Global InformationGustav von Schlabrendorf information
Gustav von Schlabrendorf | |
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| Born | Richard Gustav von Schlabrendorf(f) 22 March 1750 Stettin (since 1945 known as Szczecin), Pomerania Prussia |
| Died | 21 August 1824 (aged 74) Batignolles (Paris), France |
| Alma mater | Halle |
| Occupation(s) | Enlightment philosopher Writer Critic-commentator |
| Notable work | "Napoleon Buonaparte and the French People under his Consulate" ("Napoleon Bonaparte und das französische Volk unter seinem Konsulate") |
| Spouse | none |
| Parent(s) | Ernst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorf (1719 – 1769) Anna Carolina von Otterstaedt (1727 – 1784) |
Gustav, Count of Schlabrendorf (22 March 1750 – 21 August 1824), described in various sources as a "citizen of the world" ("Weltbürger"), was a political author and an enlightenment thinker. During or shortly before the first part of 1789 he relocated to Paris from where he enjoyed a ringside seat for the unfolding phases of the French Revolution, which, initially, he enthusiastically supported. He backed the revolutionary precepts of "Liberty, Equality and Brotherhood". He soon had reason to become mistrustful of the revolution's radicalisation, however, and during the "Terror" ("Terreur") period spent more than 17 months in prison, avoiding a terminal rendezvous with the guillotine only through an administrative oversight. He subsequently wrote several critical works about Napoléon Bonaparte. It was a reflection of his increasingly idiosyncratic lifestyle that by the 1820s he was becoming known as "The Hermit of Paris" (or, in certain more scholarly contemporary sources, "Eremita Parisiensis"): he was happy to endorse the soubriquet, on occasion using it to describe himself.[1][2][3][4]
- ^ Colmar Grünhagen (1890). "Schlabrendorf: Gustav Graf v. S., philanthropischer Sonderling, 1750 bis 1824". Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, München. pp. 320–323. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ Hellmut G. Haasis (10 April 1992). "Betrogene Liebe". Der "Anti-Napoleon": Hans Magnus Enzensbergers schlampige Edition (book review). Die Zeit (online). Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ Philipp Hunnekuhl. "Literary transmission, exile and oblivion: Gustav von Schlabrendorf and Henry Crabb Robinson" (PDF). Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture. Charles University, Faculty of Arts Press, Prague. pp. 47–59. ISSN 0862-8424. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
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