worked first in the Potsdam government council and from 1846 as a member of the government of the Westphalian provincial administration in Münster . In 1860 an eye disease forced him to retire early. Von Vincke first moved to Frankfurt am Main and in 1868 to Freiburg im Breisgau , where he devoted himself to his literary work until the end of his life and traveled extensively.

Von Vincke's contemporary importance is based primarily on his plays and writings on the staging of William Shakespeare's plays . For many years he was President of the German Shakespeare Society . The poet Fritz Reuter and Gustav zu Putlitz , the general manager of the Karlsruhe court theater, were among his circle of friends .

family

He was married twice. His first wife Antonie von Monsterberg (* 23 August 1826 - 23 March 1857), daughter of the Prussian Lieutenant General Karl von Monsterberg , he married on September 28, 1848 in Münster. The marriage had a daughter:

  • Asta Wilhelmine Ottonie Ottilie Sidonie Karoline (born May 21, 1852)
⚭ 1875 Baron Otto Marschall von Bieberstein († February 21, 1879)
⚭ 1881 Witold von Ubisch, Rittmeister
⚭ 00000Leopold Georg Henning von Kameke, Rittmeister (born January 15, 1850)

He married Auguste von Dungern (born November 24, 1832) widow of Wilhelm von Leonhardi on July 10, 1860 in Frankfurt . The couple had several daughters:

  • Marie (* 7 August 1861; † 24 January 1890) ⚭ 1887 Count Johann Heinrich Ernst von Rantzau (* 16 September 1847; † 13 March 1908)
  • Anna (born September 26, 1866; † July 31, 1947) ⚭ 1895 Johann Heinrich Ernst von Rantzau (born September 16, 1847; † March 13, 1908)
  • Hermine Charlotte Eugenie Bertha Emilie (born September 29, 1864 - † June 27, 1954) ⚭ Wilhelm Benjamin Johann Gerhard Karl von Ledebur (* May 7, 1859 - † May 25, 1930) District Administrator

Works (selection)

Plays
Pastimes. Comedy in 1 act , Grote, Hamm 1856
The first exam. Comedy in 1 act , Wagner, Freiburg 1873
If you look, you will find - not. Comedy in 4 acts , Wagner, Freiburg 1876
Antony and Cleopatra. Tragedy , Wagner, Freiburg 1876
Life, a dream. Acting in 5 acts. With free use by Calderón , Wagner, Freiburg 1883
Writings on Shakespeare
Shakespeare on the German stage of our day. Garrick's stage adaptation of Winter's Tale. In: Yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society, Volume 8, 1872
Shakespeare's dubious plays. In: Yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society, Volume 9, 1873
Shakespeare and Garrick. Arrangements and performances of Shakespeare's plays from the death of the poet to the death of Garrick. In: Yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society, Volume 11, 1875
As you like it on stage. In: Yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society, Volume 14, 1878

literature

  • Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Vincke, Gisbert Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 752-756.
  • Hans-Joachim Zimmermann, The poems of Queen Maria Stuart - Gisbert Vincke, Robert Schumann and a sentimental tradition. In: Archives for the Study of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures. Volume 214, Volume 129, Volume 2 half year 1977, pp. 294-324.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of baronial houses 1888. Eighth and thirtieth year, p. 893f.

Web links

Commons : Gisbert von Vincke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Gisbert von Vincke  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 112 , 314
  2. ↑ Cf. Dieter Lent: A Brunswick student portrait album from the University of Heidelberg with an unknown youth portrait of the revolutionary leader Friedrich Hecker. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein , Braunschweig 1998, Volume 79, pp. 139–166 (portrait of Vinckes on p. 153.)
  3. ^ Leonhardi, Friedrich Philipp Wilhelm Freiherr von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on April 23, 2017 .
  4. ^ Anna von Vincke at familysearch.org
  5. ^ Johann Heinrich Ernst von Rantzau German Rantzau's, Branch IV
  6. ^ Wilhelm von Ledebur
personal data
SURNAME Vincke, Gisbert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vincke, Karl Gisbert Friedrich Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet lawyer and Shakespeare researcher
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Castrop-Rauxel
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1892
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau