Theobald Kerner
Theobald Kerner (born June 14, 1817 in Gaildorf ; † August 11, 1907 in Weinsberg ) was a German doctor and poet and son of Justinus Kerner .
Life
From 1835 he studied medicine in Tübingen , Munich , Würzburg and Vienna . After completing his studies, he supported his father from 1840 in his practice in Weinsberg.
At this time he met his first wife, Marie Luise Elisabeth von Hügel, six years his senior , born Freiin von Uexküll-Gyllenband (* December 24, 1811 - June 20, 1862 in Cannstatt ), whom he treated in his father's practice. Against his father's resistance, he took up a relationship with her. She separated from her husband, the Eschenau landowner, chamberlain and captain Ernst Albert von Hügel , and was initially accepted by Eduard Mörike in the Cleversulzbach rectory. In 1843 this first marriage was divorced. His second marriage to Theobald Kerner on June 29, 1844 in Mergentheim resulted in three children:
- The daughter Gabriele Josefine (* May 22, 1844 in Weinsberg; † October 8, 1844 in Weinsberg) lived only a few months.
- The daughter Justina Maria (born October 5, 1846 in Weinsberg; † February 12, 1941 in Weinsberg) was an artist and married the doctor and painter Alexis Bruno Theodor Puhlmann on June 2, 1872 in Stuttgart . The marriage remained childless. From 1883 to 1938 she lived in Agudo , Brazil .
- The son Georg Michael Theobald Maria (born September 10, 1850 in Weinsberg; † April 11, 1930 in Rothaus, Grafenhausen community ) was a doctor and practiced in Wehr (Baden) since 1877 . On April 23, 1878, he married Ida Hansen in Freiburg im Breisgau. The marriage remained childless.
At the time of the March Revolution of 1848/49 , Theobald Kerner was politically active, becoming a captain in the vigilante group and city council in Weinsberg. His father complained in a letter to Ludwig Uhland that his son sympathized with Friedrich Hecker . At a meeting in Heilbronn on September 10, 1848, he gave a seditious speech in which he acknowledged his democratic and republican sentiments. He was warned by a gendarme that he was about to be arrested and escaped to Strasbourg on September 25th by fleeing abroad . For family reasons he returned on April 7, 1849 and was initially released on bail. He ran for election to the constitution-revising state assembly of Württemberg in the Weinsberg constituency, but after a bitter election campaign in the second ballot on September 10, 1849, he was defeated by the Weinsberg city schoolboy Franz Fraas , whose relationship with the Kerner family was tense due to different political views. On September 7, 1850 Theobald Kerner was incitement to treason by the circuit court in Ludwigsburg to ten months imprisonment sentenced, he November 1850 to April 1851 on the Hohenasperg was serving until he was released early at the instigation of his father. He then worked as a doctor in Stuttgart , later in Cannstatt, a galvano-magnetic sanatorium until, after the death of his father and his wife in 1862, he settled as a doctor in Weinsberg and took over his father's practice.
After the death of his first wife on June 20, 1862, Theobald Kerner married Mathilde Hochstätter (born February 25, 1847 in Darmstadt ), the daughter of a wealthy Darmstadt wallpaper manufacturer, on June 4, 1868 , by him “Goldelse” and “Die Schöne Else ”(the additional first name Else was added to her civil registry office in 1883). She had come to Heilbronn on a trip after her teacher’s examination, met Theobald Kerner on a trip to the hunter’s house and spontaneously got engaged to him. Against the opposition of her divorced parents, who had planned other marriage candidates for her, she got married to Theobald Kerner with the support of her Ludwigsburg grandmother, who adored the poems of Justinus Kerner.
Theobald Kerner's second marriage remained childless. In 1877, his wife inherited the great fortune of her father, which made the Kerners financially independent and enabled them to live an upper-class lifestyle with extensive trips and winter stays of several months in Stuttgart, Munich or Baden-Baden, including extensive participation in local social life.
After the death of his father in 1862, Theobald Kerner took care of his estate. In 1865 he expanded the Weinsberg Kernerhaus to include the monument garden , and around 1880 he also had the building significantly expanded. On his 80th birthday on June 14, 1897, he became an honorary citizen of his hometown of Weinsberg. He sold Justinus Kerner's literary estate in 1902 to the Schiller National Museum in Marbach am Neckar, to which most of his own estate also went after his death in 1907. His second wife Else sold the Kernerhaus with its literary and artistic content to the Kernerverein, which was founded on January 23, 1905 with the aim of preserving the house as a literary memorial. After the house was sold, she moved to Baden-Baden, where she died on May 31, 1931.
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Well-known works by Kerner include a .:
- The Kernerhaus and his guests (1894), in which he reports on life in his parents' house, and
- Princess Klatschrose (1851), a picture book for children.
He also wrote political and historical poems, natural poems, novellas and more.
In 1897 he published his father's correspondence in two volumes with Ernst Müller:
- Theobald Kerner: Justinus Kerner's correspondence with his friends. Published by his son Theobald Kerner. Explained by introductions and comments by Ernst Müller. 2 volumes. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1897, Volume 1 , Volume 2 .
literature
- Ulrich Maier: "Who loves freedom ..." Theobald Kerner, poet, critic of the times and democrat. Edited by the city of Weinsberg. Verlag Nachrichtenblatt der Stadt Weinsberg, Weinsberg 1992, ISBN 3-9802689-5-0 .
- Kurt Seeber: Theobald Kerner. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 528 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Kurt Seeber: From Justinus Kerner's ancestors and descendants. In: Yearbook for Swabian-Franconian History. Volume 28. Heilbronn Historical Association, Heilbronn 1976, pp. 281–288.
Web links
- Literature by and about Theobald Kerner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Theobald Kerner in the German Digital Library
- Theobald Kerner at Justinus-Kerner and Weinsberg Women's Association
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kerner, Theobald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gaildorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1907 |
| Place of death | Weinberg |