Franz von Schober
Franz Adolf Friedrich Schober, 1801 by Schober ( born May 17, 1796 Torup Castle in Malmo, Sweden, † September 13, 1882 in Dresden) was an Austrian poet, librettist and lithographer as well as actor in Breslau and Legationsrat in Weimar.
Life
Franz Schober was born to Austrian parents in Sweden, as his father was administrator goods in Scania ( Skåne). 1801, the family was elevated to the Austrian nobility. The father died on February 8, 1802 Schober's mother, Catherine born Derffel. (* 1762 in Baden bei Wien, † 1833 in Vienna), returned with Franz and his three older siblings Axel († 1817), Ludovica († 1812) and Sophie ( † 1825) - their exact dates of birth are unknown so far - back to Austria.
From 1803 on, Schober was educated in the Salzmann Schnepfenthal. Since 1806 he lived in Austria, visited the Vienna Academic High School and graduated in 1808 in Kremsmünster. From 1815 he lived in Vienna again. He first attended the University on the study of philosophy, but which he did not graduate.
Still in Upper Austria, he made friends with the siblings of Spaun, in Vienna then with Johann Mayrhofer, Johann Chrysostom Senn, Leopold Kupelwieser, St. Francis of breaking man, Franz Schubert, Moritz von Schwind, Eduard of Farmer Field and Ernst von Feuchtersleben and later at the Vienna stays among others with Ottilie von Goethe and their children, as Walther von Goethe.
Even at the time of his later broken engagement with Franz von Schober break 's sister Justina went from 1823 to 1825 in Breslau - during his engagements with Gottlob Benedict Bierey as an actor under the pseudonym " Torupson " - not only among others with Richard Wagner's older siblings Albert and Louise and Heinrich Schmelka on the stage, but also came in close contact with the journalist Karl Schall and Johann Theodor Mosewius, Karl Witte and Antonio Mayer from the environment of Carl von Holtei and Eugene of Vaerst. Likewise, in Breslau he was madly adored by Ferdinand Eßlairs daughter Hedwig and Marie, the wife of the (glass) painter Albert hump.
1826-1829 Schober led the Lithographic Institute in Vienna. He was a partner and educator in the family of Count Leo Festetics in Hungary Tolna, travel companion of Franz Liszt and initiated that the frescoes were designed in the Wartburg von Schwind. From 1856 he was married to the young writer Thekla von Gumpert, of which he already from 1860 but lived apart again.
Schober distributed to various collections in Vienna, Hamburg and Weimar estate is one of the important sources for the biography of Franz Schubert and Moritz von Schwind dar. With their first biographer Heinrich Kreissle of Hellborn and Hyacinth Holland he was in constant contact since 1861 or 1871.
Music poems
Schober wrote numerous, sometimes set to music by Schubert poems - including An die Musik and Hunter love song - and in 1821 wrote the libretto for Schubert's opera Alfonso und Estrella. Also, Liszt and other composers set texts from him.
Publications (selection)
- Poems (1842 )
- Poems (1865 )