Moritz von Strachwitz

Moritz Karl Wilhelm Anton Graf von Strachwitz ( born March 13, 1822 in Peterwitz in Frankenstein, Silesia, † December 11, 1847 in Vienna) was a well-known ballads poet who was a role model for Theodor Fontane's ballad seals in the tunnel over the river Spree.

Life

He came from a Silesian noble family, studied law in Breslau and Berlin. Since 1845 he was a member of the Corps Silesia Wroclaw. After graduation he served his internship at the District Court Grottkau. After that he went on trips to Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Then he initially returned to his estate Peterwitz, then moved on but his Moravian Good Schebetau. On a trip to Italy, he fell ill and died in Venice shortly before his return to Vienna.

Many of his poems were set to music, among other things, by Robert Schumann, Carl Loewe and Johannes Brahms. Particularly well known were, among others, "The Song of the wrong Count " and "Hie Welf! ".

From his contemporaries Ludwig Fraenkel he was in the "General German Biography " characterized as follows: " In the stressful life of the big cities, its a certain restlessness had taken possession, [ ... ] he never came back to the right rest, to enjoy life, to satisfaction with his work and himself, to the knowledge of his profession "and" He was a bold, in the demoralizing corridors of the world's great remaining naive nature. "

His most famous poem is "The heart of Douglas ," is quoted occasionally from the:

And:

Works

• Songs of Awakening, 1842
• New poems, 1848 ( poems from the estate ) ( GBS)
• Poems, Wroclaw 1850 ( Complete Edition )