Nikolai Nathan Prince

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Nikolai Nathan Fürst (* 1779 in Copenhagen ; † May 11, 1857 in Vienna ) was a German-Danish author, publicist and poet of the early romantic period .

family

Nikolai (also Nicolai or mostly Nicolay ) Nathan Fürst (from 1821 Joseph Anton Friedrich Nikolaus Fürst ) was the son of the Copenhagen-based Jewish businessman Moses Fürst and his wife Rachel, née Gugenheim, from Altona (a sister of Moses Mendelssohn's wife Fromet ). Moses Fürst maintained a lively correspondence with Moses Mendelssohn. In June 1784 Mendelssohn wrote letters from Berlin to his good brothers in Copenhagen, Messrs. Moses Fürst and Joseph Gugenheim . The latter, Joseph Gugenheim (* 1743 in Altona; † 1803 in Copenhagen), a merchant mainly active in Berlin, was brother-in-law and business partner of both Moses Mendelssohn and Moses Fürst at the same time, and thus an uncle of Nikolai Nathan Fürst.

Career and Conversion

Nikolai Fürst attracted attention from an early age with literary activities and as a teacher of the French language. In 1814 he moved to Vienna, where he worked for several journals and newspapers, especially as a member of the editorial team of the Wiener Zeitung . In 1816 he published the Letters on Danish Literature , in which works by Ludvig Holberg were reviewed. He was a member of the Ludlamshöhle , had the Ludlam name Nils, the north child , because of his origins in Denmark , and composed the lyrics for the caliphate to the music of Adalbert Gyrowetz .

On January 23, 1821 he converted to Catholicism in the parish of Rossau , where he was listed in the files as Studiosus and the relocation and place of residence of his parents were also mentioned: ... lived in Copenhagen in Denmark, now in Vienna City No. 1097 . Fürst's godparents were two prominent fellow writers, namely the main editor of the newspaper Österreichischer Beobachter and real kk court secretary Joseph Anton von Pilat as well as the kk legation counselor and philosopher Friedrich von Schlegel (who himself converted from the Lutheran to the Catholic creed in 1808). Probably in their honor, the name was changed to Joseph Anton Friedrich Nikolaus Fürst after the conversion .

In 1824, Fürst traveled to Paris to perfect his French and to write correspondence for German magazines. After the July Revolution of 1830 he returned to Vienna. From 1847 he also worked as a translator for the Wiener Zeitung . He has written numerous articles, some in German, some in Danish. In addition to a few trips, Fürst stayed in Vienna until his death on 11 May 1857 due to an ulceration of the lungs. Whether the Viennese actor and theater director Johann Fürst (1825–1882) was possibly his son remains pure speculation for the time being.

Publications (selection)

  • Poet (Copenhagen 1806)
  • Ines de Castro (Copenhagen 1814)
  • Letters on Danish literature (Vienna, Carl Gerold Verlag, 1816)
  • Mixed writings (Vienna 1824)
  • Political Caricature Sonnets (Munich 1832)

Web links and literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Nissen, CA (1891) pp. 497-498
  2. ↑ see Staudacher (2002), p. 136
  3. ↑ see Kayserling, M. (1862), p. 554
  4. ↑ see Bandle, Oskar, Glauser, J. and Würth, S. (2004), p. 537
  5. ↑ see Staudacher (2002), p. 136
  6. ↑ see Staudacher (2002), p. 136
  7. ↑ N. Fürst: Letters on Danish literature , preview of Google books (visited April 27, 2020)
  8. ↑ N. Fürst: Mixed writings , preview of Google books (visited on April 27, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Prince, Nikolai Nathan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prince, Joseph Anton Friedrich Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-German writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1779 or 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1857
Place of death Vienna