Heinrich Ludwig Robert Giseke
Heinrich Ludwig Robert Giseke (born January 15, 1827 in Marienwerder in Prussia , † December 12, 1890 in Leubus ) was a German journalist and writer .
Life
Giseke was the great-grandson of the writer Nikolaus Dietrich Giseke . At the age of 19, Giseke began to study history, philosophy and theology at the universities of Breslau , Halle and Berlin from 1846 . During his studies in 1846 he became a member of the old Breslau fraternity Arminia and was a co-founder of the Breslau fraternity Teutonia .
In 1848 he took part in the Wartburg Festival.
Due to the political events of the March Revolution in 1849, the Frankfurt National Assembly had to give up its activities in Frankfurt and relocate to Stuttgart. When this rump parliament was due to be closed, Giseke joined the public protest; which meant exclusion from civil service for him.
From then on, he earned his living as a writer and journalist, having successfully made his debut as a novelist in 1850 with his cycle of novels, Modern Titans . From 1852 Giseke worked as editor of the Novellenzeitung in Leipzig and in 1859 switched to the Constitutional Newspaper in Dresden as a columnist for two years .
In 1861 he settled in Coburg as a writer and returned to Berlin two years later. In 1866 Giseke fell ill with a mental illness; He was treated in the sanatorium in the former Cistercian Abbey of Leubus Monastery near Wroclaw. Then Giseke lived alternately in Breslau and Görlitz.
Works (selection)
- Modern titans, little people in big time. 3 vols. Leipzig: Brockhaus 1850 (published anonymously)
- Parish Roses. An idyll from our time. 2 vols. Bremen: Schlodtmann 1851
- Carrière! A thumbnail from the present. 2 vols. Leipzig: Wienbrack 1853
- Small and big world. A picture of life. 3 vols. Leipzig: Brockhaus 1853
- Modern titans. A novel of the present. (2nd, revised edition.) 3 vols. Leipzig: Brockhaus 1853
- Va banque. Bourgeois drama in 4 acts. Leipzig: Sturm & Koppe 1855
- Moritz of Saxony. Patriotic tragedy in 5 acts. Leipzig: Wedge 1860
- Lucifer or the demagogues. Drama in 5 acts. Leipzig: Brockhaus 1861
- Otto Ludwig Brook. Novel . Leipzig 1862
- Käthchen. Novel . Wroclaw 1864
- Dramatic images from German history . Leipzig: Brockhaus 1865 (revision of his works A Mayor of Berlin , The Grand Master of Marienburg and The Burgrave of Nuremberg )
- The two Cagliostro. Comedy . Leipzig 1872
- The cabalist in the Inquisition. An intelligence comedy. Leipzig: Mutze 1880 (published anonymously)
literature
- Dirk Göttsche: Time in the Novel. Literary time reflection and the history of the time novel in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Fink, Munich 2001. (In it p. 666–670 about Giseke's novel Modern Titans, Little People in Great Times .)
- Richard M. Meyer : Giseke, Robert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 367 f.
- Robert Prutz : Robert Giseke. In: Robert Prutz: The German literature of the present. 1848-1858. Vol. 2. Voigt u. Günther, Leipzig 1859, pp. 201–207
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 251-252.
Web links
- Transcriptions (Modern Titans; Carrière! Etc. ) at ngiyaw eBooks
- Works by Heinrich Ludwig Robert Giseke in the Gutenberg-DE project
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giseke, Heinrich Ludwig Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marienwerder , Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1890 |
| Place of death | Leubus |