Karl Hillebrand

Karl Hillebrand ( born September 17, 1829 in Giessen, † October 19, 1884 in Florence ) was a German essayist, journalist, cultural theorist and literary historian.

Life

Karl Hillebrand was the son of the scholar Joseph Hillebrand. After studying law at Giessen, where he was a member of the Corps Starkenburgia, and Heidelberg, he took 1848/49 in the fighting in Frankfurt and at the May uprising in Baden in part. After that, he lived as a refugee in Strasbourg and Paris, where he was secretary of Heinrich Heine. Later he studied at the University of Bordeaux. From 1863 he was professor of foreign literature at the Faculty of Philosophy at Douai.

In 1870 he resigned, probably due to the Franco-German War. Thereafter, he worked as a freelance writer in Florence, where he died at the age of 55 years and also found his final resting place.

He knew most of the German writer and philosopher of his time ( and Others Friedrich Nietzsche) personally and corresponded with them. Hillebrand was considered the expert on France and Italy.

The German Academy for Language and Poetry gives the Karl Hillebrand Prize for essays. His posthumous works are in the archives of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

Works

• French history from the accession of Louis Philippe to the case of Napoleon III. Gotha: Perthes Vol 1 The Sturm und Drang period of the July Monarchy (1877 )
• Vol 2 The flowering time of the parliamentary monarchy (1879 )
• Vol 3 The July Revolution and its history (1881 )

• Vol 1 France and the French in the second half of the 19th century
• Vol 2 Wälsches and German
• Vol 3 From and England
• Vol 4 profiles
• Vol 5 From the century of revolution
• Vol 6 contemporaries and Contemporary
• Vol 7 Culturgeschichtliches

• Italia 1.1874 - 4.1877