Karl Heinrich Hermes

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Karl Heinrich Hermes (born February 12, 1800 in Kalisch , † October 19, 1856 in Stettin ) was a German journalist and publicist .

Life

Karl Heinrich Hermes studied at the universities of Berlin and Breslau theology and philosophy and was in 1822 Wroclaw with a thesis on the Asia Minor Galatians entitled specimen Galaticarum Rerum doctorate . During his studies in 1821 he became a member of the old Breslau fraternity Arminia . As a “demagogue and former fraternity member”, however, he was prevented from continuing his academic career in Breslau, so that he went to Stuttgart in 1824 and wrote for the publications of the Cotta'sche Verlagbuchhandlung . He completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1828. However, he could not stay there and pursue his university career, as he had to go to Inland magazine because of critical articles about Bavaria and a theater scandal.

In 1832 he therefore moved to Braunschweig and worked there for the German national newspaper from Braunschweig and Hanover . Furthermore, in 1836, as the successor to Joachim Heinrich Campe at Vieweg , Hermes took over the publication of a series for children's and youth publications, to which he added two volumes of the title Latest Collection of Strange Travel Descriptions . In addition to his numerous book publications published by George Westermann in Braunschweig, he worked in 1840 for the Kölnische Zeitung and later for the Berliner Staatsanzeiger and the Norddeutsche Zeitung .

Selection of works

Early works

  • Rerum Galaticarum specimen. Dissertation at the University of Wroclaw, 1822.
  • About Shakspeares's Hamlet and his evaluators Göthe, AW Schlegel and Tieck. Stuttgart and Munich, 1827.
  • The reasons and consequences of the decline and fall of Poland. Munich, 1831, previously published in the magazine Das Auslands .
  • Napoleon, his character and his time. Leipzig 1831, translation of the work Analysis of the character of Napoleon Bonaparte by William Ellery Channing with an introduction and notes by Hermes, DNB 572590865 .

Works published by Vieweg

  • Latest collection of strange travelogues. Volumes 38 and 39 from the series All children's and youth publications. 1836.
  • James Justinian Morier : Aejischa, the Virgin of Kar. 1834, translated by Hermes 1837.
  • The discovery of America by the Icelanders in the tenth and eleventh centuries. 1844, DNB 58091559X .

Works published by George Westermann

  • Charles Dickens : Life and Adventures of Nicolaus Nickleby . Translated by Hermes, seven volumes, 1838–1839.
  • History for the past twenty five years. Two volumes, 1845, DNB 560568525 .
  • Glimpses from time into time: marginal notes on the daily history of the last twenty-five years. 1845.
  • General history from the beginning of historical knowledge down to our times: for thinking history lovers. 1846, series continued in the succession of Karl von Rotteck .
  • Recent history from the foundation of the Holy Covenant to the election of Louis Napoleon. Five volumes, 1855.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilmont Haacke:  Hermes, Karl Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 672 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ This and some of the following bibliographical information were added to the handwritten alphabetical main catalog ( Memento of the original of June 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Taken over to the Saxon State Library until 1973. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / image.slub-dresden.de
personal data
SURNAME Hermes, Karl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalisch near Poznan
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1856
Place of death Szczecin