Rudolf Lindau
Rudolf Leopold August Lindau Guard Set ( born October 10, 1829 in Gardelegen, † October 14th 1910 in Paris) was a German writer and diplomat.
Life
Rudolf Lindau was the son of a physician and later Justice Commissioner Karl Ferdinand Leopold Lindau (1797-1868), who had converted from Judaism to Protestantism, and born of Henriette Müller Bernadine Gardelegen. His younger brother is the writer and playwright Paul Lindau. 1847 the family moved to Berlin. Rudolf Lindau studied philology in Berlin, Giessen, Paris and Montpellier and graduated in 1855 with the Dr. phil. from.
After that he worked as a tutor in France and was then private secretary to the Minister later Jules Barthélemy- Saint- Hilaire. 1860 Lindau moved as a diplomatic representative of Switzerland to Japan, worked in Yokohama as representatives of a watch company, founded the Japan Times, the first English-language newspaper on the island, and the Japan Punch. He also wrote articles as a correspondent for French newspapers such as the " Revue des Deux Mondes " and the "Journal des Débats ".
From 1859 Lindau traveled to China, Siam, Japan, India and California, where he also took diplomatic tasks.
In 1869 he returned to Germany, took over 1870/71, the war coverage for the Prussian State Gazette and the North German Allgemeine Zeitung. After the German -Prussian War in 1873 he attache at the German Embassy in Paris. Here he worked under the Ambassador Harry von Arnim and from 1874 under his successor Clovis Hohenlohe. His reports on the French press being found in government circles in Berlin attention.
His novels and short stories, which he subsequently wrote, showed the influence of Turgenev in its infancy. 1878 Lindau moved to the central office of the Chancellor to Berlin and was promoted in 1880 to the real Legationsrat the Foreign Office. Its main task was to work as Presserefent the Reich Chancellery, where he established a classification of newspaper and press reports. This organization of press work enabled the Chancellor to respond promptly and effectively to relevant reports.
His literary works have been respected by Theodor Fontane. As he was struggling with health problems, he had himself transferred in 1892 into temporary retirement. Nevertheless, he took then in Constantinople Opel as an expert in matters of the Orient on an activity. On Helgoland from 1902 he spent some time.
Rudolf Lindau was for many years the staff at the Revue des Deux Mondes. He died at the age of 81 years in Paris.
Works
- Un Voyage Autour du Japon, 1864 (Eng. travel to Japan, 2010)
- The Prussian Guards in the campaign of 1870-71, 1872
- Robert Ashton, novel, 1877
- Four novellas and short stories, 1878
- Gordon Baldwin, novella, 1878
- Good company, novel, 1879
- The small world story, 1880
- The guest, novel, 1883
- Winter days, short stories, 1883
- On the trip, short stories, 1886
- Two souls, novel, 1888
- The long Dutchman, novella, 1889
- Martha, novel, 1892
- Love marriages, novel, 1894
- Traveling companions, novella, 1894
- Silence. New short stories, 1895
- From China and Japan. Travel memories, 1896
- Tales of a Effendi, 1896
- Turkish stories, 1897
- The Fanar and Mayfair, novel, 1898
- Two trips in Turkey, 1899
- An unhappy people, novel, 1903
- Collected novels and short stories, 1904f
- Old stories, 1904
- Tales from the East, 1909
- A gleaning tales and translations, 1910