Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg
Wolfhelm Hardt Hohberg (also Wolfgang Helmhard Freiherr von Hohberg ) (* 20th October 1612 in Lengenfeld bei Krems (Lower Austria); † 29. June 1688 in Regensburg ) was a writer of the baroque . His Georgica curiosa , an encyclopaedic work on all aspects of house and agriculture, was a highlight of the so-called house fathers literature .
life and work
The writer comes from the Hochberg family , at that time still part of the Silesian-Lower Austrian landed gentry. Orphaned at an early age, he was brought up with relatives. At the age of twenty he began a career as a soldier in an imperial regiment of "German (compatriot) servants ". The events of the Thirty Years' War brought him to Bohemia, Saxony, Pomerania and Mecklenburg. With the rank of captain he quit military service in 1641 and took over the small family estate Süßenbach an der Thaya. He was soon able to expand this property by purchasing a few more goods. Because of the persecution of Protestants, he had to give up his Austrian property in 1664 and settled in the Free Imperial City of Regensburg , the refuge for numerous “ exiles ” of the Austrian nobility. Here he maintained close relationships with fellow fates such as Greiffenberg , Kuefstein and Stubenberg . Hohberg died honored in Regensburg in 1688, the poet-mayor Johann Ludwig Prasch gave the funeral oration.
Hohberg had not received any systematic training, but acquired extensive knowledge and mastered both old and new languages. His main interest was always agriculture, the literary work was a product of the winter hours. In his literary inclinations he was based on the example of Virgil . In 1661 he published his verse epic The unpleasant Proserpine , the success of which encouraged him to submit a colossal epic in no less than 39,570 Alexandrian verses with the Habsburg Ottobert 1663-64 . Obviously inspired by Ariosto , Hohberg describes the adventures of a superhero of the Byzantine Middle Ages, whom he stylized as the forefather of the Habsburgs. In 1675 the magnificent emblematic work Lust- und Artzney-Garten was published, with 300 copper plates one of the most beautiful books of the century. In 1682 his Georgica curiosa appeared , in 1687 the 400-page version Georgica curiosa aucta . As the main works of their genre, these works can claim lasting interest. In contrast, the purely literary works of Hohberg were of little importance and quickly forgotten. After all, his reputation as a poet was so great that the author was accepted into the Fruitful Society in 1652 under the name “Der Sinnrich” , an association for the care of the German language and poetry.
Works (selection)
- The unpleasant Proserpine. Regensburg 1661 (verse epic)
- The Habsburg Ottobert. 3 vols. Erfurt 1663–64 (verse epic)
- Pleasure and Artzeney Garden of the Royal Prophet David. Regensburg 1675 (rhyming psalm paraphrase)
- Georgica curiosa, that is, Complicated report ... of the aristocratic country and field life. Nuremberg 1682 ( digitized 1st volume )
- The perfect art of horse and riding. Nuremberg 1689
literature
- Robert Bouchal - Johannes Sachslehner : Waldviertel. Mystical - mysterious - unknown. Vienna: Pichler Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-85431-274-1 , p. 144
- Otto Brunner : Noble country life and European spirit. Life and work of Wolf Helmhard von Hohberg . Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1949.
- Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Wolfgang Helmhardt von Hohberg (1612-1688 ), in: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 3. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, pp. 2151-59. ISBN 3-7772-9105-6 (list of works and literature)
- Irmgard Jerschke: Wolf Helmhardt Freiherr von Hohberg . Diss. Munich 1936
Lexica articles
- Carl Leisewitz: Hohberg, Wolfgang Helmhard Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 653-655.
- Otto Brunner: Hohberg, Wolf Helmhard Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 476 f. ( Digitized version ).
Literature on partial aspects
- A. Krutiak: <The hilarious Proserpina> by Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg. Diss. Vienna 1935
- Oskar Dworak: Ariosto's influence on Wilhelm Helmhardt von Hohberg's <Habsburg Ottobert>. Diss. Vienna 1949
Web links
- Publications by and about Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg in VD 17 .
- Literature by and about Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Digitized prints by Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg in the catalog of the Herzog August Library
- Entry on Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Entry on Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
- Portrait, biography and overview of works (PDF; 222 kB)
- Hohberg's Georgica curiosa aucta in the Deutsches Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Robert Bouchal - Johannes Sachslehner: Waldviertel , 2002, p. 144
- ↑ cf. Robert Bouchal - Johannes Sachslehner: Waldviertel , 2002, p. 144
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hohberg, Wolf Helmhardt from |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolfgang Helmhard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baroque poet and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1612 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lengenfeld (Lower Austria) near Krems |
DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1688 |
Place of death | regensburg |