Rochus of Liliencron

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Rochus of Liliencron

Rochus Wilhelm Traugott Heinrich Ferdinand Freiherr von Liliencron (born December 8, 1820 in Plön , † March 5, 1912 in Koblenz ) was a Germanist , music historian and founder of German folk song research. Today he is best known as the editor of the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .

Life

Rochus von Liliencron was a son of the Danish General War Commissioner Ludwig Carl Freiherrn von Liliencron (1777–1846) and his wife Juliane, née Countess von Luckner (1788–1863). Rochus von Liliencron was an uncle of the poet Detlev von Liliencron and the writer Sophie Wörishöffer . Liliencron married Luise Tutein (1826–1908) in Lübeck in 1851 . The marriage resulted in two sons and three daughters, including the later Prussian Major General Luiz von Liliencron (1865–1937).

education

Liliencron initially received private tuition in his parents' house, Gut Dollrott in the community of Dollrottfeld ( fishing ). He then attended the grammar school in Plön and the Katharineum in Lübeck until graduation at Easter 1840. Liliencron studied Protestant theology and oriental languages at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , law and history at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . Finally, Liliencron studied German with Karl Müllenhoff in Kiel, where he received his doctorate in 1846 with his dissertation on Neidhart's courtly village poetry . While visiting his brother in Copenhagen he got to know the poetry of Hans Christian Andersen and the actress Johanne Luise Heiberg . In Copenhagen Liliencron conducted studies on Scandinavian literature . Following his habilitation in March 1848 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, he only taught briefly as a private lecturer .

Kiel, Berlin and Saxony-Meiningen

Despite his close personal ties to Denmark , he made himself available to the provisional government in Kiel at the beginning of the Schleswig-Holstein uprising : he represented their interests at the Krone Hannover . Then Liliencron became the secretary in the Foreign Affairs Office under Count Reventlou , first in Rendsburg and later in Schleswig . From the beginning of 1849 he was a diplomat in Berlin . Because of his work in Berlin, he was only able to take up a new professorship for Nordic languages ​​at the University of Kiel, which was created for him in 1850. Since he lost his teaching post in Kiel after the full restoration of Danish rule in the duchies, he went in 1852 as an associate professor for German literature at the University of Jena . The successor to Johann Andreas Schmeller at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he was striving for, was unsuccessful.

Since 1855 Liliencron was in the service of Bernhard II (Sachsen-Meiningen) as diplomat, director of the court orchestra and court librarian . After the duke's abdication on September 20, 1866 in favor of Hereditary Prince George II (Saxony-Meiningen) , Liliencron's position became difficult, so that he resigned in 1868.

The Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences commissioned him in 1869 to edit the General German Biography . Its 56 volumes with more than 26,500 articles appeared from 1875 to 1912.

1876 Liliencron provost of the ladies pin St. John's Monastery before Schleswig . He held this position until 1908. During this time Liliencron was able to contribute to the reconciliation between the houses of Hohenzollern and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg : in 1880 he negotiated the marriage contract between the future Empress Auguste Victoria and the Crown Prince Wilhelm , who later became Emperor, for the ducal Augustenburg family Wilhelm II.

Liliencron headed the Prussian Music History Commission as chairman from 1900 to 1911 . Under his leadership the commission brought out 42 volumes of the monuments of German music art . In addition, Liliencron founded folk song research in Germany and was chairman of the working committee for the creation of a folk song book for male choirs , which the commission published in 1906 at the instigation of Kaiser Wilhelm II .

From 1908 until his death in 1912, Liliencron lived with his daughter Hedwig Freifrau von Rheinbaben in Berlin and Koblenz .

Memberships

Honors

  • Title Wiklicher Privy Council , combined with the title of excellence (August 17, 1896 for the 50th anniversary of the doctorate)

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tomb

The family grave is located in Berlin's Luisenfriedhof II . The grave is in field II M-13-24. It was dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave from 1956 to 2014.

Monographs

  • About Neidhart's courtly village poetry. Dissertation. In: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 6/1849, pp. 69–117.
  • Count Ourem or Strength and Power. Tragedy in five acts. Schwers'sche Buchhandlung, Kiel 1844.
  • To the doctrine of runes. Two papers. Together with Karl Müllenhoff . Schwetschke, Halle 1852 Internet Archive.
  • About choral singing in the Protestant church. Habel, Berlin 1880.
  • German life in folk songs around 1530 . Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaf, Berlin / Stuttgart 1884.
  • Liturgical and musical history of Protestant services from 1523–1700 . Schleswig 1893.
  • The rune stone from Gottorp . King Sigtrygg's stone in the Schleswig-Holstein Museum of Patriotic Antiquities in Kiel. University bookstore, Kiel 1888.
  • Happy youth days. Life memories. Told to children and grandchildren. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902.
  • How to make music in Amwald. The seventh mortal sin. Novellas. Leipzig 1903.
    • New edition: How to make music in Amwald. Travel letters to my daughter. Reich, Hamburg-Bergstedt 1957.

editor

General German biography, title page
  • General German biography . Volumes 1-56. Leipzig 1875–1912.
  • Johannes Rothe : Düringische Chronik. Association for Thuringian history and antiquity. Frommann, Jena 1859.
  • The historical folk songs of the Germans from the 13th to the 16th century . 5 volumes. Vogel, Leipzig 1865–1869.
  • Aegidius Albertinus : Lucifer's kingdom and soul jealousy. German national literature. Historically critical edition 26th volume. Spemann, Berlin 1884.

literature

Web links

Commons : Rochus von Liliencron  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Rochus von Liliencron  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 379
  2. ↑ Comenius-Blätter für Volkserbildung 4 (1896), p. 142
  3. ↑ Orders and their order according to the manual on the Royal Prussian Court and State. 1908, p. 58.
personal data
SURNAME Liliencron, Rochus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liliencron, Rochus Wilhelm Traugott Heinrich Ferdinand Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Plön
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1912
Place of death Koblenz