Philipp Galen

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Philipp Galen

Philipp Galen (born December 21, 1813 in Potsdam as Ernst Philipp Karl Lange ; † February 18, 1899 there ) was a German writer and doctor . His pseudonym Galen , an anagram of his name Lange , came into being with the publication of his novel The Island King . It is unclear whether this happened without authorization and without his knowledge, but whether he retained this name as a writer from now on (this version comes from the German House Library ), or whether he used this artist name based on the Greek doctor and researcher Galenus von Pergamon himself gave.

Life

His parents were the court doctor Friedrich Lange († 1886) and his wife Christiana Gericke. His father was a doctor for Friedrich Wilhelm III. and Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

His first literary pieces were created while he was still at school. a. the play Friedrich von Rheinsberg .

After completing his school education, however, he began studying medicine in Berlin to become a doctor like his father. After graduating, he accepted a position as a surgeon at the Berlin Charité . In 1845 he took up the position of assistant doctor in the Potsdam Cadet Corps. A short time later he became a senior physician and in 1847 came to Bielefeld as a medical officer , where he met his future wife. After his wedding, he practiced as a country doctor in the Teutoburg Forest for a short time . There he devoted himself to writing in addition to his work, because he feared that the hard job of a country doctor would not be able to support himself and his family. In 1849 he took part in the campaign in Schleswig as chief physician ; various other missions followed. In 1858 he moved to Potsdam. At the age of 70, Philipp Galen retired. He died in Potsdam at the age of 85. According to the information in the Handbook of Freemasonry (Volume 1. 1900, pp. 593f.) Galen was a member of the Freemasons Association .

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His daughter Else Galen-Gube, who also became a writer, comes from his marriage to Marie Louise Körner, a relative of Friedrich Körner . She wrote mainly poems and short stories and had her father's novel The Strandvogt von Jasmund reprinted in 1905. In the novel, which had cult status on Rügen , he described Rügen in a historicizing story during the time of the French occupation (1807 to 1813) in the style of a cloak and sword novel. The Strandvogt von Jasmund was reprinted many times after 1905, according to the taste of the age, for example in Leipzig or later in Berlin in the GDR series Kompass or Exciting told . The shortest retelling is the retold story with 120 pages that appeared in A6 in 1938 at the Meynkeschen publishing house. The original from 1958 was in three volumes on thin paper. Today's edition from 1997 by the publishing house ostSeh comprises 624 pages in one volume.

For a long time it was not known why Galen knew Rügen and the Baltic Sea region so well. In the meantime it became known through research on adventure literature AbLIT that his friendship with Balduin Möllhausen may be responsible for it. This adventure writer, who was ten years his junior and who conducted expeditions himself, grew up as a foster son in a family near Garz on Rügen.

Both authors are now considered to be the founders of the then still unknown genre of adventure literature . Karl May was probably inspired by these two (according to the Karl May Museum in Radebeul). There is still Galen's handwriting from Bielefeld, in which he says goodbye to his conversation partner from the previous evening and says greetings for someone.

His literary work mainly includes novels and short stories as well as a play. His novels are mainly society novels ; his most important and still regularly published work, the novel Der Irre von St. James , is considered a detective novel . When it was published, Galen was accused of plagiarism for a long time , as he had never been to England himself and the British critics nevertheless rated his description of the country and its people as brilliant. He received a lot of inspiration for his works through his work as a doctor. He is sometimes referred to as the German Walter Scott . In at least four cases, the subjects of his actions were located in the Baltic Sea region in his early years, but his creative focus later shifted to Switzerland, with the focus on traveling .

Readings on and about, but above all with the novels by Ernst Philipp Carl Lange or Philipp Galen, are still held in various places on Rügen today.

family

On April 27, 1847, he married Marie Körner (born February 19, 1829), the daughter of the police secretary Gustav Adolf Körner (born September 16, 1791 - September 16, 1868) and his second wife Wilhelmine Luise Crusius (born June 17, 1796 ; † September 11, 1872). The couple had at least one daughter named Elisabeth (* December 22, 1868, † February 14, 1922), who married Charles Gube, engineer and brick factory owner in Greiffenberg.

Works

Novels

  • Der Inselkönig , Leipzig 1852, 5 volumes (digital copies: Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 4 , Volume 5 )
  • Der Irre von St. James , Leipzig 1853, 4 volumes
  • Fritz Stilling, Memories from the Life of a Doctor , Leipzig 1854, 4 volumes
  • Walter Lund , Leipzig 1854, 4 volumes
  • Andreas Burns and his family , Leipzig 1856, 4 volumes
  • Baron Brandau and his Junkers , Leipzig 1858
  • Emery Glandon , Leipzig 1859
  • The Strandvogt von Jasmund , life picture during the Rügen occupation by the French (1807 to 1813) Leipzig 1860, 4 volumes
  • The gardener's son , Leipzig 1861
  • Die Insulaner, Rugianisches Characterbild , Leipzig 1861, 4 volumes (plays on the island of Öhe)
  • The lighthouse on Cap Wrath , Leipzig 1862
  • The green fur , Leipzig 1863, 2 volumes
  • The diplomat's daughter , Leipzig 1865, 4 volumes
  • The legacy of Bettys Ruh , Leipzig 1866
  • The will-o'-the-wisp of Argentieres , Berlin 1867, 3 volumes
  • The Lion of Lucerne , Berlin 1869, 5 volumes
  • Irene the dreamer , Berlin 1873, 3 volumes
  • The Rastelbinder , Berlin 1874, 3 volumes
  • Der Alte vom Berg , Berlin 1875, 3 volumes
  • Der Einsiedler vom Abendberg , Berlin 1875, 3 volumes
  • Frei vom Joch , Berlin 1878, 3 volumes
  • The prince servants , Leipzig 1880, 4 volumes
  • Die Perle von der Oie , Leipzig 1880, 4 volumes
  • Der Meier von Monjardin , Munich 1891, 2 volumes

stories

  • Jane, the Jewess , Berlin 1867, 3 volumes
  • The Moselle Mermaid , Berlin 1877, 3 volumes
  • The Pechvogel and other stories , with an introduction by Hans Ziegler, 1883, 4 volumes

Dramas

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Galen, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, Ernst Philipp Karl; Lange, Ernst Philipp Carl; Lange, Ernestus P .; Lange, Ernst P .; Lange, Carl E .; Lange, Carolus; Lange, Carl; Lange, Philipp; Lange, Ernst Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam , Germany
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1899
Place of death Potsdam , Germany