Leopold Alberti

Leopold David Scharlau Alberti (born November 30, 1816 in Rendsburg , † April 4, 1892 in Sülfeld ) was a German editor , writer and preacher .

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Leopold Alberti was the son of the police officer Eduard Alberti (1783-1859) and his wife Maria, née Haucke. His brother was the philologist and writer Eduard Alberti . He attended a school in Friedrichstadt and then moved to Hamburg . He already knew Friedrich Hebbel from his time in Friedrichstadt , with whom he quickly made friends in Hamburg.

Alberti tried to convey a bad image of Friedrich Hebbel to Amalie Schoppe . This led to the end of the friendship after a short time. Alberti went to Friedrichstadt again and worked as an agent for the city secretariat. In 1846 he emigrated to the United States , where he initially lived and worked as an editor in New York , including for the newspaper Republic of Workers .

After friendly advice Alberti studied Protestant theology from 1854 and passed the preacher's examination in Columbus . He then served as a minister in Portsmouth, Ohio , followed by positions in several congregations in Illinois . From 1864 he was head of the preacher's seminary in Waukegan, which he co-founded . From 1864 to 1866 he served as President of the Evangelical Synod of the Northwest and then returned to Long Grove , where he had been a preacher years earlier. Since 1868 he was an elder of the northern synodal district.

Alberti left America in 1871 and initially lived in Oldesloe , then in Sülfeld until the end of his life.

Works

The poems written by Alberti were seldom received . They appeared in 1898, edited by Eduard Alberti, together with his own poems as poems by two brothers . According to Adolf Bartels ' assessment , they would “partly echo Hebbel's poems”.

literature

• Eva Rudolph: Alberti, Leopold David Scharlau . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, p. 30.
• Alberti, Leopold . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 1 : Aachen – Braniss . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2005, ISBN 3-11-094657-2 , p. 91 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniel Nagel: From Republican Germans to German-American Republicans. A contribution to the identity change of the German forty-eight in the United States 1850–1861. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2012, ISBN 978-3-86110-504-6 , pp. 119–121, 559.