Heinrich Leuthold

Heinrich Leuthold ( born August 9, 1827 in Wetzikon, † July 1, 1879 in Zurich ) was a Swiss poet, translator and journalist.

Life and work

The son of a farm laborer and dairyman studied law at the Universities of Zurich, Basel and Berne, in particular Wilhelm Wackernagel and Jacob Burckhardt. He broke off his studies and stayed in the South of France, Italy and finally in Munich, where he met the poet crocodile society. He associated there with, among other well-known poets such as Emanuel Geibel and Paul Heyse, but suffered from the lack of audience acclaim for his poetry. From 1865 he lived permanently in Munich, where he also worked as a journalist. In 1879, he died in Zurich mental hospital Burgholzli, in which he had been admitted in 1876 due to mental health problems.

Leuthold created mainly nature poetry in the tradition of German Romanticism and Biedermeier. Influenced Leuthold was according to the literary historian Peter von Matt particularly of Friedrich Hölderlin. He also wrote a great epic ( Penthesilea ) and worked as an editor and translator.

Works

• Poetry
• Proverbs and epigrams
• Penthesilea, epic poem in nine cantos
• Hannibal, the fragmentary epic poem in five Rhapsodies

• Poems. Insel Verlag, Leipzig, 1910.
• Collected seals in three volumes. Introduced and edited by the manuscripts. by Gottfried Bohnenblust. 3 volumes. Huber, Frauenfeld 1914 ( digitized Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3)