Siegfried Schmid (Author)

Philipp Siegfried Schmid (born December 16, 1774 in Friedberg (Hesse) , † April 10, 1859 in Vienna ) was a German writer and soldier in Austrian service.

Life

Born as the son of the mayor in Friedberg, Hesse, Schmid studied Protestant theology at the Hessian Ludwig University . In 1794/95 he became a member of the Corps Franconia. He moved to the University of Jena , which him for "dueling" relegated . Living at home without exams, he discovered the poet in himself and sought contact with the greats of his time. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller rejected him. Friedrich Hölderlin and Isaac von Sinclair remained in favor of him. Schmid found a position as court master with a student in Basel and joined the Austrian army as a private cadet. Through the student he succeeded in enrolling at the University of Erlangen , where he studied from 1802 to 1804. With his literary work he received his doctorate there in 1804. His father had him incapacitated because of his exaggeration and admitted to the Hessian hospital for mentally ill regional children in Haina . Sinclair arranged for him to re-enter the Austrian army. After eleven years, he was retired as a semi-invalid. In 1820, at the age of 46, he married a woman six years his junior, against the opposition of his father-in-law.

Works

• Fantasies , Erlangen 1802.
• Lothar or love solves the conflict, fantasies and stories , Erlangen 1818.
• Dramatic works , 2 vols., Leipzig 1842/43.

See also

• Extinct Corps # pouring

literature

• E. Life:  Schmid, (Philipp) Siegfried. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 295 f. (Direct links on p. 295 , p. 296 ).
• Ursula Brauer:  Schmid, Siegfried. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 27, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-393-2 , Sp. 1342-1347.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 49/47