Jens Immanuel Baggesen
Jens Immanuel Baggesen (* February 15, 1764 in Korsør, Zealand, † October 3, 1826 in Hamburg) was a Danish writer, translator and followers of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. A part of his works he published urschriftlich in German. Even during his lifetime he was worshiped as a Danish Wieland.
Life
Baggesen was the son of very poor parents and had been working as a twelve year old as a copyist. The life sickly Baggesen could do well in school in Slagelse and studying in Copenhagen and Göttingen from 1785 thanks to a scholarship for theology. While still a student took the enlightened student of reverence for Immanuel Kant 's middle name Immanuel.
1785 joined Baggesen with comic stories in the style of Christoph Martin Wieland to the public, the overwhelming success allowed him his lifelong passion, traveling, about 1789, when he initially went along with Friederike Brun, through Germany, Switzerland, France and the UK. In Paris, he joined the Confederation of the Freemasons. The official reason for this educational travel was Baggesen health. In fact, he wanted to get away from Copenhagen, because he had spectacularly failed the audience with the libretto for the opera " Holger Danske ", a joint project with the composer Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen.
On this trip learned Baggesen his lifelong friend Johann Heinrich Voss and married in 1790 Sophie von Haller, granddaughter of scientist Albrecht von Haller. With her he had two sons: Carl Albrecht Reinhold Baggesen and August Ernst Baggesen. On the return trip to Copenhagen in late summer of 1790 Baggesen was invited to Weimar and Jena into the circle to Christoph Martin Wieland and Friedrich Schiller. Here he met, among others Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and Johann Christoph Bode know, who introduced him to the Illuminati. Baggesen joined the Order in the name Immanuel.
Baggesen was provost in 1796, 1798, appointed Schulpräpositus and theater director. He gave these offices after a few years and moved on in 1797, after the death of his wife, to Paris. There he married a second time on 1799. In 1811 he accepted a call to the University of Kiel and taught there until 1813 as a professor of Danish language and literature.
1813 went Baggesen back to Copenhagen, where his critical articles against Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger sparked a public feud literature, which lasted until 1820. This year died his second wife. He was impoverished and had to serve a prison sentence because he could not pay a debt. The life threatening depression of artists responded to the blows of fate with temporary mental derangement.
Gesundet Again, he went to Berne, but again traveled a lot and restless. In addition to visits to Paris and Weimar, he searched in vain relief from his disease in the spas Teplice, Karlovy Vary and Marianske Lazne. On the way home after a cure Baggesen died on October 3, 1826 in Hamburg in the Masonic Hospital. The common tomb for him and Carl Leonhard Reinhold is located on the Park Cemetery Eichhof near Kiel.
In addition to love poetry and inspired odes to the French Revolution published Baggesen mainly by Christoph Martin Wieland and Ludvig Holberg influenced narrative poems. In Denmark Jens Immanuel Baggesen is considered one of the great storytellers of the 18th and early 19th century. His most famous work is the travel story " The Labyrinth ", in which he describes his impressions while on a trip from Copenhagen to Basel in the year of the French Revolution in 1789. In Germany, his work is relatively unknown, although Baggesen has always advocated the peaceful coexistence and cultural exchange between Germans and Danes.