Michael Leopold Enk from the castle

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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)

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