Woldemar von Biedermann

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Woldemar von Biedermann

Gustav Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann (born March 5, 1817 in Marienberg ; † February 6, 1903 in Dresden ) was a lawyer, literary historian and Goethe researcher . As a pseudonym he used the name Ottomar Föhrau.

origin

His parents were the lawyer and politician Gustav Heinrich Freiherr von Biedermann (1789–1862) and his wife Caroline Dorothea Tost (1787–1868).

Live and act

He studied in Leipzig and Heidelberg from 1836 to 1839, the law and entered after some time lawyer had been in 1845 in the Saxon government service. In 1849 he was employed by the railways as government commissioner at the board of directors of the Chemnitz-Riesaer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , in 1851 as railway director in Chemnitz, in 1858 in Leipzig; In 1869 he was appointed secret finance council and deputy general director of the royal Saxon state railways. His son Flodoard von Biedermann urged him to publish his collected notes on the conversations of Goethe. This work was published in 10 volumes from 1889 to 1896.

In addition to many partly poetic and partly technical writings, he published around 180 articles on Goethe literature and edited several volumes of the Weimar Sophienausgabe of Goethe's works, for which he received an honorary doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of Leipzig University in 1865. Biedermann was also a co-founder of the Goethe Society , of which he was a long-time board member, and he was a member of the Dresden literary-artistic society of the "Fourteen", to which u. A. the literary scholars Hermann Hettner and Robert Prölß belonged.

Biedermann died in Dresden in 1903 and was buried in the Old Annenfriedhof . His grave was destroyed in 1945.

family

He married Antonie Henriette Leopoldine von Trützschler (* 13 August 1825, † 1908) on June 11, 1848 in Großpostwitz near Bautzen . The couple had 10 children including:

  • Berthold Woldemar (born February 3, 1851 - † September 8, 1933) ⚭ 1880 Augustine Bertha Auguste Deines (born October 12, 1858 in Batavia)
  • Caroline Walburga (born May 3, 1852)
  • Childebert Woldemar (* May 18, 1853), Forester ⚭ 1886 Auguste Luise von Zenker (* September 23, 1862)
  • Flodoard Woldemar (* March 14, 1858 - October 19, 1934) ⚭ 1885 Klara May (* September 3, 1859)
  • Gossilio Gustav Woldemar (born September 3, 1860)
  • Henrica Irmindrud Leopoldine (born November 13, 1863)
  • Zilla (born October 7, 1865)

Works

  • Goethe and Leipzig. Leipzig 1865, 2 volumes.
  • To Goethe's poems. Leipzig 1870.
  • Goethe and Dresden. Leipzig 1875.
  • Goethe and the Saxon Ore Mountains. Stuttgart 1877.
  • Goethe research. 3 volumes. Leipzig: Biedermann 1879–1889.
  • Goethe's Conversations. Complete edition. Founded by Woldemar Frhr. by Biedermann. Newly published by Flodoard von Biedermann with the participation of Max Morris, Hans Gerhard Gräf and Leonhard Leopold Mackall. 2nd, revised and greatly increased edition. Leipzig: Biedermann 1909-1911.
  • Goethe's letters to Eichstädt. Hempel, Berlin 1872.
  • Goethe's correspondence with Friedrich Rochlitz. Biedermann, Leipzig 1887.
  • Lecture given on April 11, 1892: Goethe in Dresden. in: Dresden history sheets. 1892, No. 3, pp. 33-p. 41 ( SLUB factory view )
  • Goethe and Lessing. In: Goethe yearbook. Volume 1, 1880, pp. 17-43 ( archive.org ).

literature

  • Catalog of the Goethe library of the late Freiherr Woldemar von Biedermann as well as a valuable collection of German literature from the classical and romantic periods, family books . Catalog of the 81st auction at CG Boerner, Leipzig 1905. Foreword by Adolf Stern.
  • Flodoard von Biedermann : Overview of the literary activity of Woldemar Freiherrn von Biedermann. On March 5, 1917. Performed on his family's 100th birthday ... As handwriting for the family. Printed by: Leipzig: Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1917 (from the family archive of the Reichsfreiherren von Biedermann, 2nd supplement)
  • Konrad Burger: The library of the secret council Woldemar von Biedermann . In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel 1903, No. 220 of September 20, column 7303f.
  • Adalbert Elschenbroich:  Biedermann, Woldemar von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 223 ( digitized version ).
  • Wilhelm Haan : Gustav Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann . In: Saxon Writer's Lexicon . Robert Schaefer's Verlag, Leipzig 1875, p. 23.
  • Karlheinz Schulz: Biedermann, (Gustav) Woldemar Frhr. from. In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon. Volume 1, pp. 498-499.
  • Gotthilf Weisstein: Woldemar von Biedermann. In: National newspaper. Vol. 56, February 8, 1903, morning edition, 2nd supplement, p. 2.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. 1856, p. 60 ( digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de ), 1887 p. 73 f. ( digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de ).

Web links

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ Only 14 people could belong to this group, see Dirk Hempel: Literary Associations in Dresden…. Tübingen 2008, p. 201 ff. ( Books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ Jahrbuch des Deutschen Nels , Volume 2, 1898, p. 893 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).
personal data
SURNAME Biedermann, Woldemar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biedermann, Gustav Woldemar von; Föhrau, Otomar (pseudonym); One, (pseudonym); Föhrau, Ottomar (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienberg
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1903
Place of death Dresden