Heinrich Julian Schmidt
Heinrich Julian Schmidt ( born March 7, 1818 in Marie Werder, West Prussia Province; † March 27, 1886 in Berlin) was a German historian of literature.
Biography
Schmidt was the son of Kalkulators, an official of the financial management. From 1 November 1827, he visited the royal. Lutheran High School of his native town and got on March 30, 1837 his matriculation certificate. He then studied history and philology at the Albertus University of Königsberg, among others, Karl Rosenkranz. His studies he finished on 9 July 1840, the PhD .. In the leaves of memory ( Schmiedeberg ) is a student watercolor portrait of him preserved.
In Konigsberg Schmidt completed his probationary year as a senior teacher and moved in 1843 to teach at the Luisenstädtische secondary school in Berlin. This office he resigned in 1847 and settled in Leipzig, where he became a member of Ignaz Kuranda literary and politically oriented newspaper The Grenzboten. Together with Gustav Freytag Schmidt took over in July 1848, the editors and made it the most influential organ of the programmatic realism. Just Schmidt's numerous literary critical articles about Friedrich Hebbel, Karl Gutzkow and others were highly controversial. This weekly newspaper had political significance because it also the voice of the great constitutional or moderate liberal party of the 50s, the so-called Gotha, was the time.
End of 1861 Schmidt left the Grenzboten and moved to Berlin to Berlin Allgemeine Zeitung. There he remained until late 1863 this had to cease publication. It had been founded by Georg von Vincke and of his party friends of the Old Liberal Party was also funded.
1865 Schmidt sold his share of the Grenzboten to Max Jordan. From that time, he only appeared occasionally with articles to the general public, including in Ernst Dohm and Julius Rodenberg's Salon for Literature, Arts and Social Sciences or Heinrich von Treitschke Prussian Yearbooks.
On his 60th birthday in 1878 by William I. Schmidt received an honorary salary of 1500 marks. In the next few years, Schmidt moved more and more into private life and died three weeks after his 68th birthday on March 27, 1886
Reception
In contrast to this rather benevolent assessment (after Meyers Lexikon, 1888, 4th edition, slightly revised language ) stood views within the German Social Democracy. Franz Mehring described Schmidt as the king of the Sudelgeschlechts. Ferdinand Lassalle wrote in his 1862 published pamphlet Mr. Julian Schmidt of the literary historian, published with Setter scholia, people like Schmidt had " seized from the writings of thinkers and scholars of some make expressions and using the same to its own kind of pompous ' language of education ' generated, which is a true triumph of modern education and shows where it can bring the art. it is a under the laws of fiction routine kaleidoscopic mess jarred and shaken number of words that give no sense, but look at a hair as would give them such and an astonishingly deep! "
Works (selection)
- History of romance in the age of revolution and restoration. Leipzig 1847.
- History of the German Nationallitteratur in the 19th century. Leipzig 1853 ( 2 vols )
- History of French literature since the Revolution. 2 umgearb. Ed Leipzig 1873-74 ( 2 vols ).
- History of German literature from Lessing 's death. 4th edition Leipzig 1858 ( 3 vols, former Title: Jena and Weimar). In 1855.
- History of intellectual life in Germany from Leibniz to Lessing on death, 1681-1781. Leipzig 1861-1863 ( 2 vols )
- Overview of English literature in the 19th century. Special Hausen 1859.
- Schiller and his contemporaries. Leipzig 1859.
- The need for a new party formation. Berlin 1866.
- Pictures from the intellectual life of our time. Leipzig 1870-74 (4 vols )
- Portraits from the 19th century. Berlin 1878.
- History of German literature from Leibniz to our time. Vol 1-5. Berlin: Hertz 1886-1896.