Fyodor Tyutchev

Fyodor Ivanovich Tjuttschew (Russian Фёдор Иванович Тютчев, scientific transliteration Fedor Ivanovich Tjutcev, even inaccurate Tyutchev; * 23 Novemberjul / December 5 1803greg in Owstug in the government of Orel, Bryansk Oblast today, .. † 15 Julijul / July 27. 1873greg. St. Petersburg) was a Russian poet.

Tjuttschew studied in Moscow, received in 1822 a post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in St. Petersburg, was then extended period of time at the Russian legation in Munich, where he fell in love with Amalie von Lerch field, and (since 1838) operates in Turin. Tjuttschew the person of Chancellor in 1844 attachiert and received in 1857 the Bureau of the Committee of Foreign Censorship in Petersburg transmitted. He held this position until his death.

His poems, which appeared collected in St. Petersburg in 1868, characterized by depth of thought, warmth of feeling and form completion; a selection of these was of Heinrich Noë (Munich 1861), Christoph Ferber and others translated into German. Tjuttschew has made as a translator German poets like Heinrich Heine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and others deserve.

Became known Tjuttschew by a quip that describes the national character of the Russian people very well. Analogously, said Tjuttschew 1866 can "Understanding Russia you do not, and do not compete with mind. It has its own face. One can only believe in the country. "

Honors

To celebrate the 200th birthday in December 2003 a bronze monument Tjuttschews by the Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber and the Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov was unveiled in Munich poet garden. In 2003, Russia issued a 2 -ruble silver coin portrait for the 200th anniversary of his birth.

Reception

The Russian religious philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev resorted to Tjuttschews poems to illustrate his prophecy of the New Middle Ages, according to which "the spiritual principles of the modern era are exhausted.