Valerian Tornius

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Valerian Tornius (also: Valerian Hugo Tornius , pseudonym : Germanicus , born March 10 . Jul / March 22, 1883 greg. In Rybinsk , Russian Empire ; † 19th July 1970 in Leipzig ) was a German literary scholar , writer and translator .

Life

Valerian Tornius was the son of the senior physician Hugo Woldemar Tornius and his wife, the pianist Louise Tornius, née Baumert. His ancestors came from Sweden on his father's side and from the island of Ösel on his mother's side . After the early death of his parents, Valerian Tornius grew up with his grandparents in the Baltic town of Abaushof. From 1894 to 1903 he attended a human High School in Riga , and from 1903 to 1908 studied it Germanistik , philosophy and history at the University of Leipzig . During his studies in 1903 he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity Germania . During this time, the first journalistic and literary works appeared. 1908 doctorate Tornius in his academic teacher Albert Köster with a work on "Goethe as a dramatic" for Doctor of Philosophy. He then lived as a freelance writer in Leipzig . In 1910 he married for the first time.

In 1919 Tornius was one of the founders of the " Leipziger Volksakademie ", one of the first German adult education centers ; later he acted as chairman of the Leipzig Goethe Society . In 1929 Tornius married for the second time. During the thirties and during the Second World War , he often spent the summer on the island of Frauenchiemsee .

In 1945, Tornius and a group of authors around Johannes R. Becher were among the founders of the " Kulturbundes zur Democratic Renewal of Germany " in Berlin ; later he decided to stay in Leipzig , where he mainly continued his Goethe research . In addition, he made numerous lecture tours in Germany and other European countries.

Valerian Tornius, who had broad literary, historical and musical knowledge, wrote biographies , narrative works and poems and translated fiction from Russian into German in addition to treatises on literary and cultural history . Particularly successful were Tornius' 1934 published Rembrandt - novel "Between light and dark," the submission to Hans Steinhoff's feature film " Rembrandt made" from 1942, and the Mozart -novel "Wolfgang Amadeus" in 1957. - During the First World War published Tornius under the pseudonym "Germanicus" several pamphlets against Germany's opponents of the war; His anti-Soviet work "Land of Tears", published in 1938, was on the " List of literature to be sorted out " in the Soviet zone after 1945 . - Tornius' estate is in the Leipzig City Library .

Works

  • Goethe as dramaturge , Leipzig 1909
  • Woldemar Sacks , Leipzig 1909
  • The Sensitive in Darmstadt , Leipzig 1910
  • The golden Christ , Leipzig 1912
  • Salons , Leipzig
    • 1 (1913)
    • 2 (1913)
  • The Baltic provinces , Leipzig [u. a.] 1915
  • England, the scourge of mankind , Leipzig 1915 (under the name Germanicus)
  • The poison of the press in the World War , Leipzig 1915 (under the name Germanicus)
  • The Russian Ghost , Leipzig 1915 (under the name Germanicus)
  • The tragedy of the Baltic provinces , Leipzig 1915 (under the name Germanicus)
  • Classical cavaliers , Leipzig 1916
  • The land of the German rulers and the Hansa in the east , Leipzig [u. a.] 1917
  • Adventurer , Leipzig 1919
  • The Lady , Leipzig 1920
  • The aesthetic tea , Berlin 1921
  • Goethe's life , Berlin
    • 7. 1787-1790: Rome and Weimar , 1923
    • 8. 1790 - 1794: loneliness , 1926
    • 9. 1794 - 1798: The Bund with Schiller , 1927
  • The good old days , Lübeck 1924
  • The light in the tower , Leipzig 1924
  • Elisa , Lübeck 1925
  • Baron Trenck , Stuttgart 1926
  • The Conqueror , Leipzig 1926
  • Contemporary Easter walk , Leipzig 1926
  • With Goethe through Thuringia , Leipzig 1927 (together with Wendelin Paul)
  • The murderer , Leipzig 1927
  • Encounters , Leipzig 1928
  • History of the Leipzig fraternity Germania , Leipzig 1928 (together with Emil Knaake and Wolfgang Thiele)
  • Cherubin , Leipzig 1929
  • The book about chocolate , Leipzig 1931
  • Between light and dark , Leipzig 1934
  • German Rococo , Leipzig 1935
  • The song about tea , Markkleeberg near Leipzig 1935
  • The Pfiffikus album , Hamburg 1935
  • Star and Unstar of the Romanovs , Leipzig 1936
  • Ivan the Terrible and his women , Berlin 1937
  • Land of Tears , Berlin 1938
  • Famous women in the mirror , Leipzig 1940
  • Chiemsee sonnets , Leipzig 1943
  • Leipzig in the life of Goethe , Leipzig 1943
  • Goethe , Bonn 1949
  • The classic Weimar , Hattingen (Ruhr) 1949
  • Wolfgang Amadé , Leipzig 1957
  • Baltic Nocturno , Prien / Chiemsee 1962
  • Music - my life , Leipzig 1965

Editing

Translations

literature

  • Valerian Tornius on his 60th birthday on March 22, 1943 , Leipzig 1943
  • Tornius, Valerian Hugo . - In: Carola L. Gottzmann: Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg, Berlin [u. a.], Vol. 3. N-Z, 2007, pp. 1314-1319
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 688-690.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 504.

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personal data
SURNAME Tornius, Valerian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tornius, Valerian Hugo; Germanicus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Rybinsk , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1970
Place of death Leipzig