Karl Ziegler (poet)

Karl Ziegler (born April 12, 1812 in St. Martin im Innkreis , † May 20, 1877 in Vienna ) was an Austrian poet and lyricist .

Childhood and youth

When Karl Ziegler was four years old, his father died. The mother remarried and moved to Vienna with her children in 1818. Due to a change in his stepfather's career, they soon moved to Mödling before returning to Vienna in 1823. He received his education through private lessons. In 1827 he moved to the University of Vienna to devote himself to philosophical studies. But he never really brought them to a conclusion.

Later years

In 1835 he took up a firm position in the kk school book publishing directorate and from there he retired at his own request after twenty-two years.

In 1845 he married and a year later a daughter was born. However, his wife died in 1847. Twenty years later he married Rosa Strnad from Salzburg and moved to Salzburg, where his daughter also married the bookseller Ludwig Taube in March 1867, at the age of 21. In the same year, the Austrian government awarded him the state grant for meritorious artists in the amount of 300 guilders per year, which he kept until the end of his life.

Beginning in 1830, Ziegler undertook various trips until 1867, visiting his homeland Upper Austria as well as Munich , Stuttgart , Nuremberg and Regensburg several times . In 1864 he accepted a friend's invitation to Trieste and in 1867 extended his travels to Venice .

Artistic creation

Poetic emotions awoke in the young Karl at the age of seven. The proximity to Vienna and the frequent visits to theaters certainly played a role in this. However, the entry into professional life at the age of fourteen and a henceforth more scientifically oriented work prevented the early formative development of his artistic ambitions. In 1832, Karl Ziegler published his first poem under the family nickname and pseudonym Carlopago , an ode to the Austrian opera singer Franz Wild . From then on, while he was doing his livelihood, he published further poems in magazines under this pseudonym at the kk school book publisher and in 1843 published his first anthology with the title “Poems” at Brockhaus in Leipzig. Over the years he gave several collections of poetry under the following titles: "Heaven and Earth" (Vienna 1856); - “Oden” (Salzburg 1866) and “Vom Kothurn der Lyrik” (ibid. 1869). Two tragedies, written in 1834 and 1836, remained unprinted. He died in Vienna, where he had been living again since 1877, of typhus on May 20, 1877. - Ziegler, whose poems are now almost forgotten, was widely recognized in contemporary literary circles. Alongside Robert Hamerling , he was considered the most diverse and most important lyric poet in Austria.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Ziegler, Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 60th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1891, p. 56 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hermann Arthur Lier:  Ziegler, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 184.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Ziegler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Karl Ziegler (poet) at Zeno.org .