Ludwig Eckardt

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Ludwig Eckardt , (according to his own orthography ) sometimes also Clodwig Ekart (born May 26, 1827 in Vienna , † February 1, 1871 in Tetschen ) was an Austrian poet and writer .

After graduating from the Piaristengymnasium , Eckardt studied at the University of Vienna . Even when he was not yet 19, he published his drama “Tron und Hütte” (Vienna 1845/46) , which is related to the Frithjofs saga , supported by Christoph Kuffner (1780–1846 ).

Participated in the Vienna October Revolution of 1848 , he fled first to Dresden, then to Switzerland, completed his habilitation as a lecturer in literature and aesthetics at the University of Bern , then was a professor at the Cantonal School in Lucerne, went to Karlsruhe as court librarian in 1862 and edited some Years later a democratic Mannheim newspaper. Since 1867 he has visited a large number of German cities, giving walking lectures on historical and literary subjects; He then took up residence again in his native Vienna. He died on the journey on February 1, 1871 in Tetschen. As a poet, Eckardt published the rhetorical dramas:

  • Socrates (Jena 1858),
  • Friedrich Schiller (that. 1859),
  • Palm (that. 1860),
  • Citizen of the world and patriot (that. 1862),
  • Josefine (Mannheim 1868); further:
  • Short stories (das. 1867) and the novel
  • Nikolaus Manuel (Jena 1862).

Of his aesthetic experiments and treatises, the instructions for reading poetic masterpieces (3rd edition, Leipzig 1883) and the explanations on Schiller's Robbers , Fiesco , Cabal and Love (in Heinrich Düntzer's explanations of the German classics ) met with the most applause. He also wrote a preschool for aesthetics (Karlsruhe 1864–65, 2 vols.). His hiking lectures were collected in Stuttgart in 1867.

Eckardt was a member of the Freemason Lodge Carl zur Eintracht in Mannheim.

In 1930 the Ludwig-Eckhardt-Gasse in Vienna- Penzing (14th district) was named after him.

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  1. ^ L (udwig) M. Eckardt: Tron and hut. Romantic drama in five acts . Kaulfuß W (i) t (w) e., Vienna 1846. - Full text online
  2. Clodwig Eckardt: Blown sheets of a young dramaturge . 2nd Edition. BG Teubner, Dresden (among others) 1847. - Full text online .