Michael Leopold Enk from the castle
Michael Leopold Enk von der Burg (born January 29, 1788 in Vienna , † June 11, 1843 in Melk ) was an Austrian Benedictine monk , writer and literary theorist .
biography
Born in Vienna in 1788, Enk von der Burg lived and worked as a Benedictine priest and high school professor at the Stiftsgymnasium Melk ( Lower Austria ). Ernst Freiherr von Feuchtersleben , Adalbert Stifter , Franz Grillparzer , Eduard von Bauernfeld , Friedrich Halm and Nikolaus Lenau were among his friends .
As a literary theorist he wrote the aesthetic study " Melpomene or: About tragic interest " (1827). In the novel Dorat's Death (1833) he philosophizes about the essence of time. This is "a part of eternity given to man by God for his moral development".
Michael Leopold Enk von der Burg committed suicide in Melk in 1843.
In 1894 the Enkplatz in Vienna- Simmering (11th district) and thus later the Enkplatz underground station was named after him.
Works
- Eudoxia or: The Sources of Peace of Mind (1824)
- The Picture of Nemesis (1825)
- Melpomene or: About the tragic interest (1827)
- About dealing with ourselves (1829)
- Don Tiburzio, (novel, 1831)
- Dorat's death (novel, 1833)
- Charaden Almanac (1834)
- Letters about Goethe's Faust (1834)
- Studies on Lopa de Vega (1839)
- About friendship (1840)
literature
- Enk von der Burg P. Michael OSB. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 254.
- Kurt Vancsa: Enk von der Burg, Leopold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 535 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Carl von Prantl: Enk von der Burg, Leopold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 147 f.
- Michael Leopold Enk von der Burg in the Internet Archive
Web links
- Entry on Michael Leopold Enk von der Burg in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Entry on Michael Leopold Enk von der Burg in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
- Literature by and about Michael Leopold Enk von der Burg in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Enk von der Burg, Michael Leopold |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian author |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1788 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1843 |
Place of death | Melk |