Matthew von Collin

Matthew von Collin (1779-1824); Engraving after a painting by L. Kupelwieser

Matthäus von Collin (born March 4, 1779 in Vienna ; † November 23, 1824 there , suburb of Penzing ) was an Austrian writer and educator. Today he is mainly known for his poems set to music by Franz Schubert .

Life

Matthäus von Collin is a son of the doctor Heinrich Joseph Collin (1731–1784) and his wife Elisabeth Edle von Fichtl from a family of officials who were ennobled in 1755. The writer Heinrich Joseph von Collin was his brother. He was promoted to Dr. jur. doctorate and 1808 professor of aesthetics and history of philosophy in Cracow ; then he worked as a court designer in the finance department in Vienna. After he had made a name for himself with literary attempts at a young age - among other things, a libretto based on an Ossian subject for Peter von Winter - he published the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung in 1814 and founded the Wiener Jahrbuch der Literatur in 1818 . As its editor, he was an influential figure in the literary circles of Viennese Romanticism . His dramas, which take up topics from Austrian history, are seen as precursors of Grillparzer's historical tragedies.

Since 1815 he was entrusted with the education of Napoleon's son, Prince of Parma (from 1818: Duke of Reichstadt ). Collins' remains were first buried in the old Penzingen parish cemetery and later transferred to the Hietzingen cemetery . His burial site there has been reoccupied and has not been preserved.

Works

• Light and love (Schubert catalog raisonné D. 352)
• The dwarf (Schubert catalog raisonné D. 771)
• Wehmut (Schubert catalog raisonné D. 772)
• Night and dreams (Schubert catalog raisonné D. 827)
• Bela's war with the father , 1808
• The death of Frederick the Arguable , 1813

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Collin, Matthäus II. Von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 415 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Karl Weiß :  Collin, Matthäus von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 409.
• Collin Matthäus (II.) From. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 151.
• Kurt Vancsa:  Collin, Matthäus von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 323 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Of Dwarves, Perversion, and Patriotism: Schubert's "Der Zwerg," D. 771, by Susan Youens 19th-Century Music 1997, University of California Press.

Web links

• Literature by and about Matthäus von Collin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Matthäus von Collin in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )