Julius Mosen
Julius Mosen, actually Julius Moses ( born July 8, 1803 in Marieney / Vogtland, † October 10, 1867 in Oldenburg ) was a German poet and writer who is mainly known as a poet of Andreas Hofer song today.
Life
Julius Moses was born the son of John Gottlob Moses, who worked as a cantor and schoolmaster in the parish of Marieney. The original Jewish family is found mid-16th century in Prague. The family and its modification by Julius Mosen in 1844 was up to the present day always an opportunity to bring the family to the Jewish religion connection. Father and grandfather but were in Marieney or Arnold Green evangelical pastor and cantors. In Marieney there was also no Jewish community, in which the father of Julius Mosen said to have acted as the "free opinion " was read on the occasion of his 200th birthday in the magazine. Also explored until the 16th century ancestors were members of the Christian faith. In Plauen, he attended high school and then the University of Jena. In Jena, he joined the fraternity in 1822 in Germania. During a one-year stay in Italy he received suggestions for his most important works (Ritter Wahn, Cola Rienzi, The Congress of Verona).
After graduating in law, he worked from 1828 to 1830 in Mark Neukirchen at a law firm, from 1831 until his removal to Dresden as court actuary in Kohren near Leipzig. In 1835 he settled as a lawyer in Dresden. Here he became a member of the Masonic Lodge to the three sisters. During this period mainly dramas. In 1844 he moved to Oldenburg, where he worked as a dramaturge at the Court Theatre. In the same year the name Moses was amended by Ministerial Order in Dresden Mosen. But as early as 1846 he became seriously ill with a rheumatic disease and was the last twenty years of his life bedridden. His grave is located on the Gertrude Cemetery in Oldenburg.
Artistic creation
His most famous poem is the text of the Andreas-Hofer- song ( "At Mantua in chains " ), the national anthem is the Austrian province of Tyrol today. In the poem " The last ten from the fourth regiment ," he glorified the bravery of the Polish insurgents during the November Uprising in the Battle of Ostroleka.
In life and work of Mosen can find three suffering motifs: the love of country, freedom struggle and finally the now destroyed German -Jewish symbiosis.
In the " Memoirs " he writes of the " attachment to the native soil of the Vogtland " that attracts the gaze, " as would there far back in the distance under the resin- dripping fir trees, where the mountain rise terraced in dark blue stain, some secret be covered, that attracts us to him and would like to reveal to us. " Vogt countries are for him the " Saxon Tyroler, only frugal, only regsamer, only stubborn in pursuit of its goals, but also honest, albeit rough. "
Works
- Knight mania, epic
- Henry the Finkler, King of the Germans, Historical drama in five acts, 1836
- Ahasuerus, Epic poem, 1838
- Images in Moose, short story collection
- Emperor Otto III, Drama, 1842
- Cola Rienzi, Duke Bernhard, Drama, 1842
- The brides of Florence, Drama, 1842
- Bernard of Weimar, Drama
- The son of the prince, Drama
- The Congress of Verona, Roman