Richard Weltrich
Karl Appollonius Richard Weltrich (born February 10, 1844 in Ansbach , † January 2, 1913 in Munich ) was a German literary historian and author.
Life
The son of a government councilor studied philosophy , aesthetics , literary history and classical philology at the universities of Munich , Zurich and Erlangen from 1861 to 1865 . He then worked first as a high school teacher and from 1873 as a teacher at the cadet school in Munich. In 1875 he was appointed professor at the Bavarian War Academy . From 1890 he devoted himself increasingly to writing. He began a biography of Friedrich Schiller, of which he only completed the first volume, which covered the years up to 1792 and had almost 900 pages. In 1902 he received his doctorate on the basis of this work at the University of Tübingen .
Works (selection)
- Christian Wagner , the farmer and poet at Warmbronn. An aesthetic-critical and social-ethical study. Strecker, Stuttgart 1897 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Schiller. History of his life and characteristics of his works. Volume 1, Cotta, Stuttgart 1899 (no longer published; digitized ).
- Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde as a poem, along with some general remarks on Wagner's art. Reimer, Berlin 1904 ( digitized version ).
- Schiller's ancestors. A family history investigation. Böhlau, Weimar 1907 ( digitized version ).
- Schiller on the run. Edited by Julius Petersen . Cotta, Stuttgart 1923.
- The author and his biographer. Christian Wagner - Richard Weltrich. An exchange of letters. Edited by Ulrich Wilhelm Weiser. Christian Wagner Society, Warmbronn 2011.
literature
- Weltrich, (Karl Appollonius) Richard. In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition. Vol. 10, p. 536 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Weltrich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Richard Weltrich's estate in the Bavarian State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Hecker , Julius Petersen : Schiller's personality. Judgments of contemporaries and documents. Olms, Hildesheim 1976 (reprint of the Weimar edition 1904–1909), p. 298.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weltrich, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weltrich, Karl Appollonius Richard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary historian and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ansbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 2, 1913 |
| Place of death | Munich |