Maximilian von Oer
Maximilian Joseph Freiherr von Oer (born September 30, 1806 at Gut Nottbeck near Stromberg (Oelde) , † August 9, 1846 in Erfurt ) was a German poet and writer.
Life
Maximilian von Oer was born as the son of the Westphalian district administrator Clemens Freiherr von Oer. The painter Theobald von Oer was his brother. After private lessons, which he received with his two brothers, he completed the last years of school at the high school in Münster. In 1825 he began studying law and camera science at the University of Bonn. In 1826 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Bonn . He later continued his studies in Breslau and Berlin, where he came into contact with Heinrich Laube , Gustav Kühne , August Daniel von Binzer and Alfred von Reumont , from whom he was inspired to write. There he became a member of the in 1829Old Wroclaw fraternity Arminia . In 1829 he completed his studies in camera science in Berlin and returned to his parents in Erfurt. In 1831 he was employed by the royal government in Erfurt as a trainee lawyer. At the end of 1832 he resigned from civil service and moved to Plaue , where he was mayor from 1840 to 1844. In the last two years of his life he devoted himself completely to poetry and history as the Princely Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Councilor in Arnstadt .
Romantic poems written by Oer and ballads and romances rooted in the Christian-Germanic and Saracen-Spanish world of knights and heroes.
plant
- Meteor stones , 1835
- Ballads and Romances , 1837
- Stories , 1837
- Thuringia and the Harz Mountains, with their peculiarities, folk tales and legends , 1842
- Plaue and the Ehrenburg
literature
- Franz Brümmer: Oer, Maximilian Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 408. ( digitized version )
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 241-242.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 10 , 63
- ↑ Official Gazette of the Prussian Government in Erfurt, year 1831, item 16, April 23, 1831, p. 98, Personalchronik der public authorities, no. 91 ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oer, Maximilian von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oer, Maximilian Joseph Freiherr von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Nottbeck near Stromberg (Oelde) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1846 |
| Place of death | Erfurt |