Hermann Lingg

Hermann ( since 1890 Ritter von ) Lingg (* January 22, 1820 Lindau, † June 18, 1905 Munich ) was a German poet. As a poet and epic poet, he devoted himself particularly the writing of ballads, but also wrote dramas and stories. His cousin Maximilian von Lingg was Bishop of Augsburg.

Life

Hermann Lingg studied medicine at the universities of Munich, Freiburg, Berlin and Prague and joined the Bavarian military service as a physician at. His battalion was (most recently in Rastatt and Donauwörth ) used to put down revolutionary uprisings in Baden. When he had to act against his convictions ( among the revolutionaries there were also some friends of his youth ), he fell into a deep depression and paranoia, took refuge in the woods, was admitted in July 1849 in the military hospital of Munich, released a few weeks later to relatives, in September 1849 brought to the hospital Winnenthal whose director Albert Zeller released him in March 1850 as cured. Lingg moved to Munich, where he was forced to retire and from then financially supported by King Max II, exclusively historical and poetic studies devoted.

First recognition came Lingg by an introduced from Emanuel Geibel collection of his poems (Stuttgart, 1853, 7th Edition 1871, Stuttgart 1868, 3rd edition 1874). His most famous work is The Great Migration (Stuttgart 1866-68, 3 vols ).

A pension and occasional financial support from friends such as Pettenkofer and Justus von Liebig and the German Schiller Foundation enabled the mentally stabilized again Lingg to satisfactory life. In 1854 he married a forest supervisor 's daughter. He met the writer Emanuel Geibel, who introduced him to the Munich circle of poets The crocodiles. He wrote many poems, including the eponymous " The crocodile of Singapore".

Its main estate is located in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

Lingg's grave can be visited on the Old North Cemetery in Munich.

In Munich, a street was named after him in 1906 ( Hermann- Lingg -Straße), as well as the Lingg Road in Lindau (Bodensee).

Since 1839 he was a member of the Corps Suevia Munich.

Awards and honors

1890:

  • Honorary citizen of Lindau
  • Honorary citizen of Munich

Works

  • Catiline, 1864
  • The Valkyries, a dramatic poem in three acts, 1865
  • Poems, 1868
  • Patriotic Ballads and Songs, 1869
  • Love blossoms from Germany's poet grove, lyrical anthology, 1869
  • Poems, Volume 3, 1870
  • Time Poems, 1870
  • Walks through the international art exhibition in Munich, 1870
  • Violante, tragedy, 1871
  • Dark powers, epic poems, 1872
  • The conquest of cholera, Satyrdrama, 1873
  • The Doge Candiano, 1873
  • Berthold Schwarz, 1874
  • The Sicilian Vespers, 1876
  • Macalda, tragedy, 1877
  • Keystones, new poems, 1878
  • Byzantine novellas, 1881
  • From forest and lake, short stories, 1883
  • Clytia. A scene from Pompeii, 1883
  • Skaldenklänge, Balladenbuch contemporary poets ( with the Countess Ballestrem ), 1883
  • Hogni last Helgeland. Nordic Scene, 1884
  • Lyrical, new poems, 1885
  • The Bregenz Klause, 1887
  • Dramatic seals, Complete Edition, 1897
  • My life's journey, Autobiography, 1899
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