Theodor Mundt

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Theodor Mundt

Theodor Mundt (born September 19, 1808 in Potsdam , † November 30, 1861 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Theodor Mundt's father was a registrar who had died before the son was born. The mother moved with Theodor to Berlin, where he attended the Joachimsthal High School as an 11-year-old and received his school- leaving certificate on October 5, 1825. From October 1825, Theodor Mundt studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Berlin ; in May 1826 he switched to the philosophy faculty. He studied with August Boeckh , Karl Lachmann , Friedrich von Raumer , Heinrich Ritter and Hegel . On April 20, 1830, he received his doctorate in Erlangen with a thesis in the field of classical philology and rhetoric.

During his studies in Berlin, Mundt was given access to journals, for example Moritz Gottlieb Saphir's Berliner Schnellpost for literature, theater and sociability and Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Häring , who published the Berliner Conversations-Blatt under the pseudonym Willibald Alexis, which was published in 1830 with the Was merged boldly .

As a critic and publicist, Mundt was one of the leaders of the Young German movement in the mid-1830s . His novels Modern Life Confusion and Madonna. Conversations with a saint are one of the more important literary productions of the Young Germans. By the Bundestag resolution of December 10, 1835, Mundt's writings - specifically, alongside those of Heinrich Heine , Karl Gutzkow , Ludolf Wienbarg and Heinrich Laube - were banned. In 1840 Mundt delivered a weighty essay on the history of this frowned upon and police-persecuted movement under the title Heine, Börne and the so-called young Germany .

Mundts attempts to gain a professorship failed in 1835, shortly before the inaugural lecture, due to some censorship-critical sentences in his book Madonna . In 1842 Mundt was able to become a private lecturer. Only in the revolutionary year of 1848 did he receive a professorship in Breslau, a year later he was able to return to the University of Berlin as a professor, but was retired in 1851.

Since 1839 he was with Clara Mundt, geb. Müller, married, who wrote numerous biographical and historical novels under the pseudonym Luise Mühlbach and was one of the most popular authors in the second half of the 19th century. The two had two daughters. The daughter Therese (Thea) Ebersberger, married to the painter Max Ebersberger , later became known for her miniature paintings and as the editor of her mother's estate.

Theodor Mundt died in Berlin in 1861 at the age of 53 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Works (selection)

  • The unity of Germany in political and ideal development . Leipzig: FA Brockhaus , 1832.
  • Battle of a Hegelian with the Graces. A philosophical humoresque . In: Theodor Mundt (ed.): Critical forests. Sheets for evaluating the literature, art and science of our time . Leipzig 1833, pp. 33-58.
  • Modern turmoil. Letters and time adventures from a salt scribe . Reichenbach, Leipzig 1834.
  • [Anon .:] Charlotte Stieglitz , a memorial . Veit, Berlin [1835].
  • Madonna. Conversations with a saint . Reichenbach, Leipzig 1835.
  • Characters and situations. Four books, short stories, sketches, hikes while traveling and through the latest literature . 2 volumes, Schmidt & Cossel, Wismar, Leipzig 1837.
  • The art of German prose. Aesthetic, literary history, social . Veit and Comp., Berlin 1837; Facsimile print after the 1st edition. With an afterward v. Hans Düvel. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1969 (German reprints. Text series of the 19th century).
  • Walks and trips around the world . 3 volumes, Hammerich, Altona 1838–1839.
  • Heine , Börne and the so-called Junge Deutschland. Fragments. 1-9 In: The Freeport . Altona, 1840, No. 4, pp. 182-274
  • Thomas Müntzer . A German novel . Hammerich, Altona 1841. ( digitized version )
  • Carmela or the rebaptism. A novel . Kius, Hanover 1844. ( digitized version )
  • Aesthetics. The idea of ​​beauty and the work of art in the light of our time . M. Simion, Berlin 1845; Facsimile print after the 1st edition. With an afterward v. Hans Düvel. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1966 (German reprints. Texts series of the 19th century).
  • Dramaturgy or Theory and History of Dramatic Art . 2 volumes, M. Simion, Berlin 1848
  • The matadors. A novel from the present . 2 volumes, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1850 ( digitized version )
  • Niccolò Machiavelli and the course of European politics . Leipzig 1851 ( digitized 3rd edition 1861 )
  • History of contemporary literature. Lectures. From the year 1789 to the present day . Simion, Leipzig 1853. (Revised and expanded version of the first edition from 1842.)
  • History of the German estates after their social development and political representation . Berlin 1854 ( digitized )
  • Paris emperor sketches . 2 volumes, Janke, Berlin 1857.
  • Italian states . Second part: Rome and Pius IX . Otto Janke, Berlin 1859.

Periodicals published by Mundt

literature

  • Franz Brümmer :  Mundt, Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 10-12.
  • Otto Draeger: Theodor Mundt and his relationship with Young Germany . Elwert, Marburg 1909.
  • Hubertus Fischer: Theodor Mundt 1848 . In: Yearbook for the history of Central and Eastern Germany . Volume 47, 2001. Saur, Munich 2002, pp. 137-192.
  • Walter Grupe: Mundt's and Kühne's relationship to Hegel and his opponents . Niemeyer, Halle / Saale 1928 (Hermae 2).
  • Walter Hömberg : Zeitgeist and idea smuggling. The communication strategy of Junge Deutschland . Metzler, Stuttgart 1975 (phil. Diss. Salzburg 1973).
  • Petra Hartmann : “Drunk with the future and not full of the present”. Theodor Mundt's literary development from the “book of movement” to the historical novel . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2003. ISBN 3-89528-390-8
  • Heinrich Hubert Houben : Theodor Mundt . In: Heinrich Hubert Houben: Young German Storm and Drang. Results and studies . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1911, pp. 395–502.
  • Heinrich Hubert Houben: Mundt, Theodor (1806-1861) . In: Heinrich Hubert Houben: Forbidden literature from the classical period to the present. A critical-historical encyclopedia about banned books, magazines and plays, writers and publishers . Volume 2, Schünemann, Bremen 1928, pp. 363-498 (Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim [ inter alia] 1992. ISBN 3-487-01027-5 ).
  • Johannes Weber:  Mundt, Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 588-590 ( digitized version ).
  • Wulf Wülfing: Mundt's beginnings . In: Wulf Wülfing: Young Germany. Texts - contexts, images, comments . Hanser, Munich, Vienna 1978. pp. 130-133 (= series of Hanser literary comments [RH 244]). ISBN 3-446-12490-X
  • Wulf Wülfing: Buzzwords of the young Germany. With an introduction to keyword research . E. Schmidt, Berlin 1982 (= Philological Studies and Sources, Book 106), ISBN 3-503-01661-9 (contains a lot of material on Mundt.)

Web links

Commons : Theodor Mundt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Theodor Mundt  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In: The Freeport. Altona. Vol. 1840, No. 4, pp. 182-274
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 306.
personal data
SURNAME Mundt, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1861
Place of death Berlin