Karl Ludwig Häberlin

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Carl Ludwig or Karl Ludwig Häberlin (* July 25, 1784 in Erlangen ; † January 4, 1858 in Potsdam ) was a German lawyer and novelist who wrote mainly under the pseudonym HER Belani .

jurist

Häberlin was the son of the constitutional law teacher and historian Karl Friedrich Häberlin , who had been appointed to the University of Helmstedt in 1786 , and studied law there. In 1807 he first became an auditor at the monastery council chamber in Braunschweig , which administered the secularized ecclesiastical property in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , worked at courts in Helmstedt from 1808 under Napoleonic rule , and as a judge from 1810. After the restoration of the Duchy of Brunswick in 1814, he became district administrator in Hasselfelde in the Harz region. In 1824 he was deposed because of cash differences and multiple official offenses and sentenced to a long prison term in Gandersheim . In 1828 he was pardoned after he had published an "attempt to clear up misunderstandings, etc." in Strasbourg for Duke Charles II in his disputes with King George IV of Hanover . He first returned to Helmstedt and then moved to Potsdam , where he stayed until his death in 1858. He was married to Karoline Höhmwald (born October 25, 1783 in Braunschweig).

writer

As early as 1810-13, Häberlin wrote smaller stories that were published under the pseudonyms Avenella and Louis von Häfely in Heinrich Zschokke's "Erheiterungen", Friedrich Adolph Kuhn's "Freimüthigen" and Theodor Hell's "Penelope". During his imprisonment in Gandersheim he met the Wolfenbüttel bookseller Christian Niedmann († 1830) and from 1826 wrote several novels under the pseudonyms Nobody, Mandien, Melindor and Christian Niedmann, such as "Heinrich the Lion", "Napoleon's Novellas" and "Memoirs of the Lord de la Folie ”.

In Potsdam he described the beautification measures carried out by Friedrich Wilhelm IV from 1840 , first in newspaper articles in the Vossische and Spenersche Zeitung , from 1842 in the form of various small guides. This earned him the esteem of the king, so that he gave him official help with the drafting. In 1855 his extensive book "Sanssouci, Potsdam and Surroundings" was finally published with the official participation of Peter Joseph Lenné and Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse .

He also wrote a variety of historical, ethnographic and biographical novels under the anagram HER Belani , which were widely distributed. In 1849 his key novel “So it was. Political-social novel from the time before and during the March events in Berlin ”. The novel's Madame Waston is a figuration of Louise Aston , the March revolutionary, suffragette and writer. Her friend Ottilie von Haake appears as “Fräulein von Hackbrett”, her temporary friend Friedrich Wilhelm Held as “Dr. Ajax “and by Dunker is meant Police Council Dark. In his story "Treu und brav" (Treu und brav), published in 1851, about the revolution in Braunschweig in 1830, he listed 59 novels in 120 volumes on the occasion of his 25th anniversary as a writer. By his death in 1858 there were 64 works in 136 volumes. His last work, which was supposed to depict “Goethe's love life” in a wreath of novellas, remained unfinished.

Since Häberlin wrote for a living, his novels often remained on the surface. Only his description of “Sanssouci, Potsdam and the surrounding area”, published in Berlin in 1855, lasted longer.

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  1. ↑ Walter Wehner: "Louise Aston - a writer and women's rights activist from Gröningen", typescript, 1999, 81 p., Note 59, p. 45. Deposited at the Foundation Archive of the German Women's Movement, Kassel
personal data
SURNAME Häberlin, Karl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Häberlin, Carl Ludwig; HER Belani; Nobody; Mandia; Melindor; Niedmann, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1858
Place of death Potsdam