Georg Nikolaus von Nissen

Georg Nikolaus Nissen ( born January 22, 1761 Haderslev, † March 24, 1826 in Salzburg) was a Danish diplomat and writer. As a husband of Mozart's widow, he became one of the first biographers.

Life

Georg Nikolaus Nissen was the son of the merchant Jens Nissen and Anna Elisabeth Zoëga that came from an influential Danish family. After studying law at the University of Copenhagen (1778-1781) was, Nissen first employed by the General Post Office Copenhagen, which was led by his uncle Jürgen Zoëga. In 1791 he joined the diplomatic service, however. First, the Danish envoy at the Reichstag in Regensburg, he lived since 1793 as Secretary of Legation of the Danish embassy in Vienna. At least since 1798 he lived in the home of Mozart's widow Constanze. The two married on June 26, 1809 in Bratislava. In 1810, the couple moved to Copenhagen, where Nissen worked as a censor and the State Council.

Between 1820 and 1824, the couple traveled to Germany and Italy and settled in August 1824 in Salzburg down. Here Nissen began work on one of the first biographies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife. It Nissen 's efforts to neutral point of view. He made a first attempt to document all the Mozart Written and deliver from the traditional correspondence of the Mozart family life a faithful description. However, Constanze had numerous letters Leopold Mozart, who was all his life against the connection of his son with Konstanze Weber, destroyed. Nissen had to leave his work unfinished, he died in 1826.

At the behest of his widow 's biography of Mozart in 1828 was completed with the assistance of the physician Johann Heinrich Feuerstein and the Berlin Music Director Gaspare Spontini and edited by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig.

About Nissen's elevation to the peerage nothing is documented. Therefore, some historians, the thesis, Konstanze have invented this. Georg Nikolaus Nissen itself has proven not called ' Earl of nits '.

Nissen's grave is located on the St. Sebastian's Cemetery in Salzburg Linzer Gasse. In Nissen's tomb is: " Georg Nicolaus von Nissen, Royal Danish real Etats- Rath Knight of the Dannebrog husband of the widow Mozart.. . ." In the district of Salzburg - gneiss Leopoldskron the Georg von Nissen Street is named after him.

Works

• Biography W. A. Mozart. After original letters, collections everything about him written, with many new Beylagen, stone pressing, music sheets and a facsimile (fourth reprint of the edition Leipzig 1828 ISBN 3-487-04548-6; new edition: Hildesheim, 1986)