Richard von Meerheimb
Richard von Meerheimb , also Meerheim , (born January 14, 1825 in Großenhain , † January 16, 1896 in Loschwitz ; full name Richard Albert von Meerheimb ) was a Saxon colonel and writer ( pseudonym Hugo von Meer ).
Life
Richard von Meerheimb comes from the Saxon branch of the (von) Meerheim (b) family . He was a grandson of Professor Gottfried August Meerheim from Wittenberg and the son of the Saxon cavalry officer Franz Ludwig August von Meerheim (b) (1785-1858), who in 1844 was recognized by the Saxon nobility.
In 1839 he joined the Saxon cadet corps and in 1842 joined the Leib-Infantry Regiment in Dresden as a portepeejunker . Here he was appointed officer in 1844. In 1849 he took part in the fight against the Dresden May Uprising and was promoted to captain ; In 1866 he was used as a company commander in the German war against Prussia . On June 29, 1866, he was seriously wounded in the Battle of Gitschin . In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he was a lieutenant colonel in the 4th Infantry Regiment No. 103. He then took his leave as a colonel and took up residence in Dresden.
Around 1880 he fell ill with a lung disease and sought recovery in Cortina d`Ampezzo. He was healed and out of gratitude he donated money to the local section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, with the condition that the amount be used to build a refuge. The hut was opened as the first of its kind in the Dolomites on August 11, 1883 as the “ Sachsendankhütte ” and is still in existence today.
He died after a serious illness in the Loschwitz Sanatorium and was buried in the Inner Neustädter Friedhof .
plant
Meerheimb worked as a writer and translator from an early age and initially published ballads and short stories. His first major work was the heroic poem Gulat und Tschadra (1848) about the Circassian battles . In 1860 he published the memoirs of a veteran from Russia of his father. Most of his poems tie in with the conditions and relationships of individual social circles or with events of the time and daily currents.
For the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie he wrote 46 mostly military biographies in volumes A to K.
In the later years of his life he was one of the first to experiment with the art form of monodrama and founded the Litterarian Society Psychodrama in 1892 to maintain it . He is considered to be the one who coined the term psychodrama and thus influenced Rainer Maria Rilke , among others .
Awards
- Military Order of St. Heinrich
- Order of the Iron Crown
- Order of Franz I.
- Saxony-Ernestine House Order
- Iron Cross
estate
His estate can be found in the Saxon State Archives, Main State Archives Dresden .
Fonts
- The Saxons on the Moskva. 1853
- Soldier world. 1857
- World of poets. 1859
- Down with Babylon. 1861
- Women's world. 1862
- Trutz Denmark and Copenhagen. 1863
- Paul Kinishi. 1865
- War and suffering journeys of a seriously wounded man. 1866
- Princely world. 1873
- From Palermo to Gaëta: The struggle in Italy for throne and throne honor 1860–1861. Dresden 1865
- Melodrama world. 1886
- Psychodramatic material. 1888
- A night on the floor in 1896
literature
- Franz Brummer: Meerheimb, Richard von. In: Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. 30/1, Berlin: Reimer, pp. 258-259.
- Bernhard von Poten : Meerheimb, Richard von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 282 f.
- Cornelia Herold: Meerheimb (Meerheim), Richard Albert von (pseudonym: Hugo vom Meer) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Sachsendankhütte on dolomiti.org
- ↑ Horst Gundlach: Psychodramas. On the history of psycho-trivia , in: Nachrichtenblatt Geschichte der Psychologie 1986, 8, pp. 27–31
- ^ Rüdiger Görner (ed.): Rainer Maria Rilke. (Paths of research 638) Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1987 ISBN 978-3-534-01233-6 , p. 27ff
- ↑ 12733 - Richard Albert von Meerheimb's personal estate ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 13, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meerheimb, Richard von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meerheimb, Richard Albert von (full name); Meerheim, Richard von; Meer, Hugo von (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon colonel and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grossenhain |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1896 |
| Place of death | Loschwitz |