Ludwig Vinzenz Fischer

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Ludwig Vinzenz Fischer

Ludwig Vinzenz Fischer (born January 22, 1845 in Reschitza , Austrian Empire , † December 15, 1890 in Halle (Saale) ) was an Austrian author, novelist and translator from the ethnic group of the Banat mountainous Germans .

Life

Fischer came from a family of carpenters who immigrated from the Kingdom of Saxony to the Banat Uplands. His father, Franz Fischer, lived with his family in Orawitz and worked there as a carpenter. He had relatives in Reschitza, where Ludwig Vinzenz Fischer was born and baptized. In 1859 Ludwig Vinzenz Fischer became an apprentice in the Reschitza joinery under the care of his uncle Johann Fischer. After two years he was employed in the works office as a "clerk", later he found new tasks in accounting.

In 1871 Fischer left the Banat and first settled in Floridsdorf as an official at the local steelworks, after which he was an official at a paper mill in Heurichstal ( Moravia ). He then worked as an authorized signatory in a paper mill in Erlau . In Austria he married Helene Kapall. He took over the position of director in a company in the Kingdom of Württemberg , after which he was "authorized manager" of a paper mill in Kröllwitz . Fischer died here on December 15, 1890.

Literary work

From 1866 Fischer published articles in the newspapers of Lugosch and Timisoara . Between 1868 and 1890 Fischer translated Romanian poetry for Austrian and German magazines such as Österreichische Gartenlaube (Graz), Die Dioskuren (Vienna), Der Osten (Vienna), Magazin für die Literatur des Auslands ( Leipzig) and Das Auslands (Augsburg). Throughout his life, he supported the German-language magazine Romänische Revue , published by Corneliu Diaconovici , to which he supplied paper for the production price and in which he published his own articles. Even before the Romanian Revue was published , Diaconovici brokered Fischer's contributions to Banat magazines, such as the “South Hungarian Review”, the magazine for comparative literary history founded in Lugosch in 1881.

Ludwig Vinzenz was one of the first translators of Romanian folk and art poetry. He was the first to translate “ Luceafărul ”, a work by the Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu , into German. In 1888, King Charles I of Romania awarded him the "Golden Medal for Art and Science" for his services .

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SURNAME Fischer, Ludwig Vinzenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author, novelist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Reșița , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1890
Place of death Halle (Saale)