Wilhelm Petersen (literary critic)
Wilhelm Petersen (born January 20, 1835 in Kellinghusen , † September 26, 1900 in Schleswig ) was a German administrative lawyer and literary critic.
Life
Wilhelm Petersen attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and the learned school of the Johanneum . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1856 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg (1856) and the Corps Holsatia . Petersen had to leave Heidelberg because of insults against employees of the university and got into debt both here and in Kiel because of his relaxed lifestyle . In 1859 he became a court assessor and civil servant in the Danish government of Schleswig-Holstein. After the Prussian victory in the German-Danish War , he was accepted into the Prussian administrative service of the province of Schleswig-Holstein in 1866 ; he became a government councilor in 1874 and a secret councilor in Schleswig in 1894, responsible for agriculture and fishing.
Wilhelm Petersen had literary relationships with Klaus Groth , Paul Heyse , Gottfried Keller , Wilhelm Jensen , Theodor Storm and other writers of his time. He left a lot of correspondence. Petersen was particularly close friends with Storm, who dedicated his novella The Senator's Sons to him. He himself dabbled both as a poet and as a painter.
Correspondence
- Irmgard Smidt (ed.): My dear master and best friend: Gottfried Keller in correspondence with Wilhelm Petersen. Stäfa (Zurich): Good 1984, ISBN 3-85717-019-0
- Paul Heyse , Rainer Hillenbrand (Ed.): Paul Heyse's letters to Wilhelm Petersen: With Heyses letters to Anna Petersen, four letters from Petersen to Heyse and some letters from the family circle , Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998
- Gerd Eversberg: Klaus Groth and Wilhelm Petersen. A forgotten friendship. With unpublished letters. Full text
literature
- Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 3, p. 208 f. with correction in Volume 12, p. 427
- Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 503
- Gerd Eversberg (ed.): In the circle of poets: Wilhelm Petersen (1835-1900) and his friendship with Storm, Keller, Heyse, Groth u. a .; An exhibition on the 100th anniversary of death. Husum: Boyens 2000 (Husumer Catalogs 1), ISBN 978-3-8042-0935-0
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petersen, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kellinghusen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1900 |
| Place of death | Schleswig |