Rudolf von Gottschall

Rudolf Karl von Gottschall ( born September 30, 1823 in Breslau, † March 21, 1909 in Leipzig ) was a German playwright, epic poet, short story writer, literary historian and literary critic. In 1877 he was knighted.

Life

Rudolf von Gottschall, son of a Prussian artillery officer studied since 1841 in Königsberg law, but was expelled for political agitation by the university. He continued his studies in Breslau, then in Berlin continued and was finally able to do a doctorate in 1846 in Königsberg. There he had the profiteroles 1841 Hochhemia connected. In 1843 he became a member of the Old Breslauer fraternity of Raczeks.

In 1847 he was dramaturg at City Theatre Königsberg in 1848 went to Hamburg in 1852 to Breslau. There he married the same year Marie, Baroness of Seherr - Thoss ( by a correspondence with Leopold Schefer present ) and went to Poznan in 1862, where he was briefly editor of the East German newspaper. From 1864 - the year in which he moved to Leipzig - until 1888 was Gottschall editor of the literary entertainment and music for our time (both magazines in possession of the publisher's home FA Brockhaus ) in Leipzig. 1877 Gottschall was ennobled for his services to the German literature of Kaiser Wilhelm I..

Gottschall was for many years president of the Chess Club Augustea Leipzig and after resigning their honorary president. At his suggestion of the German Chess Federation was launched in the middle. Despite its role as a functionary of chess sport, and although he was a regular visitor to the Augustea, he played all his life with a single chess tournament. He limited his playing on individual lots, for example, with his friend Adolf Anderssen while studying in Wroclaw.

Gottschall advanced work was respected during his lifetime, his plays were enjoyed playing. His works were characterized mainly by independent judgment, but also by time-related criticism, which has contributed to the fact that he quickly fell into oblivion after his death.

Chess importance

Gottschall, whose son Hermann von Gottschall was a German chess master, was a founding member, with others such as the scholar and chess players, Carl Göring, Hermann Twenty, Max Lange and Adolf Anderssen, the German Chess Federation on July 18, 1877 in Leipzig.

Works

  • Songs of the presence (poetry ), 1842
  • Censorship Refugees ( poems), 1843
  • Robespierre ( Drama ), 1845
  • Barricades songs ( poems), 1848
  • Vienna immortelles ( poems), 1848
  • The Marseillaise ( Dramatic poems), 1849
  • Lambertine of Méricourt ( Drama ), 1850
  • Ferdinand von Schill ( Drama ), 1850
  • The goddess. A holy song of a woman ( Epic ) 1852
  • Pitt and Fox ( comedy ), 1854
  • The German national literature in the first half of the 19th century, 2 vols, 1855
  • Poetics, 1858
  • Mazeppa ( Drama ), 1859
  • Maja ( Epic ) 1864
  • Travel Pictures from Italy. Wroclaw, Trewendt, 1864
  • The Diplomats ( comedy ), 1865
  • Dramatic works. 12 vols, 1865-80
  • The Nabob ( Drama ), 1866
  • Portraits and Studies, 4 vols, 1870/71
  • The world of vertigo ( comedy ), 1871
  • Janus. Peace and War Poems ( poems), 1873
  • The new Plutarch, 12 vols, 1874-88
  • Under the Spell of the Black Eagle (novel), 3 vols, 1876
  • Arabella Stuart ( drama), 1877
  • Wilting leaves ( novel), 3 vols, 1877
  • The Golden Calf (novel), 3 vols, 1880
  • The inheritance of the blood ( novel), 3 vols, 1882
  • Merlin walks ( epic ), 1887
  • Colorful flowers ( poems), 1891
  • Stunted existences (novel), 2 vols, 1892
  • Modern nerds (novel), 2 vols, 1896
  • The Stone Guest (novel), 1897
  • The Enchanted Castle (novel), 1898
  • Rahab ( Drama ), 1898
  • From my youth ( autobiography), 1898
  • For a critique of modern drama, 1900
  • In free paths (novel), 2 vols, 1901
  • Parasites (novel ), 1906
  • Late songs ( poems ), 1906
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