Traugott von Stackelberg
Traugott von Stackelberg (born March 18, 1891 in Reval ; † November 8, 1970 in Tengen ) was a Baltic German author .
Life
Nikolaus Johannes Traugott Freiherr von Stackelberg comes from the Baltic nobility and was born on March 18, 1891 in Reval. After finishing school in Reval and Berlin, he studied medicine in Germany and Finland. For political reasons he was deported to Northeast Siberia from 1915 to 1918, where, working as a doctor, he got to know and love the country and its people. The document of these years is Beloved Siberia (published in 1951), a report of undamaged nature and unswerving humanity. After the First World War , he passed his state examination under Ferdinand Sauerbruch in Berlin and also took courses in portrait and life drawing. From 1925 von Stackelberg lived with his family as a doctor on the Degenhof near Tengen in Hegau. At the age he gathered his small, simple stories from Estonia and Russia in the volumes Winter Tales (1953), Cornet of Zarin (1954), The Bear Claw (1956) and The cutter Kodumaa (1962). His only novel, Manon de Carmignac (1952), tells of the great love of a Baltic baron and a Berlin Huguenot. After seeing Russia again in 1967, he published his travelogue On Your Own Track (1968). Traugott von Stackelberg died on November 8, 1970.
He was married to the factory owner's daughter and doctor Helene Lohmann (1895–1964) since 1920.
His son Jürgen Freiherr von Stackelberg (1925–2020) was professor of Romance philology at the University of Göttingen.
Fonts
- Beloved Siberia. Verlag Günther Neske, Pfullingen 1951 (13th edition 1983).
- Manon de Carmignac. Publishing house Günther Neske, Pfullingen 1952.
- Winter tales. Publishing house Günther Neske, Pfullingen 1953.
- Cornet of the Tsarina. Publishing house Günther Neske, Pfullingen 1954.
- The bear's claw. Günther Neske publishing house, Pfullingen 1956.
- The Kodumaa cutter. Flamberg Verlag, Zurich / Stuttgart 1962.
- The most beautiful stories. Günther Neske publishing house, Pfullingen 1962.
- On our own trail, Günther Neske publishing house, Pfullingen 1968.
literature
- Hubertus Neuschäffer: Stackelberg, Nikolaus Johannes Traugott Freiherr von. Writer . In: East German memorial days. Personalities and historical events , 1991, pp. 62–64.
- Gero von Wilpert: German Baltic literary history . CH Beck, Munich 2005.
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1225-1226 .
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Traugott von Stackelberg. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stackelberg, Traugott von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German doctor, painter and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1970 |
| Place of death | Tengen |