Ludolf Wienbarg

Christian Ludolf Wienbarg ( born December 25, 1802 in Altona, † January 2, 1872 in Schleswig ) was a writer of the pre-March period.

Life

1822 Wienbarg, son of a blacksmith, took on the study of theology at the University of Kiel, but he had to cancel in 1826 from financial hardship. For this he took a job as a tutor in Christian Günther Graf von Bernstorff in Lauenburg. During his studies, he became in 1822 a member of the old Kiel fraternity and in 1828 the old Bonner fraternity. In 1829 he received his doctorate in Marburg. 1830/31 he was a private tutor of Charles Ernst Alexander Selby ( 1813-1843 ), the son of the Danish ambassador in The Hague, Baron Charles Borre Selby ( 1778-1849 ). During this time Wienbarg wrote his travel reports "Holland in the years 1831-32 ." In 1833 he returned to the University of Kiel, where he accepted a teaching position.

In 1834 he published a collection of 22 of his lectures under the title " Aesthetic campaigns ". With the dedication "To you, young Germany, I dedicate these words " he significantly shaped the concept of " Young Germany ". In the same year he met Karl Gutzkow know. With this he planned in the summer of 1835, the publication of the journal Revue German, which was banned and confiscated before delivery of the first issue.

In November 1835 Vienna were Bargs writings - along with those of the other so-called " Young Germans " - banned only in Prussia and in December in the entire area of ​​the German Confederation. He was expelled from Frankfurt aM, fled to Helgoland, but returned in the fall of 1836 returned to Hamburg, where he resumed his activities as a journalist and editor of several magazines again. His journalistic work for a liberal, democratic - a young Germany - he was further exposed to persecution and restrictions by the state censors. Since the late thirties he was supported financially by his siblings.

On May 12, 1839 he married the daughter Elisabeth Wilhelmine Dorothea Altona citizens Marwedel. Vienna Bargs outer life circumstances were stabilized by the marriage in any way. Nocturnal drinking escapades in Hamburg pubs, probably contributed to by frustration with the political situation and the prohibition of his writings were his literary and journalistic ambition more and more tired, his productivity was in later years significantly.

From 1840 to 1842 Wienbarg edited the supplement market hall. German literary magazine, from 1842 until June 1846, the Hamburg literary and critical leaves. Occasionally, he worked on the Hamburg new messages and at Altona Mercur. He caused a sensation in the summer of 1846, when his decision to emigrate to America, went through the press. The national enthusiasm for the Schleswig-Holstein movement had burst Vienna Bargs emigration plans. Even in 1846 published two brochures from him, allowing him to be of Danish claims interfered in the struggle for the independence of Schleswig and Holstein. Danish gauntlet, taken by Ludolf Wienbarg and The People's Assembly to Nortorf on September 14, 1846 Over the next two decades he committed himself repeatedly as a publicist for the Schleswig-Holstein liberation movement. In 1848 he participated as a volunteer at the Schleswig-Holstein war as a staff aide in 1849 as a simple hunter in a volunteer corps.

After 1850, the now heavily addicted to alcohol, impoverished and forgotten by the literary public Wienbarg in Hamburg and Altona lived. In 1869 he was admitted with paranoia to a mental hospital in Schleswig, where he died in 1872.

Works

  • Aesthetic campaigns. The young Germany dedicated. Hamburg:. Hoffmann and Campe 1834 ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
  • For the latest literature. From LW, author of "aesthetic campaigns Mannheim. Lowenthal 1835.
  • Walks through the animal circle. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe 1835; Reprint: Frankfurt am Main, 1973.
  • Diary of Heligoland. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1838 digitized.
  • The playwrights of the present time, H. 1 Altona 1839.
  • The People's Assembly to Nortorf on the 14th September 1846 Hamburg:. Hoffmann and Campe, 1846.
  • The Danish gauntlet. Recorded by LW Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1846.
  • After Helgoland and elsewhere. Thoughts on travel. Ed. and m. a Nachw v. Alfred Estermann. Nördlingen: Greno 1987 [ pp. 234f. Literature references ].
  • Holland in the years 1831-32. Hamburg 1833.
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