August Ludwig Follen
Adolf Ludwig Follen, actually August Adolf Follenius, ( born January 21, 1794 in Giessen, † December 26, 1855 in Bern ) was a liberal German writer and publisher.
Life
He was brother of Karl Theodor Christian Friedrich Follen and Paul Follen. The son of his sister Louise was the natural scientist Carl Vogt.
Follen attended high school in Giessen, where he studied from 1811 to 1816 at the University of philology, Protestant theology and law. In 1810 he became a member of the Corps Franconia II
In 1814 he went as a volunteer in the wars of liberation to France. After his return he was under the impression the Restoration in 1814 to a co-founder of the fraternity Teutonia casting and the Germans Reading Society, the Patriotic Reading Society to achieve patriotic and moral purposes. Therefore expelled from the University of Giessen, he moved in 1816 to the University of Heidelberg, where in 1815 the fraternity Teutonia Heidelberg joined.
In 1817 he was editor in Elberfeld and prepared the draft constitution outlines for a future constitution. In 1818 he published the politically held Songbook of the German fraternity Freye votes fresh youth. In 1819 he was arrested for " German activities" until 1821 and released for health reasons. The emigration to Switzerland saved him ten years ago imprisonment to which he had been convicted in absentia for high treason. From 1822 to 1827 was Professor Follen in Aarau. After his marriage, which brought him wealth to Follen 1824 retired as a private citizen to Zurich. He became a member of the Aargau Grand Council and took over the Geßnersche printing.
In the decade before the March Revolution of 1848 made his residence in Zurich " Am Sonnenbühl " a focal point for political refugees, among them the poet Georg Herwegh, Hoffmann von Faller life and Ferdinand Freiligrath. Here met German immigrants, many of them high school teachers like Julius Froebel and Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz, together with local Liberals. Follen mentored the young poet Gottfried Keller. Its first poems appeared in literary Comptoir Zurich and Winterthur, a company founded by Froebel publisher who brought out especially writings German " Zensurflüchtlige ". 1843 rescued Follen this publisher through its participation from financial ruin. When Arnold Ruge and Karl Heinzen published in Zurich, broke the "Zurich atheism " from a spring war in which Follen entered against the Left Hegelians Ruge and Heinzen for belief in God and immortality. Schulz and basement supported him, Froebel held on the Ruge page. The dispute divided the Zurich emigrant colony and led to the decline of the Literary Comptoirs than Follen withdrew its participation.
1848 acquired Follen the castle Liebenfels ( Thurgau ), which offered asylum to refugees after the defeat of the revolution in Germany. He dabbled in Liebenfels with sericulture, failed and died in poverty in the home of his daughters.
As a poet of the late Romantic period he wrote romances and ballads. The epic Tristan's parents is known.