Karl Reinhard (writer)

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Karl Reinhard (born August 20, 1769 in Helmstedt ; † May 24, 1840 in Zossen ) was the editor of Gottfried August Bürger's works , the Göttingen Musenalmanac , writer and polyhistor .

Life

Reinhard first studied at the University of Helmstedt , where his father was stable master . In 1789 he was employed by Christian Friedrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode as court master of the young counts. In Wernigerode he met the poet Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim , who was a friend of Christian Friedrich , and found access to his circle. There he made a close friendship with Johann Gottfried Richter (1762–1791), a young author who, however, died in 1791 when he was not yet 30 years old. Reinhard published his literary estate in 1795.

From 1792 Reinhard was a private lecturer in Göttingen , where he gave lectures on German stylistics . In Göttingen he met Gottfried August Bürger, who became his friend and role model. After his death in 1794 he became the editor of the works and the citizen's estate and the successor of the citizen as editor of the "Musenalmanac". In 1812 he anonymously published a collection of documents in defense of Bürger in connection with his unhappy marriage to Elise Hahn ( Bürger's Marriage History ).

Reinhard left Göttingen in 1807 and lived in Ratzeburg from 1807 to 1811 , then in Hamburg and Altona until 1824 , from 1824 in Berlin and Potsdam and finally in Zossen.

Reinhard called himself "Karl von Reinhard" from the mid-1820s . There is no evidence of an ennoblement.

Reinhard was extremely productive. As a poet, he was close to the Göttingen Hain , especially at a young age, and published three volumes with quite independent poetry. He is still represented in anthologies today with gallant and love poems. An example of his love poetry is the following triolet from 1791 , addressed to an Elisa he wrote several times :

Girl give my heart back,
Or give me yours!
Can you see me crying
girl give my heart back
Heart for heart and luck for luck,
or whatever is his!
Girl give my heart back,
Or give me yours!

He was the editor of the works of Bürger and the Göttingen Musenalmanac as well as various series and writings, translated from English and French, published articles in numerous magazines and wrote two multi-volume popular science works.

Works (selection)

as editor:

  • Johann Gottfried Richter : literary estate. Korte, Flensburg & Leipzig 1795.
  • Göttingen muse almanac . 1795-1806.
  • Small library of novels. Göttingen 1798–1802.
  • Gottfried August Bürger:
    • Poems. 2 parts Dieterich, Göttingen 1796, 1803.
    • All the writings. 4 parts. Dieterich, Göttingen 1796–1798.
    • Textbook of Aesthetics. Schüppel, Berlin 1825.
    • Textbook of the German style. Schüppel, Berlin 1826.
    • Aesthetic fonts. Berlin 1832.
    • All works. 9 vols. Ignaz Klang, Vienna 1844.

literature

  • Heinrich Döring : Karl v. Reinhard. In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Vol. 18 (1840), pp. 612-616.
  • Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann:  Reinhard, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 63-65.
  • Matthias Richter: Reinhard, Karl von. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon. Vol. 9. De Gruyter, Berlin & New York 2010.

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Reinhard  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ poems. New edition. Altona 1819, p. 75
personal data
SURNAME Reinhard, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinhard, Karl von; Reinhard, Carl; Reinhard, Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, narrator, editor, translator and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmstedt
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1840
Place of death Zossen