Louis du Rieux

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Philippe Louis Ferdinand du Rieux (actually Durieux , born May 26, 1824 in Stettin , † after 1862) was a German poet and world traveler .

Life

Du Rieux comes from a traditional Huguenot family and was the only child of a wealthy businessman. He was interested in music and numerous sciences from an early age and studied philosophy at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin from 1849 to 1851 . On February 19, 1851, he sent Robert Schumann his four-part poem Märchenbilder in Düsseldorf , which probably inspired the composer to write his four-part cycle Märchenbilder for piano and viola op. 113, which was written shortly afterwards. Schumann replied to the letter that he wanted more poetry from Louis du Rieux. Woldemar Bargiel , the half-brother of Clara Schumann who lives in Berlin , wrote on March 7th:

“I delivered your husband's letter correctly. Mr. Louis de [sic] Rieux, a young man, soon to be in Berlin, Paris , Naples and other big cities, is a natural scientist, poet, writer and music aesthet all in one. He writes a lot but doesn't publish anything. Schumann knows all things and is interested in everything that is important in art and science. I made his acquaintance on the occasion and I very much wish to continue her. "

Shortly afterwards he traveled to London , where he met Theodor Fontane and published his poem Aus den Bergen in 1852 . In the house of the geographer August Petermann (1822–1878) he also met the Africa researcher Eduard Vogel (1829–1856), to whom he later, when Vogel was already considered missing, dedicated a very personal article.

In 1853 he was one of the first Europeans to go on an extensive excursion through Guatemala , where he met the then President of the country, General Rafael Carrera . He presumably also traveled to the USA later , on whose political and geographical problems he commented in great detail. He was one of the authors of the memorial memorial, written for the Prussian Foreign Minister Otto Theodor von Manteuffel on June 1, 1856, on the pending memorial between England and the United States of North America with regard to Centro-America as a result of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty Disputes on which additions were made by Louis du Rieux on June 15. In essays about his travels, he acknowledged his role model, Alexander von Humboldt, and criticized slavery in the southern United States.

From 1854 to 1857 he worked for the Berlin Central Office for Press Affairs, a censorship authority in which Fontane was also employed at the same time. A trip to Russia is documented for 1860 . On June 24, 1861, Louis du Rieux was accepted into the French community in Berlin with the professional title "Writer"; In 1862 his track is lost.

Works

  • From the mountains. London 1852
  • A view of the alpine country of Guatemala in Centro-Amerika. Berlin 1853 (digitized version)
  • About the slave question. In: Journal for general geography, new series, Volume 1, Berlin 1856, pp. 286–288, here pp. 286f.
  • The Pacific Railroad. In: Journal for General Geography, new series, Volume 2, Berlin 1857, pp. 180-182 (digitized from Google Books)
  • The traveler Dr. Eduard Vogel and our time. In: Mittheilungen aus der Werkstätte der Natur, Volume 1, Issue 2, Frankfurt am Main 1858, pp. 92–96 (digitized from Google Books)
  • La véritable révolution et la liberté brévetée en Russie. Berlin, Paris, London 1861 (digitized by Google Books)

literature

  • Kazuko Ozawa, "... that a musician would soon get it into notes". How the song finds its composer. In Thomas Synofzik , Hans-Günter Ottenberg (ed.): Schumann and Dresden. Report on the symposium Robert and Clara Schumann in Dresden - Biographical, compositional and socio-cultural aspects in Dresden from May 15 to 18, 2008. Cologne 2010, p. 323–343, here p. 324 f.
  • Klaus Martin Kopitz and Torsten Oltrogge, a poet by the name of Louis du Rieux and Schumann's “Märchenbilder” op. 113. Approaches to a mysterious admirer of the composer. In: Thoughts. Journal of the Saxon Academy of Sciences. Issue 11 (2013), pp. 112–140 (PDF file)
  • Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin 1832 to 1883 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Cologne: Dohr 2015, pp. 141–144, ISBN 978-3-86846-028-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Möller (ed.), Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with the Bargiel family (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series I, Volume 3), Cologne 2011, p. 250.
  2. ↑ Enno Eimers , Prussia and the USA 1850 to 1867. Transantlantic interactions (= sources and research on Brandenburg and Prussian history , volume 28), Berlin 2004, p. 299f. The author erroneously remarks: "There is no evidence of a Louis du Rieux in Berlin around 1856."
personal data
SURNAME You Rieux, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Durieux, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and world traveler
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH after 1861