Friedrich von Matthisson

Friedrich von Matthisson ( born January 23, 1761 Hohendodeleben near Magdeburg, † March 12, 1831 in Wörlitz in Dessau ) was a German poet, prose writer and librarian.

Life

His father Johann Friedrich Matthisson was a pastor since 1758 and died a few weeks before taking place in the rectory of St. Peter's Church birth of his son Frederick. This took place from 1770 in the house of his uncle's recording and visited with him the literary Wednesday Club in Magdeburg. From 1773 he attended the school in the monastery mountains. He then studied theology in Halle, philology and literature. He worked as a teacher at the philanthropist in Dessau and went out with the young Count Sievers from Livonia travel, including to Hamburg, Eutin, Heidelberg and Mannheim. He learned Klopstock, Johann Heinrich Voss and Matthias Claudius know. After two years' residence with his friend Karl Viktor von Bonstetten in Nyon on Lake Geneva in 1790 he took the place of a teacher in a wealthy merchant in Lyon. In 1794 he was appointed Reader and traveling companion of Princess Luise of Anhalt- Dessau, traveled with her in the years to Italy, Switzerland and the Tyrol. Landgrave Friedrich V of Hesse -Homburg appointed him councilor, Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden 1801 Legationsrat. Appointed by King Frederick I of Württemberg in 1812 to Stuttgart, he worked here as a theater director and chief librarian, was knighted, went out of service in 1828 and retired in 1829 after Wörlitz back.

Matthisson was highly esteemed by his contemporaries, and others, also by Friedrich Schiller, after his death, but soon largely forgotten. At his fall the Romantics had some share. August Wilhelm Schlegel polemic against the much vaunted lyricism Matthisson with a wicked epigram:

August Thieme, however, wrote of him:

Many of the poems were set to music and songs Matthisson by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, for example, " Adelaide ( Beethoven) ". Beethoven thanked on August 4, 1800 at Matthisson, for the Blissful pleasure, what me their poetry ever ever made ​​and is still making.

A partial estate is located in the German Literature Archive in Marbach, another in the Dessau Anhalt Regional Library.

Works

  • Poems, Wroclaw 1787
  • Friedrich Mathissons poems. Edited by Joh. Füßli. Increased circulation. Zurich. Bey Orell, Gessner, Fuseli and Company., 1792. ( Digitized in the Digital Library of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern)
  • Memories, Zurich 1810-16, 5 ​​volumes
  • Poems. Final edition, Zurich 1821
  • Writings. Final edition, Zurich 1825-29, 8 ​​volumes (Volume 1: Poetry, Vol 2-8: memories )

Newer editions

  • On the evening star. Poems, ed. by Christian Eger, Hall 2002, ISBN 3-89923-016-7
  • Woerlitzer leaves. Poetry, prose, letters, ed. by Christian Eger, Hall 2005, ISBN 3-939335-01-0
  • The root directory of Friedrich von Matthisson. Facsimile, transcription, and comment / ed., Annotated and with an introduction by Erich way ..., 2 volumes, Wallenstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-835300-02-4 [ 336 hand-written and pictorial records personalities of the German and Swiss intellectual history between 1782 and 1830 ]
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Charles Victor de Bonstetten Hesse-Homburg Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden Intendant Adelaide (Beethoven) Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Neue Deutsche Biographie Zeno.org Integrated Authority File
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