Ludwig Derleth

Ludwig Derleth ( born November 3, 1870 in Gerolzhofen; † January 13, 1948 in San Pietro de Stabio, Switzerland ) was a German writer.

After studying philosophy and literature Derleth worked as a secondary teacher of ancient languages ​​. During his years in Munich, he came up with the George circle in contact and also belonged to the Kosmikerkreis to Alfred Schuler and Ludwig Klages. Later he worked as a freelance writer in Rome, Basel, Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna and from 1935 in Ticino, where he died in 1948. The Ludwig Derleth secondary school in his hometown of Gerolzhofen is named after him.

Work

As a poet he first published in the leaves for the arts and in the journal Pan. His passionate efforts aimed at a new hierarchical order of a purified Catholic Christianity, which he announced in his 1904 published proclamations with revolutionary pathos. His main work The Frankish Koran (1932 ) is a large-scale world singing of the " pilgrimage of the human soul by God to God ", a powerful life and faith book, on which he worked for almost 40 years.

Other Publications: Seraphinische Wedding ( 1939) and The Death of Thanatos (1945 ).

Probably Derleth Thomas Mann served as the model for his short stories When the Prophet and Glaidus Dei.