Ludwig August Frankl von Hochwart

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Ludwig August Frankl, painting by Leopold Pollak
Signature Ludwig August Frankl von Hochwart.PNG
Ludwig August Frankl, lithograph by Johann Stadler
Ludwig August Frankl as an academic legionnaire in 1848 (after a painting by Joseph Matthäus Aigner )
Grave of Ludwig August Frankl von Hochwart in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Ludwig August Ritter von Frankl-Hochwart (born February 3, 1810 in Chrast in Bohemia , † March 12, 1894 in Vienna ) was a doctor , journalist , writer and honorary citizen of Vienna.

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Ludwig August Frankl came from a Jewish family from Chrast . His parents were the tobacco district publisher Leopold Frankl († 1825) and his wife Therese Hermann.

He attended the Piaristengymnasium the Prague New Town, the Piaristenkollegium in Leitomischl and studied from 1828 in Vienna medicine. By the Habsburg song (Vienna 1832) he introduced and a number of historical ballads in the circles of the Viennese writer and found by the Epic-lyrical seals (Vienna 1834), the legends of the East (Leipzig 1834) and the romantic epic Christoforo Colombo (Stuttgart 1836) first recognition.

After returning from a trip to Italy , where he received his doctorate in medicine at the University of Padua in 1837, he gave up his medical profession and in September 1838 took the position of secretary at the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Vienna . At the beginning of March 1840 he took over the editing of the Oesterreichischer Morgenblatt , then published a new collection of poems (Leipzig 1840) and the biblical-romantic poem Rachel (1842; 7th edition, Vienna 1880) and founded the weekly Sunday papers in 1842 , which was decisive Development of intellectual life in Austria contributed.

His poem The University , written at the beginning of the March Revolution of 1848 , caused a sensation as the first censorship-free leaflet, was distributed in more than a million copies and set to music by numerous composers.

In 1851 he was appointed professor of aesthetics at the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music . In 1856 he made a trip to Jerusalem .

In 1871 he founded the Hohe Warte asylum for the blind in Vienna and in 1873 became president of the first congress for teachers of the blind in Vienna, for k. k. Appointed school councilor as well as president of the Schiller Society in Vienna and president of the Vienna Israelite religious community. On the occasion of the unveiling of the Schiller memorial on Vienna's Schillerplatz on November 10, 1876, Frankl was given the title of "Knight of Hochwart" in recognition of the institution for the blind on the Hohe Warte in Vienna with the title "Knight of Hochwart" raised. In 1880 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Vienna .

Ludwig August Frankl von Hochwart found his final resting place in a grave designed by Johannes Benk in the old Israelite part of the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 5b / 35/58).

family

Ludwig August Frankl was married to Paula Wiener, born in 1834, a daughter of the Prague merchant and banker Hermann Wiener (died 1874), and his wife Therese von Lämel; her son was the neurologist Lothar von Frankl-Hochwart (1862-1914). A nephew of Frankl was the musicologist Paul Josef Frankl (born December 21, 1892 in Brno , from 1949 professor at the Music Academy in Vienna; died there on † August 1976).

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Commons : Ludwig August von Frankl  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Collected Poetic Works , Vol. 3, pp. 99–155.
  2. ↑ Description of the persecution of the Jews.
  3. ↑ Hecht 2016, p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Frankl von Hochwart, Ludwig August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frankl, Ludwig August von; Frankl, Ludwig August; Frankl von Hochwart, Ludwig August Ritter; Frankl Ritter von Hochwart, Ludwig August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor, journalist, writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Chrast , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1894
Place of death Vienna