Wilhelm Cornelius (writer)

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Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Ewald Cornelius , (born May 27, 1809 in Stralsund ; nothing is known about the circumstances of his death so far) was a German bookseller, poet and editor . He campaigned for the preservation of freedom of the press and freedom of expression in Germany and was a speaker at the Hambach Festival of 1832.

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Wilhelm Cornelius was born on May 27, 1809 as the son of a shipbuilder in Stralsund. He took part in the political life of his hometown.

Between 1830 and 1832 Cornelius was editor of the magazine Das Constitutionelle Deutschland in Strasbourg. He gave a speech at the Hambach Festival. Unlike others, this was not printed in the descriptive festival magazine, as the Austrian observer noted in 1838 that it was too “dripping with blood”. He took part in the meeting on May 28, 1832 in the Schoppmann estate. Those present discussed how to proceed and how the German Press and Fatherland Association would be continued. For this involvement Cornelius was arrested in Stralsund as a suspected revolutionary and was in custody for seven years. During his imprisonment in Magdeburg and Graudenz, Cornelius (nickname: "Don Juan") met the writer and opposition activist Fritz Reuter , who describes him in Ut mine fortress tid. After his imprisonment he was a publisher in Berlin.

Cornelius is said to have emigrated to America in 1848, but nothing is known about his whereabouts. The apparatus for correspondence between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels says that Cornelius emigrated to London in the 1850s and was an acquaintance of Marx there.

Publications

  • Baden's Volkskammer held a popular talk from 1831 . Kehl 1832.
  • Thomas Moore's Irish Chants , rendered by Wilhelm Cornelius. Cornelius, Berlin / Stralsund 1841.
  • Britten songs , selected and transcribed by Wilhelm Cornelius. 4 volumes. Cornelius Stralsund / Berlin 1840–1841.
  • General German songbook . Cornelius, Berlin [1842].
  • Schill and his crowd. A little book written from and for the people . Cornelius, Berlin / Stralsund 1842 ( digitized ).
  • with Theodor von Kobbe : Hikes on the North and Baltic Seas . 2nd division: Baltic Sea (by W. Cornelius). Wigand, Leipzig 1842 ( full text ).

literature

  • Wilhelm Koner : Scholarly Berlin. Directory of writers living in Berlin in 1845 . Athenaeum, Berlin 1846, p. 57 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Theodor Gaedertz : Ferdinand von Schill, Fritz Reuter and his fortress companion Wilhelm Cornelius . In: Reuter Calendar 1910, pp. 67–76.
  • Friedrich Koch: The Stralsund poet Wilhelm Cornelius - Fritz Reuter's fellow sufferer . In: Stralsundmonthshefte 1957, No. 6, pp. 8–9.
  • Veit Veltzke (ed.): For freedom - against Napoleon: Ferdinand von Schill, Prussia and the German nation . böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20340-5 , pp. 273 f .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Grete Grewolls: Who was where in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, p. 87; digitized by Josef Cornelissen: Cornelius: Highly respected family name. Retrieved January 22, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Wilhelm Koner: Scholars Berlin. Directory of writers living in Berlin in 1845 . Athenaeum, Berlin 1846, p. 57 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Veit Veltzke (ed.): For the freedom - against Napoleon - Ferdinand von Schill, Prussia and the German nation . Böhlau, Cologne • Weimar • Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20340-5 , pp. 284 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - note 23).
  4. ↑ Austrian Observer No. 306, November 2, 1839 . 1839, p. 165 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Benjamin Krebs: Presentation of the main results from the investigations carried out in Germany because of the revolutionary plots of recent times . Federal President's Printing Office, Frankfurt am Main 1838, p. 23 ( online at: books.google.de ).
  6. ↑ "Don Juan was sines Glowens a building trader un ded in his Fierabendstun'n and pray up Pegasussen ride for a walk."
  7. ^ Karl Theodor Gaedertz: Heiteres and more by Fritz Reuter: with contributions to Low German literature . Mayer & Müller, Berlin 1905, p. 12 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ^ Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Correspondence: Apparat (MEGA 3,4) Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 9783320001001 , p. 1076.
personal data
SURNAME Cornelius, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cornelius, Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publisher bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH 19th century