Max Ring

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Max Ring
Zauditz, Austrian Empire
Died28 March 1901(1901-03-28) (aged 83)
Berlin, Prussia
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)physician, novelist, poet, and dramatist

Max Ring (August 4, 1817 in Zauditz - March 28, 1901 in Berlin) was a German physician, novelist, poet, and dramatist.[1]

Biography

Max Ring was the son of a farmer in the town of

Zauditz, Austrian Empire.[1]

He attended the Jewish community school in

Moritz Carrière, Karl Grün and Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim
and made his debut as an author in 1839 with a volume of poems that he edited together with his friend Moritz Fränkel.

Graduating as in 1840, he began practicing medicine at

revolution in 1848, Ring took part in the political movement as a staunch democrat and was attacked with an anti-Semitic pamphlet by his opposition.[2]

Die Gartenlaube meeting (1877)

In 1849, Ring published his first novel, Berlin and Breslau, about the revolution. In 1850 he moved to Berlin, where he quickly made contact with literary circles. He befriended

Karl Heymann, and in 1862 discontinued his medical practise in order to devote himself to literature exclusively. He seldom left Berlin and made only a few long trips to Austria, Switzerland and Northern Italy. In 1890 the King of Prussia awarded him the title of honorary professor.[3]

Ring achieved his first success as a dramatist in the comedy "Unsere Freunde," and his second, in the drama "Ein Deutsches Königshaus." He became a very active contributor to Die Gartenlaube and, from 1863 to 1865 when the publication was prohibited in Prussia, he created a similar, spin-off publication in Berlin under the title Der Volksgarten.[4]

Heinrich von Kleist's grave inscription

Heinrich von Kleist was a German poet, who died with his lover Henriette Vogel in a suicide pact.[5] Because of the nature of their deaths, Kleist and Vogel were denied church burial and were instead interred where they died and the gravesite fell into disrepair for most of the nineteenth century. It was freshened up when Kleist became admired by late-century nationalists and was commemorated with a large stonehead for the 1936 Olympic Games.[6] A poem of Ring's was inscribed on tomb. In 1941, Georg Minde-Pouet, a Nazi Kleist scholar and librarian, informed Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels that the quatrain on the tomb was written by a Jew, and Ring's words were removed.[7]

Works

  • Gedichte. Leipzig, 1839 (with Moritz Fränkel)
  • De Typho Abdominali, Berlin 1840 (Diss.; Digitalisat)
  • Revolution. Breslau, 1848. (Gedicht)
  • Berlin und Breslau. 1847–1849. Roman. 2 Bde., Breslau, 1849
  • Die Genfer. Trauerspiel in 5 Akten. Breslau, 1850
  • Die Kinder Gottes. Roman. 3 Bde. Breslau, 1851
  • Der große Kurfürst und der Schöppenmeister. Historischer Roman aus Preußens Vergangenheit. 3 Bde. Breslau, 1852
  • Stadtgeschichten. 4 Bde. Berlin, 1852
  • Aus dem Tagebuches eines Berliner Arztes. Berlin, 1856
  • Hinter den Coulissen. Humoristische Skizzen aus der Theaterwelt. Berlin, 1857
  • John Milton und seine Zeit. Historischer Roman. Frankfurt a. M., 1857
  • Rosenkreuzer und Illuminaten. Historischer Roman aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. 4 Bde. Berlin, 1861
  • Vaterländische Geschichten. 2 Bde Berlin, 1862
  • Neue Stadtgeschichten. 2 Bde. Berlin, 1865
  • Ein verlorenes Geschlecht. 6 Bde. Berlin, 1867
  • Lorbeer und Cypresse. Literaturbilder. Berlin, 1869 (Darin u. a. über Johann Christian Günther, Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich von Kleist, Friedrich Hölderlin)
  • Götzen und Götter. Roman. 4 Bde. Berlin, 1870
  • In der Schweiz. Reisebilder und Novellen. 2 Bde. Leipzig, 1870
  • Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Berlin, 1870
  • Carl Sand und seine Freunde. Roman aus der Zeit der alten Burschenschaft. 4 Bde. Berlin, 1873
  • David Kalisch, der Vater des Kladderadatsch und Begründer der Berliner Lokalposse. Berlin, 1873
  • Der Kleinstädter in Berlin. 2 Bde. Berlin, 1873
  • Unfehlbar. Zeitroman. 4 Bde. Jena, 1874
  • Der große Krach. Roman. 4 Bde. Jena, 1875
  • Neue Stadtgeschichten. 3 Bde. Leipzig, 1876
  • Das Haus Hillel. Historischer Roman aus der Zeit der Zerstörung Jerusalems. 3 Bde. Berlin, 1879
  • Die Frauenverschwörung, zweiaktige Operette, Musik von Gustav Hinrichs, unter Hernahme des Stoffs des Lustspiels von Arthur Müller Die Verschwörung der Frauen oder Die Preußen in Berlin von 1858, 1886
  • Berliner Leben. Kulturstudien und Sittenbilder. Leipzig, 1882
  • Berliner Kinder. Roman. 3 Bde. Berlin, 1883
  • Die deutsche Kaiserstadt Berlin und ihre Umgebung. 2 Bde. Leipzig, 1883–1884
  • Die Spiritisten. Erzählung. Berlin, 1885
  • Erinnerungen. 2 Bde. Berlin, 1898

References

  1. ^ a b Biographie, Deutsche. "Ring, Max - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  2. ^ a b Kohut, Adolph (July 30, 1897). "Max Ring. For his 80th birthday". Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums. 31. Berlin: 369–370.
  3. ^ a b Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Leipzig 1913, Vol. 5, pp. 476-477.
  4. ^ a b "RING, MAX - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  5. OCLC 724155108.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  6. ^ Stein, Sadie (2014-10-16). "Final Chapter". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  7. ^ Commons, Wiki (18 November 2011). "'Ringing' Voice of German Jewish Compassion". The Forward. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
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