Karl Hillebrand (essayist)

Karl Hillebrand (born September 17, 1829 in Giessen , † October 19, 1884 in Florence ) was a German essayist , journalist , cultural scientist and literary historian .

Life

Karl Hillebrand was the son of the scholar Joseph Hillebrand and the brother of Julius Hubert Hillebrand . With Wilhelm Liebknecht he attended the Landgraf-Ludwigs-Gymnasium . After graduating from high school, like Liebknecht, he began to study law at the Hessian Ludwig University in 1846/47 . He was a fox in Corps Starkenburgia for two semesters . Meanwhile matriculated in Marburg, Liebknecht had to flee in 1847; because, like Liebknecht, he was threatened with arrest because of political activities. Hillebrand moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Hillebrand and Liebknecht moved into the Baden Revolution separately . Hillebrand got involved in the imperial constitution campaign . Like Liebknecht, he was finally imprisoned in the Rastatt fortress and sentenced to death. In their memoirs, both describe this event in detail. They mutually refer to each other without naming the other. When the Baden fortress guards revolted, Hillebrand's sister Maria managed to help her brother and Liebknecht to escape. During the night they reached the Rhine with other inmates, which they could swim through at a shallow spot. On the other bank of the Rhine, they were received by the French gendarmerie, given a small sum of money, and released in the direction of Paris. There they became assistants to Heinrich Heine , for whom they did editing work. A few weeks later, their paths and political views parted ways. Hillebrand renounced politics and converted to the bourgeois camp. Wilhelm Liebknecht returned to Baden and finally emigrated via Switzerland to London, where he lived for about twelve years with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels .

Hillebrand later graduated from the University of Bordeaux . From 1863 he was professor of foreign literatures at the philosophical faculty of the University of Douai . Probably because of the Franco-Prussian War, he resigned in 1870. He then followed his partner Jessie Laussot to Florence . In 1879 he married her. At the age of 55 he died as a freelance writer in Florence, where he found his final resting place.

He knew most of the German-speaking writers and philosophers of his time (including Friedrich Nietzsche ), but also personalities such as Hans von Bülow and corresponded with them. Hillebrand was considered an expert on France and Italy for many years. He was an honorary citizen of the city of Florence. The German Academy for Language and Poetry awards the Karl Hillebrand Prize for essays. His posthumous writings are in the archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Works

History of France from the accession of Louis Philip to the fall of Napoleon III. Gotha: Perthes
- Vol. 1 The Storm and Drang Periods of the July Kingdom (1877)
- Vol. 2 The heyday of the parliamentary monarchy (1879)
- Vol. 3 The July Revolution and its Prehistory (1881)
Unknown essays . Bern: Francke, 1955
Times, peoples and people . Berlin: Oppenheim, 1902
- Vol. 1 France and the French in the second half of the 19th century
- Vol. 2 Wälsches and German
- Vol. 3 From and about England
- Vol. 4 profiles
- Vol. 5 From the century of the revolution
- Vol. 6 contemporaries and contemporary
- Vol. 7 Cultural history

Italia 1.1874 - 4.1877

literature

Hans von Bülow , Letters , Vols. 4-7 , ed. by Marie von Bülow, Leipzig 1900–1908 (letters and writings, 5–8).
Wolfram Mauser : Karl Hillebrand. Life, work, effect. Vorarlberger Verlags-Anstalt, Dornbirn 1960.
Wolfram Mauser: Hillebrand, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 147 f. ( Digitized version ).
Richard Moritz Meyer : Hillebrand, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 333-339.
Anna Maria Voci: Karl Hillebrand. A German citizen of the world . Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Roma 2015, ISBN 978-88-95868-12-7 .
Klaus-Dieter Schroth: Karl Hillebrand - a strong Burger fox . Corpszeitung der Starkenburgia, No. 222, March 31, 2017, p. 75 ff.

Web links

Works by Karl Hillebrand in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

↑ Renoncenliste of the Starkenburgia from the summer semester 1848
^ Dietrich Mack: Wagner's women . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-458-19373-9 , pp. 35 .
↑ Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , p. 752 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Hillebrand, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fuxelles, Ch. A. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German essayist, journalist, cultural scientist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH	September 17, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH	to water
DATE OF DEATH	October 19, 1884
Place of death	Florence

[1] Renoncenliste of the Starkenburgia from the summer semester 1848

[2] Dietrich Mack: Wagner's women . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-458-19373-9 , pp. 35 .

[3] Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , p. 752 ( limited preview in the Google book search).