Michael Erich Franck

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Michael Erich Franck , pseudonym Melisso (baptized October 17, 1691 in Schalkau , † June 17, 1721 in Ahorn near Coburg) was a German novelist.

Life

Franck was born as the son of a pastor in Schalkau, but thanks to the transfer of his father to the Coburg area he was able to attend the famous Coburg high school Casimirianum from 1709 to 1713 . He initially enrolled in Jena , but went on to Altdorf near Nuremberg in 1714 to continue his law studies there. Apparently he never graduated, but he was still able to find a job as an official advocate in Oldisleben an der Unstrut. Only twenty-nine years old, he died in 1721 in his parents' rectory.

The young author's romance and student novels follow the patterns of the gallant novel through to encryption . Franck obviously had to put up with the accusation after the Adelphico of having refused the scandal and praising it for money. He comes back to it with the Fleurie , confesses to poverty and names his current role models:

Isn't the way of writing too delicate? That it should be the same as those who lead the incomparable Romanists of our time as Herr Talander , Menantes and Meletaon : So I am already satisfied when I get a thousand parts of the comfort of these famous people in writing; [...].
     But that I have started to write novels is best known to those who know me, and they know that I have to do this for considerable reasons; In view of the fact that I cannot possibly prosequire my Studia Juridica, so far not have taken advantage of this remedy, since I had the need for a daily sleepy companion at universities.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The vindictive Fleurie [...] by Melisso (Franckfurt / Leipzig: J. Hofmanns Erben, 1715), p.) (2 r-v .

Works

  • The avenging Fleurie. Bern 1975 (reprint of the 1715 edition)
  • The blissful knight Adelphico life and happiness cases. Frankfurt / Main 1970 (reprint of the Erlangen 1715 edition)
  • The marriage obtained in the grave. Leipzig 1717
  • The gallant and lovable Salinde. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1718
  • The unhappy-blissful Epirotian Count Rifano. Nuremberg 1722

Literature (selection)

  • Josef Erhard u. Adolf Haslinger : Who is <Melisso>, the author of <Adelphico>? . In: European Tradition and German Literature Baroque, Bern 1973, pp. 449–469
  • Josef Erhard: Michael Erich Franck, a Coburg novelist between Baroque and Rococo . In: Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation . 1975, pp. 27-66
  • Alan Menhennet: The <Galant> Novel as School for Lovers. ME Francks <Vengeance Fleurie> . In: German Life and Letters , new series, Volume 36, 1983, pp. 266-276.
  • Olaf Simons: Marteau's Europe or the novel before it became literature: an investigation of the German and English book supply from 1710-1720 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001), ISBN 90-420-1226-9 , pp. 318-325.

List of works and references

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Michael Erich Franck (1691–1721) . In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints . Volume 3. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, pp. 1555–1557, ISBN 3-7772-9105-6

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personal data
SURNAME Franck, Michael Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melisso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German novelist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1691
PLACE OF BIRTH Schalkau , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1721
Place of death Maple near Coburg