August Friedrich Ernst Langbein

August Friedrich Ernst Langbein ( born September 6, 1757 Klippenstein Castle in Radeberg; † January 2, 1835 in Berlin) was a German poet of his time widely read and novelist.

Life

Langbein, son of a civil servant who was educated in the Prince's School in Meissen. Since 1777, he studied law in Leipzig and entered 1781 at a location in the judicial office Großenhain. From 1785, he lived in Dresden, where he worked as a trustee and clerk in the secret archive. After Langbein had already made ​​its debut as a student in Gottfried August Bürger " Musenalmanach " and celebrated first modest success as a writer, he gave up the unloved Kanz list place and settled down in 1800 in Berlin as a freelance writer. He developed novels, stories an amazing productivity, but ultimately could not make a living. Charlotte von Kalb, the estimated Langbein's novel The gray king extraordinary, made ​​Princess Marianne of Prussia attention to the poet. Your influence, it is thanks to well that you Langbein 1820 transferred the office of a censor for beautiful scientific journals. Langbein was a relatively mild censor who came repeatedly into conflict with his superiors. That he should have canceled his own works from the catalogs of circulating libraries, probably belongs to the realm of anecdote. However, he denied later some of his early works and defused last several of his early works, which he too offensive or too critical appeared against the nobility and authority. Langbein died in 1835 in Berlin and was buried in the cemetery Dorotheenstädtischer. The tomb no longer exists.

Langbein was especially popular with humorous novels like Thomas Keller worm or Magister Zimpels Brautfahrt. In his poetry, especially in his ballads can be found sometimes a tendency to frivolity, especially served Langbein the facetious genre. He was beside Friedrich Gustav Schilling (1766-1839), August Lafontaine, Friedrich Laun ( di Friedrich August Schulze, 1770-1849 ) and Heinrich Clauren to the most popular entertainment writers in the first third of the 19th century. Langbein was so famous and sought that even some contemporaries published under his name. Langbein's humorous tale Die Fledermaus ( from Feyerabende ) was processed by Karl Friedrich Hensler to a comedy.

Works

  • Poems. Leipzig 1788
  • Farces. 2 vols, Dresden and Leipzig, 1791-92
  • Feyerabende. 3 vols, Leipzig 1793-98
  • Talismans against long while. 3 vols, Berlin 1801-1802
  • The gray king. A nova cians novel. Berlin 1803
  • Thomas Keller worm. Berlin 1806
  • The nerd and his sons. Novel. Berlin 1809
  • More recent poems. 2 vols, Tübingen 1812-23
  • Sämmtliche writings. Complete, worried by the author himself, verb. and presumably original outputs. last hand. 31 vols, Stuttgart 1835-37

(Some letters Langbein, see:. Letters from and to Gottfried August Bürger Edited by Adolf Strodtmann 4 vols, Berlin, 1874.. )

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