Johann August Apel

Johann August Apel ( born September 17, 1771 in Leipzig, † August 9, 1816 ) was a German jurist and writer.

Life

August Apel was born as the youngest son of the lawyer and Leipzig mayor Heinrich Friedrich Innocent Apel. After graduating from the St. Thomas School at Leipzig he studied 1789-1793 Law at the University of Leipzig and Wittenberg Leucorea and graduated in 1795 with a doctorate in law. from. In Leipzig he established himself as a lawyer; In 1801 he was elected to the city council.

At first he wrote classical dramas, later more and more rain and ghost stories. Extremely Apel became known with his ghosts book, which he published along with Friedrich August Schulze ( under the pseudonym of Friedrich Laun ).

The librettist Johann Friedrich Kind took Apel's novella Der Freischütz the material for the opera Der Freischütz (Carl Maria von Weber).

The publication of Apels metric sparked an escalating scientific dispute. His main opponent was doing his former teacher Gottfried Hermann. But before the dispute was resolved, August Apel died on August 9, 1816 in Leipzig.

The writer and founder Theodor Apel is the son of August Apel.

Works

• Polyidus (1805; digitized )
• The Aitolier ( with Appendix " Aforismen about rhythm and meter ," pp. 156-188; 1806; digitized )
• Callirhoe (1806; digitized )
• Kunz Kaufungen ( tragedy 1809)
• Ghosts book (edited by Friedrich August Schulze, 5 volumes from 1811 to 1815, submission to Der Freischütz in Volume 1 )
• Cicadas (poetry; 3 volumes from 1810 to 1811, Vol 1 Vol 3)
• Metric (2 volumes from 1814 to 1816, Vol 1 Vol 2)
• Miracle book (edited by Friedrich August Schulze and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, 3 volumes 1815 to 1817 )
• Timeless ( stories and poems in 1817; digitized )