Ludwig Passarge
Ludwig Passarge , also Louis Passarge (born August 6, 1825 in Wolittnick , Heiligenbeil district / East Prussia, † August 19, 1912 in Lindenfels , Hesse) was a German travel writer, translator and editor.
Life
The son of a landowner first attended the Collegium Fridericianum and from 1844 studied law at the universities of Königsberg and Heidelberg . In 1856 he was appointed district judge in Heiligenbeil . In 1877 Passarge became a judge in Insterburg , and in 1879 in Königsberg . In 1887 he retired.
Since his youth, Passarge traveled all over Europe, from which he recorded his impressions in books and articles. He was in close contact with the writer Ernst Wichert .
In addition to his home in East Prussia and the Baltic States , Passarge also traveled to the Balkans and the Iberian Peninsula , for whose first description in Baedeker's travel guides from 1897 he provided essential material. During his stays in Scandinavia he got to know the works of Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and became their translator and editor in the German-speaking area.
Passarge continued his travels well into old age and died on his last trip to the Odenwald. He was the father of the geographer Siegfried Passarge .
Works
- The Curonian Spit . In: Prussian provincial sheets. Volume 74, Issue 1, Königsberg 1871, pp. 20-45 , pp. 97-117 and pp. 193-214. (Reprint 2002: The Curonian Spit . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-631-50353-9 .)
- From the Vistula Delta
- The Marienburg
- Beach letters
- From the Baltic countries
- An East Prussian youth
- Three summers in Norway
Web links
- Literature by and about Ludwig Passarge in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Passarge, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Passarge, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German travel writer, translator and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolittnick , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1912 |
| Place of death | Lindenfels , Hesse |