Vincenz Weber

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Vinzenz Weber with one of his daughters

Vincenz P. Weber (in some publications also Vincenz de Paula Weber ; born January 11, 1809 in Trautenau , † August 5, 1859 in Mährisch-Trübau ) was a Bohemian doctor and poet .

Life

Vinzenz Weber was born on January 11, 1809 as the eldest son of tax collector Johannes Franciscus Weber and his wife Anna (née Feist) in Trautenau No. 60. He attended the grammar school in Königgrätz , where his uncle Vincenz, at the time professor of theology at the episcopal seminary, looked after him. He completed his philosophical studies in Brno , and went to the University of Vienna to study medicine

Already during his time in Königgrätz and Brno he devoted himself to literary work, although his family did not like it - they rather urged him to give up writing and concentrate more on studies. A demand that he could not meet - his literary work was too important to him. In 1837 one of his texts appeared for the first time in the magazine " Ost und West, Blätter für Kunst, Literatur und Geselliges Leben ", newly founded by Rudolf Glaser in Prague : A visit to the Prague insane asylum at St. Katharina . In the summer of 1838 he completed the historical opera Heinrich IV in Prague . The setting agreed with a composer friend, however, never came about.

Vinzenz Weber married Rosa Eichhorn while still a student in 1836. On September 8, 1838, the first of six children, Richard Romuald, was born in Trautenau.

In 1839 Weber completed his medical studies with a dissertation on hemoptysis with Joseph Cornelianus . After a trip through Italy, he opened his first practice in his hometown of Trautenau . On August 1, 1839, his father, Johannes Weber, died at the age of 76 of paralysis . Soon afterwards the family moved to Zwittau , where Weber practiced both as a general practitioner and an ophthalmologist.

The first literary success came in 1845: on April 17, his play Spartacus was premiered at the Vienna Burgtheater and received with great enthusiasm by the audience, as the " Sunday papers for home interests " report in the 1845 edition: " The poet was called five times , individual passages and situations [sic!] lively applauded and the audience provided proof of our recommendation, which our reading groups accepted in confidence last year ".

At the instigation of his friend, the pharmacist Florian Czerny, he moved to Mährisch-Trübau in 1847 and took the - unpaid - position of a city ​​physician , who later also took on the duties of a district and court doctor.

In October 1849 another of his stage pieces , the Wahabitin , premiered at the Burgtheater - albeit with moderate success. Friedrich Hebbel , who also took this opportunity to attack the Burgtheater director Heinrich Laube , appointed in 1845 , described the play as a " staged opera text " and concluded his detailed review with the words: " The art of the actors and the audience's consideration for them Their efforts saved the piece from total diarrhea ". But also thoroughly benevolent assessments of the performance, such as those in the magazine " Der Wiener Viewer ", had to admit the weaknesses of the piece: " The drawing of the characters is excellent, some deep and fruitful thoughts are clad in shimmering words and fresh images like precious pearls into colorful shells, and yet the piece - left cold! "

Rößler, who claims to have acquired his knowledge of Vincenz Weber's living conditions from his son Mag. Pharm. Leo Weber as well as Alois Czerny , the director of the Mährisch Trübau public school, reported that further stage works were first returned to him for revision, but were ultimately not accepted. Heinrich Laube is said to have rejected the play The Last Knight in 1853 because he thought it was not playable. In 1854 Paracelsus, a work commissioned for the Theater an der Wien , suffered the same fate.

Weber spent the last years of his life bitterly disappointed and in poor health. Shortly before his death, he burned all unpublished manuscripts, he had worked on several for many years, including the multi-volume novels The Philosopher of the 19th Century and The Girl of Sebele .

On August 5, 1859, at the age of 50, he died of a lung disease.

His grave is in the immediate vicinity of the Lapidarium, an ensemble of Renaissance tombs, at the cemetery of Mährisch-Trübau .

Works (selection)

Web links

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Weber, Vincenz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 53rd part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1886, pp. 217–219 ( digitized version ).
  • Franz Brümmer :  Weber, Vincenz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 357 f.
  • Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 7, 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, p. 343 f.
  • Rößler, Emil: Vincenz P. Weber, a stage poet from the first half of the 19th century. in XXXV annual report of the kk state high school in Mährisch-Trübau. Published at the end of the 1911–1912 school year. Mährisch-Trübau 1912, pp. 3–28
  • Sunday papers for domestic interests , edited by Dr. Ludwig August Frankl , Vienna 1845
  • Hebbel, Friedrich. All [sic!] Works. Eleventh volume. Hamburg 1867
  • Viennese audience, magazine for the educated, edited and published by Joseph Sigmund Ebersberg , Vienna 1831 ff
  • Widmann, Wilhelm: Theater and Revolution. Their mutual relationships and effects in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Berlin 1920, p. 67

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alois Czerny : The political district of Mährisch-Trübau: Local history for school and home , 1904, p. 156.
  2. ^ Entry by Vinzenz de Paula Weber in the database of German-Moravian authors (accessed on May 6, 2019).
  3. ↑ Glaser, Rudolf (ed.): East and West, sheets for art, literature and social life . tape 1 . Prague 1837, p. 60-62 .
  4. ^ Provincial handbook for Moravia and Silesia . Brno 1847, p. 234 .
  5. ^ Frankl, Ludwig August (ed.): Sunday papers for domestic interests, edited by Dr. Ludwig August Frankl, Vienna 1845 . S. 368 .
  6. ^ Rößler, Emil: Vincenz P. Weber, a stage poet from the first half of the 19th century. In: Annual report of the kk Staatsgymnasium Mährisch-Trübau . tape XXXV . Publishing house of the kk Staatsgymnasium Mährisch-Trübau, Mährisch-Trübau 1912, p. 4 .
  7. ^ Hebbel, Friedrich: all [sic!] Works . tape 11 . Hamburg 1867, p. 226-34 .
  8. ↑ Ebersberg, Joseph Sigismund (ed.): The Viennese audience . No. 232 . Vienna 1849, p. 1855 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Vincenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Vincenz de Paula (full name); Weber, Vincenz P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian doctor and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Trautenau
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1859
Place of death Moravian Trübau