Christoph August Tiedge
Christoph August Tiedge (* December 14 1752 in Gardelegen, † March 8, 1841 in Dresden ) was a German poet.
Life
Tiedge was the eldest son of the rector of the town school scholars in Gardelegen and his wife. He studied law at Halle and took 1781 a private tutor to.
1788 moved Tiedge to Halberstadt, where he Secretary of the canon of Steder was four years later. After the death of Steders Tiedge moved with his family to the vicinity of Quedlinburg. After the death of wife of Steder 1797 he lived alternately traveling in Halle and Berlin. From 1805 to 1808, he accompany Elisa von der Recke by Germany, Switzerland and Italy. From 1819 Tiedge remained as her partner in Dresden.
A great love and friendship connected the two life companions even beyond death. Tiedge could after Elisa von der Recke had died on 13 April 1833 unconcerned by their precautionary reason, but lonely, continue to live in their apartment, where nothing could be changed. He was referring not a small pension and was cultivated by the family Pappermann which was devoted to his benefactress.
A nightly coming together circle of girlfriends and friends gave the poet distraction and helped him get over the death of his longtime girlfriend.
Due to an accident in the summer of 1838, the physical and mental state of the 85 -year-old poet deteriorated considerably. After 1840 once again made a swimming trip to Carlsbad, he spent the following winter in good shape. On the night of March 8, 1841 Tiedge died, after a few evenings had previously made a minor discomfort felt.
Work
Tiedge glory was not to last. He never managed to emerge from the shadow of his idols such as Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim et al, and his smaller poetic works were little known. Only his major work Urania (Hall, 1801), " built on a rationalist conception poetic treatment of the Kantian philosophy," let Tiedge name in many people remain in memory, but also his elegies and poems mixed (Hall, 1803) celebrated his term success.
Tiedge and Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven set 1804/ 05 from Urania the poem An die Hoffnung (op. 32) and revised and expanded this song composition in 1813 (op. 94).
"Whether there is a God? Whether he once fulfilled, What longing in tears promises to? Whether, in any world court Explore this reveal mysterious being? Hope is the man! He did not ask! "
In addition, based Beethoven's song The happiness of friendship (op. 88, 1803) and Air cosaque ( WoO 158a No. 16, 1816) on texts by Tiedge. Beethoven and Tiedge met in the summer of 1811 at Teplitz and talked since a correspondence from some friendly Beethoven letters have been preserved.
Writings (selection )
- The loneliness, Leipzig 1792
- Writings. First volume. Epistles, Göttingen 1796
- About the vanity, Halberstadt in 1800
- Elegies and mixed poems, Hall 1803-1807
- Bruck pieces from Neander's life, with Elisa von der Recke, Berlin 1804
- Urania, about God, immortality, and freedom, Halle 1804
- Woman mirror, Halle 1807
- The echo or Alexis and Ida. A Ciclus of songs, Halle 1812
- Monuments of the time, Leipzig 1814
- Aennchen and Robert or the singing tree, with Christian August Gottlob Eberhard, Halle 1815
- Elisa von der Recke, née Countess von Medem; biographical sketch and characteristics, Leipzig 1818
- Anna Charlotte Dorothea, last Duchess of Courland, Leipzig 1823
- Faith, unbelief and superstition of our time with Eduard Köhler, Dresden 1825
- To the Germans. Words of warning on the occasion of the latest happenings to Constantin Opel, Nuremberg 1826
- Consecration hours a noble soul with Friederike Voigt, Dresden 1826
- Walking through the market of life, Leipzig 1835
- C. A. Tiedge collected works 1, Leipzig 1841
- Life and poetic estate, Leipzig 1841
- Addendum, Dresden 1864