Daniel Lessmann
Daniel Lessmann, also: Leßmann; ( Born January 18, 1794 in Soldin, † September 2, 1831 in Wittenberg ) was a German historian and poet.
Life
Born to Jewish parents, Lessmann visited the Joachimsthalerstrasse school, studied medicine in Berlin and took 1813 as a volunteer in the wars of liberation in part. Been taken in by the hunters he suffered in Lützen a wound, but after his recovery took part in further hostilities. After the war he continued to study, came to Vienna as a tutor, was in 1820 in Verona, and returned in 1823 to Berlin, where he worked as a freelance writer.
He has written articles in major newspapers literature the Restoration period, which described life in southern countries, made historical essays, short stories and poems. The aspiring author who was also in contact with Heinrich Heine, came to Christianity in 1824 and fell into a deep depression. On a walking tour with a new manuscript from Berlin to Leipzig and Dresden for Publishers Search he hanged himself on the way from Kropstädt to Wittenberg, where they found his body on September 2.
As witty storyteller and poet he found in literary circles, although recognition, but he did not attain financial success with his books. Melancholy, irony and satire shaped more and more the work of a deeply disillusioned by the life poet.
Selections
- Translation of Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed, Berlin 1827
- Translation of Giovanni Rosinis nun of Monza, Berlin 1827
- The hiking book a melancholy, 2 volumes, Berlin 1831/32 the novel. Vol 1 new ed. by Hermann Conradi 1885
- Amathusia, Berlin 1824
- Luise von Halling, 2 volumes, Berlin 1827. Reprint with proof of Hartmut Vollmer in * preparation ( Briefr. )
- Cisalpine leaves or life, education and custom in northern Italy, 2 vols, Berlin 1828
- Novels, 4 volumes, Berlin 1828-30
- The Heidemühle, 2 volumes, Berlin 1833
- Estate, 3 vols, Berlin 1837/38