Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel
Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel | |
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Born | 28 June 1736 |
Died | 1 May 1809 | (aged 72)
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Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (28 June 1736 – 1 May 1809) was a French-German writer and translator from the Pfeffel family. His texts were put to music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert. He is sometimes also known as Amédée or Théophile Conrad Pfeffel, which is the French translation of Gottlieb ("Godlove").
Biography
Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel was born in
In February 1759, he married Margaretha Cleophe Divoux, a merchant's daughter from
After the French Revolution, he lost the military academy and his fortune, and found jobs with the educational board of Colmar, with the publisher Tübingen-
His poem Der freie Mann was put to music by Ludwig van Beethoven (catalogue number
Pfeffel was a friend or acquaintance of many well-known persons of his period, including Voltaire, Vittorio Alfieri and the Swiss poet Johann Kaspar Lavater, which whom he corresponded for many years. In 1839, his niece Ernestine von Pfeffel (1810–94) married Fyodor Tyutchev, one of the most famous Russian poets.
A statue of Pfeffel by André Friedrich was placed in the Unterlinden Museum in 1859, and a copy of that statue was placed on the Grand Rue in Colmar in 1927.[7]
Bibliography
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- Der Einsiedler, 1761
- Philemon und Baucis: Ein Schauspiel in Versen von einem Aufzuge: 6 editions published between 1763 and 1773 in 4 languages: reprinted as Philemon und Baucis, oder, Jupiters Reise auf die Erde : deutsche Marionetten-Oper: music by Joseph Haydn, 1773
- Dramatische Kinderspiele: 5 volumes published between 1763 and 1774: translated in French
- Magazin für den Verstand und das Herz, 1764, translated in Russian and French
- Neue Beyträge zur Deutschen Maculatur: 2 editions published in 1766
- Freymund, oder der übel angebrachte Stolz: ein Lustspiel in fünf Aufzügen, 1770
- Der Einsiedler: ein Trauerspiel in Versen von einem Aufzuge, 1771
- Serena: ein bürgerliches Trauerspiel, 1776, with Paul Landois
- Lieder für die Colmarische Kriegsschule, 1778
- Fabeln, der Helvetischen Gesellschaft gewidmet: 8 editions published between 1783 and 1815
- Histoire du regne de Marie-Thérèse, 1786
- Poetische Versuche von Gottlieb Conrad Pfeffel: 71 editions published between 1789 and 1968 in 4 language: also published in 3 parts, with a further 11 editions, and with three additional parts in 1802, eventually growing to ten bands by 1810
- Prosaische Versuche: 27 editions published between 1794 and 1813, expanded to 10 bands by 1810
- Contes et nouvelles, 1822 (French translation of a selection of his work)
- Briefe über Religion an Bettina: 7 editions published in 1824 in 3 language
- Ausgewählte Unterhaltungen, Volumes 5–6, 1828
- Bloemlezing uit de fabelen en vertellingen, Dutch translation from 1832
- Fabeln und poetische Erzählungen: 9 editions published between 1840 and 1861: translated as Fables et poésies choisies in 1840
- Historisches Magazin für Verstand und Herz, 1840
- Poetische Werke: Mit Biographie und Portrait: Volumes 1-3, 1841
- G C Pfeffel's Epistel an die Nachwelt, 1859
- Pfeffel-Album: Gaben elsässischer Dichter, 1859
- Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffels Fremdenbuch mit biographischen und culturgeschichtlichen Erläuterungen, 1892
- Skorpion und Hirtenknabe; Fabeln, Epigramme, poetische Erzählungen, Biographie eines Pudels und andere Prosa, 1970
- Biographie eines Pudels und andere Satiren: 2 editions published in 1987
Notes
- ^ a b c "Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ^ a b c "Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon" (in German). Traugott Bautz. 2007.
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(help) - ^ van Beethoven, Ludwig. "Vocal Music (Stolte, Schreier, Olbertz)". Naxos. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ^ Schubert, Friedrich. "Lied - Settings of Various Poets" (29 ed.). Naxos. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ^ "An account of Mademoiselle Theresa Paradis". The London Magazine. 4. 1785.
- ^ "Philemon und Baucis". Classicalarchives.com. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ^ "Monument dedicated to Pfeffel". Office de Tourisme de Colmar. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
Further reading
- Théophile-Conrad Pfeffel de Colmar; souvenirs biographiques, by Lina Bernard, Delafontaine & Rouge, 1866
- Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel's theatralische Belustigungen. Ein Beitrag zur geschichte des französischen Dramas in Deutschland, by Karl Worzel, E. Schmidt, 1911
- Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel. Ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte des Elsass, by Edgar Guhde, Keller, 1964
- Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel : Satiriker und Philanthrop, 1736-1809: Catalogue of the exhibition at the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhein 1986
- Pfeffel, l'Européen: esprit français et culture allemande en Alsace au XVIIIe siècle, by Gabriel Braeuner, Nuée Bleue, 1994
- Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (1736-1809) : Signaturen der Spätaufklärung am Oberrhein, by Achim Aurnhammer and Wilhelm Kühlmann, Rombach, 2010