Victor Hardung

Victor Hardung (born November 3, 1861 in Essen , † July 2, 1919 in St. Gallen ) was a German - Swiss journalist and writer .

Life

A short story illustrated by Robert Engels in the magazine Jugend (1896)

Victor Hardung was the son of an architect from Essen. Hardung initially worked for the Prussian Mining Authority in Bonn . He then ran agricultural and medical studies; afterwards he studied German literature , philosophy and political science at the universities of Strasbourg and Zurich until 1893 . From 1893 he lived as a journalist and writer in Zurich . He published the Swiss Literature Calendar and was editor of theFriends of the people in Flawil , Canton St. Gallen .

From 1899 to 1916 he was one of the features section - Editor of the St. Galler Tageblatt on. Between 1906 and 1910 he attended lectures on constitutional law and economics at the University of Zurich . Hardung received Swiss citizenship in 1917 , his hometown was Egg in the canton of Zurich . Most recently he lived in the St. Gallen district of Notkersegg.

Victor Hardung was a writer of narrative works , poems and plays . The subjects of his works often come from mythology or ancient history.

Works

• The crucifixion of Christ , Paderborn 1889
• Solstice fire , Zurich 1891
• For the seventh secular celebration of the founding of the city of Bern , Bern 1891 (together with Gottfried Schlumpf)
• Songs of two friends , Zurich 1892 (together with Hermann Stegemann)
• Queen Rose , St. Gallen 1893
• Fortunatus , Glarus 1895
• Im Reigen , Glarus 1895
• The Anabaptists in Münster , Glarus 1895
• Silder , Frauenfeld, 1903
• Kydippe , Schkeuditz 1905
• Beatitudes , Zurich [a. a.] 1907
• The brocade city , Frauenfeld 1909
• The poems , Zurich 1910
• Godiva , Zurich 1911
• Daphne , St. Gallen 1913
• Homecoming , St. Gallen 1913
• Hypermnestra , St. Gallen 1915
• Marriage to marriage , Zurich 1916
• Isanthe , Basel 1918
• Die Liebesfahrten der Eisheiligen , Braunschweig [u. a.] 1921
• The shepherd's flute , Elgg 1969
• Forbidden fruits , Elgg 1970

literature

• Tobias Hoffmann-Allenspach: Victor Hardung . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 795 f.
• Emil Wiedmer: Victor Hardung. In: Schweizer Illustrierte , Vol. 23, 1919, pp. 493–498.

Web links

Commons : Victor Hardung  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Hardung, Victor. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Short biography of Hardung