Lorenz Leopold Haschka

Lorenz Leopold Haschka ( born September 1, 1749 Vienna, † August 3, 1827 ) was an Austrian poet. Haschka wrote the Austrian Imperial anthem God Save Franz the Emperor.

Life

Lorenz Leopold Haschka studied Humanities and was named after the Jesuit study. Up to resolution in 1773 he was a teacher at the Gymnasium in Worms. Haschka finally went to Vienna, where he gave the poet Johann Baptist von Alxinger lessons in metric.

The grateful poet gave his teacher what these 10,000 florins of his money worries relieved. He swayed in his mind and wrote initially against the pope and the king. Later he composed the Austrian Imperial anthem God Save Franz the Emperor.

From 1780, he was a Mason in the Lodge to St. Joseph in Vienna. He was curator in 1797 at the Vienna University Library and later professor of aesthetics at Vienna Theresianumgasse ( 1798-1822 ).

Haschka frequented the then-known Kramer 's coffee house in Vienna.

1894 the poet Haschkagasse facility in Vienna was named in honor.

Importance

Haschka drafted along the lines of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock patriotic odes. 1797 wrote the text to the composed by Joseph Haydn imperial anthem remained famous God Save Franz the Emperor.

Works

• Our language. 1784
• The kings. 1787
• Imprecations, the French ... sung in February, 1793 Vienna. V. With Kurtzbekischen writings, 1793.
• Vendetta against the French Called ... in November 1793. Vienna, 1793.
• The rescued Teutschland sung in Vienna in November 1795 ode. Vienna, 1796.
• God, get the Emperor! Verfasset by Lorenz Leopold Haschka, In Music gesetzet of Joseph Haydn, the first meal sung February 12, 1797. Vienna,
• On Denis death. 1800
• On the marriage of Her Imperial Highness Maria Ludovica, Archduchess of Austria, with His Majesty Napoleon the First, Emperor of the French, ... on 11 th March 1810, Ode. Vienna: Strauss, 1810