Robert from Bayer

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Portrait of Robert von Bayer
supplement to the Darmstädter Tagblatt, no. 38/1890

Karl Emmerich Robert von Bayer (born April 15, 1835 in Bregenz , † June 30, 1902 in Baden near Vienna ) was an Austrian writer . His pseudonym was Robert Byr .

Robert von Bayer received his education at the military academy in Wiener Neustadt , from which he joined the Count Radetzky hussar regiment as a lieutenant . In 1859 he was Rittmeister and assigned to the General Staff during the Italian campaign .

After the peace treaty, Bayer embarked on a career as a writer with his cantonment pictures (Prague 1860), then retired from active service in 1862 and moved to his place of birth, where he lived for a long time.

Robert von Bayer was related by marriage to the writer Alfred Meißner and after Meißner's death in 1885 became his estate administrator. From 1872 to 1899 he represented Austria on the board of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , of which he was made an honorary member in 1893.

Works

Bayer was a novelist; his dramas: Lady Gloster (1869) and Der wunde Fleck (1872) have remained isolated and unsuccessful attempts. Bayer has described the life of a soldier, except in the work cited above, in:

  • Austrian garrisons (Hamburg 1863), digitized
  • On the ward (Berlin 1865)
  • Anno Neun und Dreizehn (Innsbruck 1865), digitized , biographical images from the German freedom struggles, reveals the soldiers.

The novels play in a different sphere:

  • A German Count House (Berlin 1866)
  • With a brazen brow (Berlin 1868), digitized
  • The struggle for existence (Jena 1869), digitized
  • Sphinx (Berlin 1870), digitized
  • Nomads (Leipzig 1871), digitized
  • On a Sloping Track (Berlin 1872)
  • Wreck (Leipzig 1873)
  • Quatuor (novellas, Leipzig. 1875)
  • Larvae (Berlin 1876)
  • A secret dispatch (Jena 1880)
  • Sesame (Stuttgart 1880)
  • Implacable (Jena 1882)
  • Andor (Stuttgart 1883)
  • Lydia (Jena 1883)
  • Should I? (Jena. 1884)

Articles available online:

  • Robert Byr: Witches Trials in Bregenz , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 15th year 1886, pp. 215–226 ( digitized version )

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Robert Byr  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of the association's history , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 136 (2018), p. 220.