Wilhelm Gotte
Wilhelm Julius Götte (born November 12, 1807 in Braunschweig , † December 11, 1839 in Leipzig ) was a German philologist , philosopher and journalist who belonged to Robert Schumann's circle of friends .
Life
Götte was the son of a brewer. After attending the Martineum in Braunschweig , he studied philosophy at the University of Leipzig from 1826 to 1828 , during which time he was a member of the Old Leipzig Burschenschaft , of which he was a board member and spokesman for the winter semester 1827/28.
There he met Robert Schumann in 1828 and soon became one of his closest friends. On July 13, 1828, Schumann noted in his diary: “Götte is a tremendous man and I love him like seldom ”. In August of the same year he characterized Götte with the words: “Götte is a true Vulcan from which nothing more than Hephaesthes and the like. Lava flows rise, which shatter u. devastate; but when the lava is burned out, it stands still and crystallizes and becomes a beautiful mirror of his soul u. to the solid mass on which we can step forward boldly. "
After his student days in Leipzig, he traveled to Erlangen , Würzburg , Tübingen and Heidelberg with members of the Leipzig fraternity .
In 1828 Götte continued his studies at the University of Göttingen , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate .
After living in Braunschweig and Berlin, where he sought in vain for a job, he was co-editor in 1837 at the Leipzig publisher Brockhaus appearing Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung , the forerunner of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . In the same year he renewed his acquaintance with Robert Schumann.
Works
- Animadversiones in Xenophontis Librum de Republica Lacedaemonorium. Dissertation, Göttingen 1830 ( digitized version )
- Velleius Paterculus , Roman History , translated and commented by Wilhelm Götte. Volume 1, Stuttgart 1833 ( digitized version )
- The Delphic Oracle in its political, religious and moral influence on the ancient world. Leipzig 1839 ( digitized )
- About the origin of the death penalty . Leipzig 1839 ( digitized )
- Politics preschool. Leipzig 1840 ( digitized )
Literature (selection)
- Robert Schumann, Youth Letters , ed. by Clara Schumann . Leipzig 1886, pp. 35–38 (Schumann's letter to Wilhelm Götte, Schneeberg (Erzgebirge) , October 2, 1828) ( digitized version ).
- Arnulf Baumann : The fraternity relations in Leipzig from 1826-1828 after the representation of Wilhelm Götte from 1836. In: Representations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Volume 9 (1974), pp. 119-173.
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 153-154.
- Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Leipzig 1828 to 1878 , ed. by Annegret Rosenmüller and Ekaterina Smyka (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 19), Cologne: Dohr 2018, pp. 463–474
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Schumann, Diaries , Volume 1, ed. by Georg Eismann , Leipzig 1971, p. 92.
- ↑ Robert Schumann, Diaries , Volume 1, ed. by Georg Eismann , Leipzig 1971, p. 111.
- ↑ Robert Schumann: Diaries , Volume 2, ed. by Gerd Nauhaus , Leipzig 1987, p. 36.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gotte, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Götte, Wilhelm Julius (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist, philosopher and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 1839 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |