Ludwig Eckardt
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.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Eckardt, Ludwig . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 3rd part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 418 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Eckardt Ludwig. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 213.
- Kurt Vancsa: Eckardt, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 282 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Reading cabinet. Blown leaves by a young playwright. (...). In: Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunst, Literatur, Theater und Mode , No. 214/1846 (XXXI. Volume), October 26, 1846, p. 857. (Online at ANNO ). .
- P .: feuilleton. Two theater scandals. In: Bukowinaer Rundschau , No. 811/1890, April 10, 1890, p. 1 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
- Literature by and about Ludwig Eckardt in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ L (udwig) M. Eckardt: Tron and hut. Romantic drama in five acts . Kaulfuß W (i) t (w) e., Vienna 1846. - Full text online
- ↑ Clodwig Eckardt: Blown sheets of a young dramaturge . 2nd Edition. BG Teubner, Dresden (among others) 1847. - Full text online .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Eckardt, Ludwig |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eckardt, Louis |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian poet and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1827 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1871 |
Place of death | Tetschen |