Hermann Marggraff

Margrave Hermann ( born 14 September 1809 in Züllichau, Brandenburg, † February 11, 1864 in Leipzig ) was a German writer, journalist and literary critic.

Life and work

Hermann Margrave devoted himself since 1835, the literary activity, especially the journalistic, edited from 1836 to 1838, the Berlin conversation sheet, moved about 1838 to Leipzig, and in 1843 to Munich, gave, together with Robert Blum and Charles Herloßsohn from 1839 to 1842, the seven-volume General Theater lexicon or Encyclopedia out all knowledge Werthen for stage performers, amateurs and theater lovers. He participated in succession on the editorial board of the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung (1845-1847), the German newspaper (1847-1850, first in Heidelberg, then in Frankfurt), the Hamburg correspondent (1851-1853) and at the end 1853 to Leipzig the editors the leaves of literary entertainment. In general, the Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts of Johann Samuel Ersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber, he wrote, in the scope of a book, in 1861 the article on Goethe.

Margrave was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Baldwin zur Linde in Leipzig. Inspired by his lodge brother and master of the chair Karl Christian Kanis Gretschel he published in 1842 a German translation of the Regius manuscript.

His brother Rudolf Margrave (1805-1880) was General Secretary from 1842 to 1855 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and came to prominence as a writer on art, including through several catalogs of the Munich galleries, known.

Writings

  • Germany's youngest literary and cultural epoch. (Leipzig 1839)

Tragedies:

  • Henry IV (1837 )
  • The dove of Amsterdam. (via Dyveke Sigbritsdatter, Leipzig 1839)
  • Elfrida. (Leipzig 1841)

Humorous novels:

  • Justus and Chrysostom, brothers bad luck. ( Leipzig, 1840, 2 vols )
  • John Mackel. ( Leipzig, 1841, 2 vols )
  • Fritz bag. (Frankfurt 1855)

Poetry:

  • Poems. (Leipzig 1857) and
  • Ballads Chronicle. (Leipzig 1862)

He also published:

  • James Orchard Halliwell: Early History of Freemasonry in England. German by Hermann Margrave. (Leipzig 1842)
  • Ernst Schulze. According to his diaries and letters. (Leipzig 1855)
  • Schiller and Körner's bond of friendship. (Leipzig)
  • Treasure House of the German Humoristik. ( Leipzig, 1860, 2 vols )
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