Otto von Haugwitz

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Otto von Haugwitz (born February 28, 1767 in Pischkowitz ; died February 17, 1842 in Johannisberg in Silesia ) was a German translator and poet .

Life

Haugwitz came from the old Silesian noble family of Haugwitz and was the last male scion in its Pischkowitz line. He lost both parents at an early age and therefore came to the Josephinisches Erziehungshaus in Breslau in 1770 , where he also attended the Catholic Matthias Gymnasium . After completing the so-called "philosophical course" at the Leopoldina in Breslau , he studied philosophy and law at the University of Halle from 1785 and in Göttingen , Berlin and Vienna from 1788 . In Vienna he got to know personally the rhetoric teacher and poet Michael Denis , also known as Sined the Bard , who, as a fatherly friend, had given the young Haugwitz a friendly letter of encouragement and support during his first poetic attempts. After returning to Breslau, he joined Christian Garve , then one of the most famous philosophers in Germany. In 1802 he inherited the Weisswasser estate from his father-in-law Anton von Schlegenberg . In the following years Haugwitz lived mainly on his estate Falkenau in Silesia, most recently in Johannisberg , where he died in 1842 at the age of 74. He was married to Amalie, born Countess von Schlegenberg, and the marriage remained childless.

He was primarily recognized as a translator. In 1804 he published a collection of translations of Latin epigrams ( flowers from the Latin anthology ), and in 1818 a first complete translation of Juvenal's satires in the original meter followed , which was very favorably received by philological critics. His own lyric works were initially under the influence of Denis. In 1790 a collection of youth poems appeared, in 1828 a collection of epigrams. More appeared scattered in the Göttingen and Leipzig muse almanacs and elsewhere. Haugwitz's wife died in 1834, to whom he dedicated a lyrical farewell ( flowers on her grave ). In 1789 he wrote a pamphlet that was directed against the appearances of a traveling French magnetizer named Dufour in Silesia.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Klemenz: Otto Graf Haugwitz, Josef Freiherr von Eichendorff, Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz, three former Matthesians and contemporary poets. In: 300 years of Matthias High School in Breslau 1638–1938. A reminder. Breslau 1938, pp. 129-142.
  2. Falkenau, Grottkau district, Upper Silesia; today Chróścina , Skoroszyce municipality in the powiat Nyski , Opole Voivodeship
  3. Not proven.
  4. Against the hustle and bustle of Dufour. In: Schlesische Provinzialblätter 1789, pp. 197–212. Cf. Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated peoples. Volume 28. Gent 1840, p. 411 f.http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DuVYVAAAAQAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA411~ double-sided%3D~LT%3DS.%20411%26%23x202f%3Bf.~PUR% 3D