Robert Hamerling

Robert Hamer Ling, born Johann Rupert Hammerling, ( born March 24, 1830 in Kirchberg am Walde, Lower Austria, † July 13, 1889 in Graz) was an Austrian poet and writer.

Life

Robert Hamer Ling was born the son of a penniless Weber in Kirchberg am Walde. In 1840 he attended - with the support of sponsors and supporters - the gymnasium of the Cistercian Abbey of Zwettl and then the Scots School in Vienna. In 1848 he joined the Revolution ( " Germany is my country And Öst'rreich egg, my Motherland! ?" ) And began his studies at the University of Vienna ( Studies: Classical philology, philosophy, history, medicine).

1852 Hamer Ling worked as a substitute teacher for classical languages ​​in Vienna. From 1853 to 1854 he taught at the Academic Gymnasium in Graz, 1855-1866, he worked as a secondary school in Trieste. In the autumn of 1866 he had to retire due to a chronic stomach complaint and went to live in Graz, where his prolific literary production phase began. He died on 13 July 1889 in Stifting (today district of Graz in the 10th district of Ries ) at the age of 59 years. He was buried in the cemetery in Graz St. Leonhard.

Hamerlingstraße was a distant relative of Adolf Hitler.

Importance

Hamerlingstraße counted in his time the most widely read German-language authors. His main works include the epic Ahasuerus in Rome ( written 1865), which introduced him to a wide readership only, and The King of Sion (1869).

Appreciation

In his birthplace Kirchberg am Walde, there is a Robert Hamer Ling Museum, which is supported by Hamerlingstraße Club. The German national politician Georg Ritter von Schönerer has his birthplace tear down in 1891 and erected in its place the foundation house. Today, the foundation house a museum.

In 1890, Rudolf -Fuenfhaus ( 15th District ) named in Vienna the Robert Hamer Ling- alley after him, 1904 in der Josefstadt ( 8th district ) of Hamerlingplatz, as well as to unknown points in time in Penzing ( 14th District ), the Hamerlinggasse and Simmering ( 11th district ) of Hamerlingweg. Similarly, the Hamerlingweg in the local situation Zehlendorf South is named in the district of Zehlendorf Berlin Stadtberzirks of Steglitz-Zehlendorf after him.

In 1980, laid the Austrian Post 's 150th birthday in a special stamp.

Works

Original editions

  • Venus in exile. A poem in five cantos. With lyrical notes. Kober, Leipzig / Prague 1858
  • Senses and Minnen. A teenage life in songs. Richter, Hamburg 1859
  • Ahasuerus in Rome. A seal in six cantos. Richter, Hamburg 1866
  • The King of Sion. Epic poetry in ten songs. Richter, Hamburg 1869 ( digitized )
  • Danton and Robespierre. Tragedy in five acts. Richter, Hamburg 1871
  • Teut. A joke play in two acts. Richter, Hamburg 1872
  • The Seven Deadly Sins. A poem. Richter, Hamburg 1873
  • Aspasia. An artist and romance from ancient Hellas. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1875
  • Lord Lucifer. A comedy in five acts. Richter, Hamburg 1880
  • Cupid and Psyche. Seal in six cantos. Richter, Hamburg 1882
  • Homunculus! Modern epic in ten songs. Richter, Hamburg 1888 ( text and reading)
  • Stages of my life pilgrimage. Autobiography. Publishing house and printing Actien Society ( formerly IF Richter Verlag), Hamburg 1889
  • Apprenticeship of love. Diaries and letters. Publishing house, Hamburg 1890
  • The atomic theory of the will. Contributions to the critique of modern knowledge. Publishing house, Hamburg 1891
  • Last Greetings from Stiftinghaus. Lyrical estate, ed. v. Oskar Linke. Publishing house, Hamburg 1894
  • Unpublished letters. Fourths. Daberkow, Vienna 1897-1901

As editor

  • The flowers year in picture and song. An anthology of modern German poetry. Waldmann, Frankfurt an der Oder in 1881

Newer editions

  • Poems. With a biographical sketch, ed. v. Heinrich O. Proskauer. Amtshofpresse manufactory, Otter Mountain 1993, ISBN 3-922704-33-6
  • Homunculus. Epic in 10 cantos. Province, Weitra 1993, ISBN 3-900878-49-8
  • Aspasia. A love story from ancient Hellas. Grain, winter creek 1995, ISBN 3-934399-03-7
  • Pericles and the battle against Samos. The best stories from the novel " Aspasia ". Grain, winter Bach 2000, ISBN 3-934399-08-8

Werkausgaben

  • Poetical Works, 2 volumes, Campagne, Tiel 1876/77
  • Hamerling works. Popular edition in four volumes. Selected and edited by Michael Raven Maria Lechner. With a foreword by Peter Roseggerhaus. Publishing house, Hamburg 1900
  • Hamerling Complete Works in sixteen volumes. With a picture of life and discharges hg. v. Michael Raven Maria Lechner. Hesse & Becker ( German Classics Library ), Leipzig 1910
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