Karl Theodor Beck
Karl Theodor Beck (also: Bek , born November 4, 1767 in Lustenau in Swabia; † February 17, 1830 in Aichach ) was a Bavarian lawyer and poet.
His father was the Obervogt von Lustenau, who later became the royal court advisor of Oettingen -Spielberg as well as the chief magistrate of Oettingen in Bavaria , later of Dürrwangen . The Princely Oettingian District President Johann Baptist von Ruoesch (1744-1832) was his brother-in-law.
Beck attended schools in Dürrwangen, Neuburg an der Donau , then in Augsburg and then studied at the University of Würzburg .
In 1790 he became the caretaker of the Maltese Grand Priory in Ebersberg near Munich (dissolved in 1808), where he also met Johann Michael Sailer . He then came to Tyrol as a district judge , where he stayed during the Napoleonic Wars from 1809 to 1815. He did a lot to calm the situation there ( Tyrolean popular uprising of 1809). For this he received a special award from the then Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig . He then became a district judge in Neuburg and Aichach, where he died in 1830.
He was married and had several children. The writer Friedrich Beck (1806–1888) was his son.
Works
He published numerous legal, historical and economic writings as well as many songs and poems. His best-known work was Ernst, Emotion and Laune , which he published in 1784.
His works include:
- 1783, Dear little family from Engelheim
- 1784, seriousness, feeling and mood digitized
- 1786, songs from the instigation of the poor institutions in Würzburg
- 1789, St. Gallen. Poems by Carl Theodor Beck. Beside zuvo melodies ,
- 1790, Cornelimus a Genis arides, Entertainments for the Sensitive World , digitized
- 1803, addendum to the pamphlet: the public prosecutor , digitized
- 1807, contributions to the philosophy of the history and the law of the police in Germany and especially in Baiern , digitized
literature
- Friedrich Raßmann , pantheon of German poets now living and writers who intervene in fiction , p.18
- Hyacinth Holland : Beck, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, p. 296 f., With included
- Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 1, p. 127
- Clemens Alois Baader , The learned Baiern or Lexicon of all writers who produced or nourished Bavaria in the 18th century , pp. 86–87.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Royal Bavarian Government Gazette : 1810, p.1004
- ↑ Gothaische learned newspapers: on the year 1789, p.255f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beck, Karl Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bek, Karl Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian lawyer and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1767 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lustenau in Swabia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1830 |
| Place of death | Aichach |