Ludwig Bledow

Ludwig Erdmann Bledow (born July 27, 1795 in Berlin ; † August 6, 1846 there ) was a German chess player .

Ludwig Bledow

biography

Bledow was a math teacher at the Cöllnisches Realgymnasium. Bledow was instructed in chess by the strongest player in Berlin at the time, Julius Mendheim . From 1835 he was considered one of the leading chess players in Germany. He measured himself in duels with the top players of his time. He won games against Horwitz (1837), Szén (1839), Jänisch (1842), Mongredien (1845) and others. He also competed against Anderssen , Henry Thomas Buckle and Aaron Alexandre .

Bledow was the founder of the Berlin School . He led the group of younger masters of the Berlin Chess Society , to which Wilhelm Hanstein , Paul Rudolph von Bilguer and Tassilo von Heydebrand and the Lasa belonged, for the intensive study of the chess literature and especially the openings . In 1846 he founded the (later German) chess newspaper . However, as an editor, Bledow only saw the first issue appear. For more than a century it was considered the most important German chess magazine.

Publications

In 1843 Bledow published The Chess Games ^[sic] played by correspondence between the Berlin and Posener Klub ^[sic] . The publication contained not only the 1839/40 between Berlin and Posen, but a total of 52 correspondence chess games - and was the first German-language book on correspondence chess. The collection was expanded and reissued by Max Lange in 1872 . In 1997 a reprint of the original edition from 1843 appeared. This also includes handwritten notes by Bledov, which were apparently intended for the preparation of an extended edition that was planned during his lifetime. Finally, Bledow edited an edition of the work of the famous Syrian master Philipp Stamma .

Chess library

His extensive chess library, which the Royal Library in Berlin later bought, was known.

Works

• The chess games played between the Berlin and Posener Klub through correspondence , Veit and Comp. , Berlin 1843.
• The chess games played through correspondence between the Berlin and Poznan clubs , Schachverlag Mädler, Dresden 1997 (reprint of the Berlin 1843 edition) ISBN 3925691197 .
• Stamma's Hundred Endgames , edited from the edition of 1745, translated by L. Bledow and O. von Oppen, Berlin 1856.

literature

• O. Koch: Ludwig Bledow , in: Deutsches Wochenschach 1909, pp. 1–6, 13–15, 37–41.
• Rudolf Teschner:  Bledow, Ludwig Erdmann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 296 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Bledow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jeremy P. Spinrad: Ludwig Erdmann Bledow (2006) ( Memento from June 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) English article at chesscafe.com (PDF file; 143 kB)
• Compositions by Ludwig Bledow on the PDB server