Stephan von Millenkovich

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Stephan von Millenkovich 1912
Stephan Milow 1876
Honorary grave Mödling
Memorial plaque in Schürffgasse

Stephan von Millenkovich ( pseudonym : Stephan Milow ) (born March 9, 1836 in Orsowa ( Banat ), Austrian Empire ; † March 12, 1915 in Mödling , Lower Austria ) was a poet , narrator , officer and cartographer and father of Max von Millenkovich ( pseud. Max Morold) and Benno von Millenkovich .

Life

Stephan von Millenkovich, son of the kuk Colonel Stephan von Millenkovich of the same name (raised to the nobility in 1835) and his wife Maria (née Pausz), like other Austrian poets and writers, came from a family of officers. He and his five brothers were destined for a military career and so he went to the cadet school in Olomouc for military training and was already a lieutenant in an infantry regiment in Vienna at the age of sixteen.

In Vienna in 1854 he met a comrade who was striving to the same extent, Lieutenant Ferdinand von Saar , with whom he had an intimate, lifelong friendship.

Its use in the troops was short-lived, however, because as early as 1854 he was called in for use at the Military Geographic Institute, where he remained throughout his entire military service. There he brought it to the captain. Stephan von Millenkovich extended the map of the area around Vienna.

Millenkovich was mainly active as a poet and novelist. Both Ferdinand Kürnberger , a close friend of Millenkovich and Peter Rosegger, and Robert Hamerling were among the first to appreciate and appreciate his poetic work.

In 1865 he married Elisabeth Maria Josepha Carolina (nickname Elsa - nee Reichsfreiin von Reichlin-Meldegg), daughter of the Imperial and Royal Major and Commander Joseph Ludwig Christoph Baron Reichlin-Meldegg and his wife Baroness Mathilde Henriette Genofeva (born Countess von Wimpffen).

In 1869 he retired as a captain due to a nervous disorder, probably caused by a severe cold while mapping work in the Lower Austrian mountains, and from then on devoted himself entirely to poetry.

Millenkovich's literary work was shaped by the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Weimar Classic.

In 1870 Millenkovich sold his property in Gonobitz (today Slovenske Konjice ) and bought a small property with a farm (today Georgi Castle ) in Ehrenhausen and settled with his family in Styria, where Ferdinand von Saar often visited him and “die Steinklopfer “Wrote.

In 1873 he took Ferdinand von Saar on a trip to Italy to alleviate his illness.

In 1880 Stephan Millenkovich moved to Gorizia due to persistent sickness.

At the end of 1899, he and his wife Elisabeth withdrew to Mödling near Vienna, where he remained until his death in 1915.

Today the Stephan Milow-Gasse and a memorial plaque on his house in Mödling remind of the “German-Austrian” poet. Josef Kolleritsch (1897–1966) set the poem “Before the End” by Stephan Milow to music in memory of his 100th birthday.

Stephan Millenkovich rests in a grave of honor in the Mödlinger Friedhof (group H, number 41).

Awards and honors

  • 1902 Bauernfeld Prize
  • 1911 On its 75th birthday, the Marktgasse in Mödling was renamed Stephan-Milow-Gasse

Works

  • 1865 Publication of the first volume of poetry
  • 1866 Lost luck, first prose work
  • 1867 On the floe
  • 1869 A song about humanity
  • 1870 new poems
  • 1872 Two novels, "Life Sketches of Arnold Frank", which was to become his greatest success as an author
  • 1877 At the solstice
  • 1882 complete edition of his previously published poems
  • 1883 Three novels: How hearts love
  • 1885 German elegies (modified edition of the elegy cycle "Auf der Scholle")
  • 1888 Three dramas: debt redeemed, the harmless woman, afflicted hearts
  • 1888 vital forces, four-part novel (social and political problems of the monarchy)
  • 1889 From the south, new poems
  • 1893 short stories: Frauenliebe
  • 1897 Narrative poems "Ups and Downs", (improved edition "Song of Mankind")
  • 1903 Fallende Blätter, (Verlag F. Leichter in Ohlau)
  • 1907 Beyond love, acting, online
  • 1912 afterglow
  • 1913 First and Last Love (his last published prose work)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Millenkovich, Stephan von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milow, Stephan (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet, storyteller and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Orșova , Banat
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1915
Place of death Mödling , Lower Austria