Theodor Amelang
Hermann Theodor Amelang (born November 18, 1812 in Berlin ; † August 22, 1844 there ) was a German lawyer and poet .
Life
Amelang, one of four sons from a Berlin family, lost his mother at an early age. At the age of 17, he left the Friedrichswerder high school as one of the best in his class and began studying law at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg . As a student, he roamed Switzerland and Northern Italy on foot . After passing his legal exam, he became auscultator at the Berlin City Court in 1833 and legal trainee at the Court of Appeal in 1835 . In addition to his official work, he was mainly interested in art; practically he practiced portrait drawing.
In 1837, shortly before his third legal exam, he fell while riding and suffered a serious injury from being kicked, which tied him to his sick bed for a long time. He did not regain his health. The constant suffering from his ailing body was accompanied by an "irritability" that made reading and writing and thus his legal work difficult. Then he decided to devote himself to painting . His disabilities thwarted this plan. He was more successful as a poet. His friend Ehrenreich Eichholz published his poems posthumously in 1844 , which towards the end of his life turned from the visual arts more and more to the social and ideological questions of Vormärz .
The composer Franz Abt had a setting of Amelang's poem Fern published in 1846 (op. 54, six songs for 1 voice with piano accompaniment ). Amelang's poems were still very well received in the 1870s, especially among young women.
poetry
- Poems . With an afterword by Ehrenreich Eichholz , FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1844 ( Google Books , digitized version ).
literature
- Ehrenreich Eichholz : Theodor Amelang . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . 32nd year (1844), part 2, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1846, p. 604 ( Google Books ).
- Amelang, Theodor . In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . 6th completely revised and greatly increased edition, Leipzig 1913, p. 57 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personnel chronicle . In: Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam and the City of Berlin . July 12, 1833 edition, Supplement, p. 169 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Fern , website in the lieder.net portal , accessed on February 18, 2020
- ↑ From all capitals: Leipzig . In: Over land and sea. Allgemeine Illustrirte Zeitung . Issue No. 48 from September 1872, Volume 38, Volume 14, Book 2 ( Google Books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amelang, Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Amelang, Hermann Theodor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 22, 1844 |
| Place of death | Berlin |