Wilhelm von Schütz

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Christian Wilhelm von Schütz , called Schütz-Lacrimas (born April 13, 1776 in Berlin , † August 9, 1847 in Leipzig ) was a German poet and essayist.

Life

Wilhelm Schütz was the eldest son of the Finance Councilor Johann George von Schütz , who, together with his sons, was raised to the nobility in 1803; his brother was the Cologne provincial tax director Karl August von Schütz .

He attended the Friedrichwerdersche school in Berlin and then studied at the universities of Würzburg and Erlangen law . In 1798 he came to the Royal Kurmärkischen War and Domain Chamber as a trainee lawyer, where he made it up to the knighthood director in Neumark . His promising career ended when he protested in 1811 against the restriction of feudal rights due to the Hardenberg reforms and was therefore suspended from service. In 1812, after four years of marriage, his wife Barnime, daughter of Count Friedrich Ludwig Karl Finck von Finckenstein, died .

Schütz was closely connected to the Berlin romantic circle around August Wilhelm Schlegel and Ludwig Tieck and initially published poetry that met with benevolent sympathy. His first drama Lacrimas (1803), on the other hand, received only negative reviews, as did his following ( Niobe , Der Graf und die Gräfin von Gleichen ), which marked him as an amateur outsider among his poet colleagues. In the years from 1820 to 1828 he lived in Dresden , where he associated with Tieck, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué , Otto von Loeben , Henrich Steffens and Adam Müller von Nitterdorf . He continued to write poetry and became a Schiller epigone with his historical dramas.

Like many intellectuals of his generation, Schütz felt drawn to the Roman Catholic Church and converted from Calvinism to Catholicism in 1830 , which completely isolated him from his former friends with whom he was involved in literary feuds.

Influenced above all by Adam Müller, he developed a diverse journalistic activity (among other things he wrote about economic, cultural-historical and canonical issues). From 1822 he got a German edition of the memoirs Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) for the FA Brockhaus publishing house . From 1842 to 1846 he also published the Catholic magazine Anticelsus .

Wilhelm von Schütz died in Leipzig at the age of 71.

Works (selection)

Poetry

  • Romantic forests by the author of the Lacrimas , 1808
  • The garden of love , 1811

Dramas

  • Lacrimas , play, 1803
  • Niobe , tragedy, 1807
  • The Count and Countess von Gleichen , tragedy, 1807
  • Graf von Schwarzenberg , play, 1819
  • Dramatic Forests (Gismunda, Evadne) , 1821
  • Carl the Bold , Drama, 1821

Essays and other writings

  • Russia and Germany or on the meaning of the Memoire von Aachen , 1819
  • Germany's press law, viewed in terms of its nature and consequences , 1821
  • On the intellectual and substantial morphology, with regard to the creation and the origin of the earth , 1821–1823
  • The Papal States, founded biblically and prophetically in Rome , 1832
  • Gaps in German Philosophy , 1837
  • On the Prussian legal view on mixed marriages , 1839
  • Mary Queen of Scots Queen of Scotland. Faithfully portrayed according to historical sources , 1839
  • On the Catholic character of ancient tragedy and the latest attempts by Messrs Tieck, Tölken, and Böckh to decatholicize it , 1842
  • Hegel and Günther. Not the trumpet sound of the Last Judgment, only five philosophical reflections , 1842
  • The devout Catholic old Sarmatians and the new pagan anti-Sarmatians in Poland. To properly appreciate your last insurrection . Renger, Leipzig 1846 ( e-copy ).
  • Prophecy of the brother Hermann von Lehnin , 1847

Editorial activity

  • From the memoirs of the Venetian Jacob Casanova de Seingalt, or his life, as he wrote it down in Dux , 5th vol., Leipzig 1822–1824

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 6th volume. 1912, Retrieved June 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schütz, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schütz, Christian Wilhelm von; Schütz-Lacrimas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1847
Place of death Leipzig