Christian Jakob Salice-Contessa

Christian Jacob Salice - Contessa ( born December 21, 1767 in Hirschberg, † September 11, 1825 in Liebenthal at Hirschberg ) was a Silesian wholesale merchant, local politicians and romantic writers.

Life

Contessa came from a wealthy Italian patrician family that immigrated from Salò on Lake Como by the then Austrian Silesia in 1690. His father was Leinwandgrossist in Hirschberg. Contessa visited in the years 1782 to 1784 the Jesuit Gymnasium in Breslau and then went into business apprenticeship in Hamburg. In 1793 he took over the family business in Hirschberg. In 1797 he formed along with his school friend Joseph von Zerboni di Sposetti a revolutionary secret society to fight corruption and promote virtue. Displayed when Friedrich Wilhelm II, he received a prison sentence along with Zerboni, but was already in 1798 by Frederick William III. pardoned and released. In 1812 he was actively involved in the preparations for the war of liberation. About this time he bought the secularized Benedictine monastery and Good Liebenthal, near Hirschberg, which was since 1814, through the acquaintance of his younger brother Karl Wilhelm Salice - Contessa with Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann on the permanent meeting place of the romantic poet circle of the Serapion Brothers. In this year, after a lot of years as Chairman of the City Council in Hirschberg, Contessa was appointed Commerce. He died in 1825 at his estate Liebenthal and was buried in the local church. His widow sold the monastery in 1829 to the Council of the town, later it became a Catholic girls' school.

He often used materials from the Silesian Tell the area around Hirschberg or motifs from history in his work. His poetry was distinguished by great emotion.

Works

  • Hermann von Hartenstein. Scenes from the Middle Ages, 1793
  • Alfred, Historical drama, 1809
  • Dramatic plays and stories, 1-2, 1812-1814
  • The Pleasure Garden in the Giant Mountains, 1823
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