Heinrich Clauren
Heinrich Clauren (* March 20, 1771 in Dobrilugk (Lausitz ); † August 2, 1854 in Berlin, actually Carl Gottlieb Samuel Heun ) was a German writer.
Life
Carl Gottlieb Samuel Heun, son of a bailiff and manor owner, devoted himself during their studies to writing. For his literary work, he used the pseudonym H. Clauren, an anagram for Carl Heun. His study of law in Göttingen and Leipzig, 1788-1790 Clauren graduated from with a doctorate in law at the University of Leipzig.
Following this, he took in Berlin a job as private secretary to Minister of Heynitz. In 1792 he was private secretary in a department of the General Board of the Prussian state. Some time later, he was transferred as an assessor to the mine and metallurgical office. In 1800 he obtained the title of a Commission Council.
A year earlier married Henriette Clauren in Leipzig Breitkopf. With her he had a son.
Heun occurred already in 1791 as a student of the Masonic Lodge Minerva of the three palm trees in Leipzig. In 1803 he became a member of the Masonic Lodge Archimedes to Reißbret in Altenburg, in 1805 to found the Lodge Archimedes for an everlasting covenant in Gera, where he remained until his death; He was also an honorary member of the Minerva.
In the years 1801-1810 he managed the estates of the canon of Tresckow in the Polish provinces. At the same time he was also a silent partner of a Leipzig bookseller and co-editor of the Jena Literary of newspaper. 1810 Clauren returned to Berlin, Councilor was Karl August von Hardenberg, editor of the newspaper in the Prussian headquarters, field and participated in the campaigns of 1813/14 in part at headquarters. 1813 appeared his song The king cried and all, all came / The weapons courageously in hand, the starting line was a household word. In 1814 he became a Knight of the Iron Cross. In 1815 he attended the Congress of Vienna. Between 1815 and 1819 he was a Prussian charge d'affaires in Saxony and in 1820 took over the post of editorial director of the General Prussian State newspaper. From 1824 he was employed as a Privy Councillor at the General Post Office.
Claurens success as a writer began with the ( published in installments ) narrative mimili (1816 ), a love story between a awarded the Iron Cross, German military officer and a mountain farmer's daughter in the Bernese Oberland, the since Jean -Jacques Rousseau's epistolary novel Julie or the New Heloise served fashionable romanticizing the Swiss Alps and its inhabitants, and how the template describes the struggle of virtue against the desire. He was a prolific writer who wrote series of novels and short stories. Only the 1827-1830 published writings comprise about 7,200 pages. It appeared translations into several languages ; a 1828 published in Blackwood 's Edinburgh Magazine ( very free ) translation of the story The Predator castle is said to have inspired Edgar Allan Poe to his novel The Fall of the House of Usher.
1825/26 - Clauren was now one of the most widely read novelists - there was a literary scandal when Wilhelm Hauff, as a satirical attack on the contemporary popular literature as a whole, in the manner Claurens and under his pseudonym published a novel: The Man in the Moon or the train of the heart is the fate voice. Hauff intensified the attack again with the 1827 published controversial sermon on H. Clauren and the man in the moon, in which he disclosed the intention of his parody to make Clauren ridiculous and the triviality of the content and the writing style of Clauren deliberately polemical analyzed.
The success of the attacked the contemporary audience, however, did not harm this: Until 1834 published annually Clauren a new volume of his forget-me; a total of 26 volumes. His collection jest and earnest enjoyed virtually unbridled demand grew and finally to 40 volumes.
Approximately nine years a widower, married Clauren 1831 in Berlin Friederike Sophie Hambrauer. With her he had two daughters. He died as a Privy Councillor with 83 years in Berlin.
The Leipzig bookseller and publisher Georg Joachim Goschen was married to Claurens sister.
Work
- The Predator Castle (1812, 1818), reprint: jmb, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-940970-88-6
- Mimili (1816 ) digitized
- Rank addiction and delusion Faith (1821 )
- 1824: The groom from Mexico or the potato in the Schaale
- My excuse in the world (1822 )
- The Women's Island (1823 )
- Love and error (1827 ) ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
- Jest and earnest (1820-1828)
- Forget-Me (1808-1834)