Theodor von Kobbe

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Theodor von Kobbe

Theodor Christian Cai von Kobbe (born June 8, 1798 in Glückstadt , † February 22, 1845 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a German lawyer , human rights activist and writer .

Life

Theodor von Kobbe was born on June 8th on June 8th and baptized on June 14th, according to serial no. 26 of the birth and baptism register from 1798. His parents were the Hanoverian aristocrat Anton Dietrich von Kobbe and Louise Adelaide Christiane geb. Countess of Rantzau -Ahrenberg. His father held the office of governor on the island of Föhr , his mother was the daughter of the then Uetersen monastery provost Peter zu Rantzau . In 1802 the marriage was divorced. From 1804 to 1814 he attended the Latin school in Uetersen . After his mother's death in 1805, he was raised by his grandfather in Uetersen until he died in 1809. In the same year he was retired from a Uetersen rector . Kobbe was confirmed in 1814 and left Uetersen to attend the Johanneum School of Scholars in Hamburg . From 1817 he studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . As a delegate of the old Heidelberg fraternity there , to which he had been a member since 1817, he took part in the general fraternity meeting in Jena in 1818 . There he visited Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , which is also recorded in his diary under the note “Koppe von Kiel, student in Heidelberg”. In 1819 Kobbe moved to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , where he passed the state examination. In 1820, on the recommendation of his uncle, he entered the civil service of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg as an auditor and a few years later was appointed assessor at the Regional Court of Oldenburg . A lack of professional ambition prevented further advancement. He founded an association for the improvement of the fate of released prisoners and was called an "advocate for the poor and needy", among other things he campaigned wholeheartedly for the abolition of the death penalty . Every summer he traveled extensively and met, among others, Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Tieck , with whom he also maintained correspondence. He also visited Uetersen again and again, where “the dreams of youth wreathed my head”.

Kobbe was considered amiable, funny and a brilliant company. Since he did not get anywhere professionally, he tried from 1822 to use his talent for improvising storytelling as a writer, and from 1830 in particular published numerous short stories , poems, a historical novel, plays, humoresques, autobiographical writings and extensive travel reports in quick succession which he processed the experiences of his annual travels. From 1838 to 1845 he published the weekly humoristic papers , most of which he wrote himself. His poems, novels and stories have been forgotten, and rightly so. Only his memoirs and travel reports are still of interest to historians today as a source of the cultural history of Oldenburg in the Vormärz . Kobbe was a prolific scribe, but cared neither for the form nor the composition of his writings or revised them.

Kobbe was only known to the wider public through his occasional work. In 1844 he wrote the text for the melody Heil dir, o Oldenburg, composed by Grand Duchess Cäcilie .

According to the list of those who died in the parish of Oldenburg in 1845, he died on February 22, 1845 in Oldenburg and was buried on February 28 in the Gertrudenfriedhof (Oldenburg) in Oldenburg .

In various publications (cf. eg General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1885) he is incorrectly listed as Theodor "Christoph August" von Kobbe.

Works

  • The Burschen Erdenwallen, a burlesque (1822)
  • It Was a Dangastic Vacation (1825)
  • The master's lyre in the hands of the disciple, or eighteen poems in a strange manner, and one in one's own , Oldenburg (1826)
  • The Swedes in the Uetersen Monastery , a historical novel , Bremen (1830)
  • The Weser Nymph , year 1, Oldenburg (1831)
  • Short stories in humorous sketches and pictures , Bremen (1833)
  • Travel sketches from Belgium and France , Bremen (1836); (Ed.),
  • as editor: Humoristische Blätter Volume 1 - 8, Oldenburg (from 1839), online 1839
  • Letters about Heligoland and poetic and prosaic attempts in the local dialect , Bremen (1840)
  • Humorous memories from my academic life in Heidelberg and Kiel 1817–1819 , Bremen (1840) (2 volumes)
  • Prießnitz and Graefenberg. From my diary for the entertainment and instruction of all those who have been to the Graefenberg, or those who want to submit to a water cure there or elsewhere , Oldenburg (1841)
  • Humoresques from the Philistine Life , 2 volumes, Bremen (1841)
  • Migrations on the North and Baltic Seas , (1841)
  • Humorous travel pictures , Bremen (1843)
  • Hail to you, O Oldenburg! , Text to the national anthem of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Oldenburg (1844)
  • The heretic court of the Bremen pastors . Schulze in Komm., Oldenburg 1845.
  • Jocosus Bremanus the new comedian of the Bremen Pietist Society . Schulze in Komm., Oldenburg 1845. MDZ READER digitized
  • The North Sea, published in: The picturesque and romantic Germany , Volume 10, Leipzig (1847), Reprint: Hildesheim (1973)
  • Various stories and novels , travel sketches, descriptions of landscapes, legal and political writings and memoirs.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Humorous memories from my academic life in Heidelberg and Kiel 1817-1819 , p. 150 ff. (Google Books page reference 50)
  2. ↑ Humorous memories from my academic life in Heidelberg and Kiel 1817-1819, pp. 214 ff. (Google Books, p. 114)
  3. ↑ Humorous memories from my academic life in Heidelberg and Kiel (Google Books accessed on April 25, 2012) see also online 1840
  4. ↑ Hikes on the North and Baltic Seas Theodor von Kobbe and Wilhelm Cornelius

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personal data
SURNAME Kobbe, Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kobbe, Theodor Christian Cai von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, human rights activist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Glückstadt
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1845
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)