Moritz August von Thümmel

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Moritz August von Thümmel
Thümmel Obelisk in Coburg

Moritz August von Thümmel (born May 27, 1738 in Schönefeld , † October 26, 1817 in Coburg ) was a German writer .

life and work

Moritz August von Thümmel was born on the Schönfeld manor near Leipzig . He was a student at the Roßleben monastery school and then studied at the University of Leipzig , became a chamberlain to Hereditary Prince Ernst Friedrich in 1761 and a real secret councilor and Coburg minister in 1768 , withdrew from public affairs in 1782 and died in Coburg on October 26, 1817.

Thümmel earned literary recognition in 1764 with his Wilhelmine , a small poem in six songs. The small witty composition, as pleasant as it is bold (Goethe) brought the chamberlain great fame overnight and was soon translated into several European languages. His main work, the trip to the midday provinces of France , met the taste of a wide audience with his frivolous, uncomplicated manner and his sometimes coarse humor, so that he was considered the most widely read novelist in Germany during his lifetime. The publisher Joachim Göschen paid a fee of 5,000 thalers for the trip to the midday provinces , more than for the collected works of Goethe and Klopstock combined. Soon, however, Thümmel was forgotten until, at the beginning of the 20th century, some publishers remembered him and revived his works in bibliophile series (for example Wilhelmine, Drugulin-Druck, Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig 1917 or Otto Julius Bierbaum's Books of the Abbey Thelem , Georg Müller Verlag, Munich 1919).

Thümmel proved in his writings to be a kindred spirit and student of Christoph Martin Wieland . Meyer's Konversationslexikon from 1888 attests to his works "a certain grace, fine observation and portrayal, besides admittedly also frivolity and lascivious frivolity".

Honors

In his memory, citizens of Coburg erected an obelisk in the mountain park of Schloss Falkenegg with the symbols of his work and quotations from his work.

Works


Work edition:

literature

  • Johann E. von Gruner: Life MA v. Thümmels . In: MA von Thümmel: all works. Volume 8. Macklot, Stuttgart 1820
  • Horst Heldmann (Ed.): Moritz August von Thümmel . Franconian Publishing House, Nuremberg 1967
  • Johann Georg Meusel (founder), JWS Lindner (arrangement), JS Verlag (Hrsg.): The learned Germany in the nineteenth century . Volume 9. Lemgo 1827, p. 64 ( digitized version )
  • Richard Rosenbaum:  Thümmel, Moritz August von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 171-177.
  • Gerhard Sauder: The traveling Epicurean . Winter, Heidelberg 1968
  • Thümmel, Moritz August von . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 15, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 678.
  • Kerstin Timmermann: The Protestant country preacher. Studies of his representation with Thümmel, Lenz, Goldsmith and Nicolai ; (Diss.); Tectum: Marburg 2005; ISBN 3-8288-8936-0 ; here: pp. 27–83.
  • Sebastian Hennig : “Apollo's dwarf. Moritz August Thümmel ” . In: palm tree. Literary Journal from Thuringia , 1/2011, pp. 147–151 ( table of contents of the edition ).

Web links

Wikisource: Moritz August von Thümmel  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno Preisendörfer: When Germany was not yet Germany - journey to the time of Goethe . Galiani, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86971-110-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Thümmel, Moritz August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönefeld near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1817
Place of death Coburg