Ludwig Giseke

Ludwig August Christian Giseke , also Gisecke (born July 21, 1756 in Quedlinburg , † April 17, 1832 in Braunschweig ) was a German writer , poet and councilor . He created the text of the Beresina song .

Life

The son of the Quedlinburg court preacher, writer and Klopstock friend Nikolaus Dietrich Giseke attended the city school in Sondershausen and studied law in Göttingen from 1775 . He was a collaborator in the Göttingen Musenalmanac , whose volumes from 1785 to 1792 contain his contributions, especially poems. He then worked as a private tutor in Berlin. In 1783 he worked for several years as secretary to the Russian Reichstag envoy Achatz Ferdinand von der Asseburg at Meisdorf Castle in the Selketal . In this function he visited the Regensburg Reichstag several times . On the recommendation of his uncle Karl Christian Gärtner , writer and teacher at the Braunschweiger Collegium Carolinum , Giseke entered the service of the Danish field marshal Duke Friedrich Karl Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Bevern , as his private secretary he worked in Glücksburg and Braunschweig. After the Duke's death in 1809, Giseke continued the business of the widow Anna Caroline. The Danish King Friedrich VI. appointed him in 1814 to the budget council. Giseke moved to Braunschweig in 1816, where he lived in the house of his cousin Henriette Gärtner. In 1819, Duke Charles II gave him a canon at the Cyriakus pen . Giseke died unmarried in Braunschweig in 1832 and was buried in the local Katharinenfriedhof .

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Giseke published numerous articles in the Braunschweigischer Magazin and other magazines. He wrote a short biography published in 1809 about his employer, Duke Friedrich Karl Ferdinand. Some of his poems were set to music, the best known of which is the Beresina song based on his poem Die Nachtreise .

Fonts

• together with his brother Otto Giseke: Painting rural bliss , 2 vols. Leipzig 1792.
• Stories from human life, the animal kingdom and the world of ideas , Leipzig 1794.
• Rubriken , Ein Reader, Copenhagen 1802.

literature

• Günther Giseke: Messages from the Giseke family , handwriting for the family, Eisleben 1843.
• Kurt Hoffmeister : Braunschweigs Literaten , Braunschweig 2003, p. 69.
• Bergit Korschan-Kuhle: Giseke, Ludwig August Christian . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 211 f .