Ludwig Eichrodt
Ludwig Eichrodt (born February 2, 1827 in Durlach near Karlsruhe , † February 2, 1892 in Lahr / Black Forest ) was a German lawyer and humorous poet .
Life
Ludwig Eichrodt was a son of the Baden ministerial official and later Minister of the Interior Ludwig Friedrich Eichrodt (1798-1844) and his wife Elisabeth Eichrodt nee Joos (1809-1891). From 1845 he studied law , philosophy and history at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Freiburg , and then lived as a Baden judicial officer in various places until he was appointed senior magistrate in Lahr in 1871.
Together with his college friend Adolf Kussmaul he invented the figure of the Swabian village teacher Gottlieb Biedermeier , a person whom, according to their characterization, “his small room, his narrow garden, his unsightly spots and the poor lot of a despised village schoolmaster help to earthly happiness”. An entire epoch was later named after this figure .
Eichrodt had been friends with Viktor von Scheffel since his school days . Eichrodt exchanged lively letters with the North German writer Theodor Storm - poet lawyer like himself. During his studies he joined the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft Alemannia in 1844 and the Heidelberg Neckarbund in 1845 . He was an editor at the Allgemeine Deutsches Kommersbuch .
Ludwig Eichrodt died on his 65th birthday. His grave is in the old cemetery near the Lahr collegiate church . A primary school in Lahr is named after him.
family
Eichrodt married Elisabeth Susanna Fuchs (1829-1892) in Monzingen in 1860 , a daughter of the tax collector and landowner Philipp Fuchs from Monzingen. The couple had a son and a daughter. The son Friedrich (1862–1952) became a merchant in Java and also worked as a writer.
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Fonts
Some of his publications were made under the pseudonym Rudolf Rodt .
- Poems in all sorts of humor . Stuttgart 1853.
- Tailor booklet . Stuttgart 1853. (anonymous with H. Goll)
- Life and love . Frankfurt 1856. (poems)
- The Count Palatine . Lahr 1859. (dramatic poem)
- German boys' book. World fame in rhymes . Lahr 1865. (illustrated by Schrödter and Camphausen)
- Alboin . Bühl 1865. (dramatic poem)
- Rhine-Swabian . Karlsruhe 1869, 2nd edition 1873. (Poems in Middle Baden speech)
- Lyrical sweeping . Strasbourg 1869. (two volumes)
- Lyric cartoons . Strasbourg 1869. (anthology)
- Biedermeier's lust for songs . Strasbourg 1870.
- Melodies . Stuttgart 1875. (songs)
- Hortus deliciarum . Lahr 1876-1880. (six volumes, humorous anthology)
- Gold. Collection of the original and the genius in German poetry . Leipzig 1882.
Illustrations
- German boys' book. Hundreds of characters in words and pictures. Schauenburg, Lahr 1864. ( Digitized at the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
literature
- Friedrich von Weech : Eichrodt, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 298-300.
- Christel Seidensticker: The real Mr. Biedermeier. Lahr 1992.
- Kate Lorenzen: Eichrodt, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 385 ( digitized version ).
- Ludwig Eichrodt 1827-1892. Mr. Biedermaier and his world. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe) Karlsruhe 1992.
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 163-164.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ludwig Eichrodt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Books by and about Ludwig Eichrodt at the Berlin State Library
- Works by Ludwig Eichrodt at Zeno.org .
- Eichrodt manuscripts in German-speaking libraries and archives
- Settings of Eichrodt poems
- Karlsruhe: Ludwig Eichrodt
- The poems on zgedichte.de
- Ludwig Eichrodt's estate on the website of the Baden State Library
- Works by Ludwig Eichrodt in the Gutenberg-DE project
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eichrodt, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rodt, Rudolf (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and humorous poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Durlach near Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1892 |
| Place of death | Lahr / Black Forest |