Maurice Reinhold von Stern
Maurice Reinhold von Stern (born April 3, 1860 in Reval , Russian Empire , † October 28, 1938 in Höflein, Ottensheim municipality , Upper Austria) was a writer and journalist .
Life
Maurice Reinhold von Stern was the son of the poet and landowner Carl Walfried von Stern (1819–1874) and his wife Caroline von Patkul . The historian Carl Friedrich von Stern was his older brother. After attending grammar school in Dorpat (Estonian Tartu ), he took part in the Russo-Turkish War as a volunteer from 1876 to 1879 . Then he was a member of the editorial board of the Revalsche Zeitung . Lived in New York from 1881, with various jobs and in great poverty. He regularly attended social-democratic events. He then worked for the New York State Newspaper and the New Yorker People's Newspaper and founded the New Jersey Workers' Newspaper . He described this time in his autobiographical novel Walter Wendrich (1895).
In the spring of 1885, Stern returned to Europe and began to study in Zurich, but was expelled from the university because of his dedicated support for women's studies. He then wrote socio-political and philosophical writings as a freelance writer, was an editor at Zürcher Volksblatt from 1888–1890 and founded the monthly Stern's literary bulletin in Switzerland in 1892 , which went bankrupt in 1898.
He then moved to the Linz area (Upper Austria), where he joined the German national movement. From December 1901 he took over the editing of the Kyffhäuser and was for a time director of the Austrian publishing house. In the 1920s he also wrote some writings with philosophical content, such as Weltanschauung , 1921, or Theory of the Unconscious , 1928. Stern spent the last years of his life secluded in his house near Ottensheim.
Stern was married to Anna Marie Schnurrenberger from 1895 and had three sons with her: Johann, Karl and Max.
meaning
Stern began his journalistic and writing activities as a socialist . In later life he turned to the German Radical Party and assigned himself as a writer to local and provincial art.
Works (selection)
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literature
- Irmgard Paulus: Maurice Reinhold von Stern. Innsbrucker Phil. Dissertation, 1954 (manuscript).
- I. Nawrocka: Stern, Maurice Reinhold von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 228 f. (Direct links on p. 228 , p. 229 ).
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1250-1253 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Maurice Reinhold von Stern in the catalog of the German National Library
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Maurice Reinhold von Stern. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Article of the culture portal West-Ost
- Christian Baertschi: Maurice Reinhold von Stern. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stern, Maurice Reinhold von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1938 |
| Place of death | Höflein, Ottensheim , Upper Austria |