Otto von Haugwitz
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.
Works
- Poems. Breslau 1790, digitized .
- Flowers from the Latin anthology. Translation. Breslau 1804, digitized .
- Des Decimus Junius Juvenalis Satyren […] Translation. Leipzig 1818, digitized .
- One hundred epigrams. Wroclaw 1828.
- Flowers on her grave. Breslau 1834/1835.
literature
- Michael Auwers: Haugwitz, Otto von. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, vol. 5, p. 74.
- Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the earliest times to the end of the 18th century. Reclam, Leipzig 1884, sv Haugwitz, Otto Graf von .
- Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 2nd Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1893, vol. 5. p. 431 f .; 1900, vol. 7, p. 430 f .; 1938, vol. 13, p. 219 ; 1959-1991, vol. 17, p. 547 .
- Karl Gabriel Nowack: Silesian writer lexicon or bio-bibliographical directory of the Silesian writers living in the second quarter of the 19th century. Korn, Breslau 1838.
- Hermann Palm: Haugwitz, Otto Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 69.
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto von Haugwitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Settings of poems by Otto von Haugwitz on DeutschesLied.com
Individual evidence
- ^ 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.
- ↑ Falkenau, Grottkau district, Upper Silesia; today Chróścina , Skoroszyce municipality in the powiat Nyski , Opole Voivodeship
- ↑ Not proven.
- ↑ 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.
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SURNAME | Haugwitz, Otto von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator and poet |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1767 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Pischkowitz |
DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1842 |
Place of death | Johannisberg , Silesia |