Ludwig von Baczko

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Ludwig von Baczko (1822)

Ludwig Franz Adolf Josef von Baczko (born June 8, 1756 in Lyck , Masuria ; † March 27, 1823 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German writer . In intellectual history he stands between Enlightenment and Romanticism .

Life

Ludwig von Baczko's parents were the Austrian officer and later Prussian Rittmeister of the Hussars Adolf von Baczko and his wife Sophie Charlotte Dullo, an adopted daughter of Mayor Deutschmann von Goldap .

He studied law at the Albertus University in Königsberg . He completed his studies in 1777. In the same year he went blind due to smallpox . He gave history lessons at the Königsberg Artillery Academy and worked as a writer, historian, playwright and novelist, author of philosophical, sociological and socially critical essays and newspaper editor in Königsberg. In 1783 he published the Prussian magazine for teaching and entertainment . In 1808/09 he worked in the Königsberg Chamber of the Tugendbund (moral and scientific association) and dealt with the people's wealth. In 1816 he became head of the Königsberg Institute for the Blind.

Ludwig von Baczko has compiled a travelogue from the diary and letters of his second son Ferdinand, a cavalryman in the first Prussian body hussar regiment under Count Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz , which contains interesting information about horse breeding by the Tatars and the Molotschna colony . His most important work is the six-volume history of Prussia .

family

He married Magdalena Johanna von Montowt on May 14, 1792 in Königsberg . The couple had three sons and four daughters, including Johanna (born May 19, 1796). In 1830 she married Colonel a. D. August Friedrich Ludwig la Chevallerie (1766–1848).

Works

  • The life and adventures of Wilhelm Walters, an emigrant (published anonymously), Leipzig 1795.
  • Thomas Münzer. Whose character and fates , 1812, full text
  • Müller the Despiser and his five daughters . Gottlieb Lebrecht Hartung, Königsberg 1788. Unchanged reprint, with an afterword by Joseph Kohnen. Frankfurt am Main 1996. ISBN 3-631-30599-0 .
  • Handbook of the history, description of the earth and statistics of Prussia , Königsberg and Leipzig 1802/03. Two parts. Volume 1 , Volume 2
    • First part, 384 pages.
    • Second part, 384 ( full text )
  • History of Prussia . Königsberg 1793-1800, 6 vols.
  • An attempt at a history and description of Königsberg . 2nd edition, Königsberg 1804, 539 pages ( full text )
  • History of the French Revolution , 2 vols. Volume 1 , Volume 2
  • Outline of a history, description of the earth and statistics of all provinces of the Prussian state: together with a short introduction to the general history and geography of the use of schools . Göbbels and Ungar, Königsberg and Leipzig 1804, 174 pages ( full text )
  • 18th century history . Königsberg 1806-10, 4 vols. First part, 328 pages ( full text )
  • Galeazzo Visconti or love and nobility . Halle and Leipzig 1814 ( full text ).
  • Russia and France: a historical comparison based on strange facts . Hall 1814. New edition 1999: Microfiche edition 3-487-21889-5.
  • Legends, folk tales, ghost and magic stories , collected and edited by Ludwig von Baczko and others. Three volumes. Halle / Vienna 1816/1918, third volume, 391 pages ( full text )
  • History of the French Revolution . 2nd edition, Halle 1818, 2 vols.
  • Memorandum to the court councilor and senior secretary Matthias Balthasar Nicolovius . In: Contributions to the Prussian customer , Volume 2, Königsberg 1819, pp. 1–28 ( full text )
  • Events of the Captain von Falkenhayn on Perscheln, in the days of the battle of Pr. Eylau . In: Contributions to the Prussian customer , Volume 2, Königsberg 1819, pp. 177-193 ( full text )
  • Story of my life . Königsberg 1824, 283 pages ( Volume 1 , Volume 2 ). New edition 1989: microfiche edition, ISBN 3-628-41612-4 .

As editor:

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical pocket book of the knights and Aristocratic families, 1880, fifth year, page 74

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personal data
SURNAME Baczko, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baczko, Ludwig Franz Adolf Josef von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Elk , Masuria
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1823
Place of death Koenigsberg i. Pr.