Ct von Auersperg Anton A. *Anastasius Gruen* Born: 11 APR 1806 Laibach (Ljubljana), SLOVENIA Sex: M Died: 12 SEP 1876 Graz, AUSTRIA Occupation: Lyriker, Epiker and Translator
Relationship: 17. cousin 8 times removed, etc
Ancestors:
Child: Ct von Auersperg Anton A. *Anastasius Gruen*
Mother:
Marriage(s) and Relationships: Married to: Maria Rosalia von Attems 10 JUL 1839
Child:Count von Auersperg TheodorNotes: Alex = Alexander.
Source: Leo van de Pas, Charles Wardell.
Grün, Anastasius (eigentl. Anton Alexander Gf. v. Auersperg), * 11. 4.
1806 Laibach (Ljubljana,
SLO), † 12. 9. 1876 Graz, Lyriker, Epiker und Übersetzer. Dem jurist.
Studium in Wien und Graz
folgten Reisen nach Italien, Deutschland (wo er mit Autoren der
"Schwäbischen Schule", insbes. mit
L. Uhland bekannt wurde), Frankreich und England; 1848/49 Mitgl. des
Frankfurter Parlaments;
1861-76 Mitgl. des Herrenhauses; Freund von N. Lenau, dessen Nachlaß
(1851) und "Sämtliche
Werke" (1855) er herausgab. G. kritisierte in seinen von liberalem
Gedankengut erfüllten Werken, v. a.
in den Gedichtbänden "Spaziergänge eines Wr. Poeten" (1831) und "Schutt"
(1835), das System
Metternich und den Klerikalismus.
Werke: Romanzen: Balladen der Liebe, 1830; Der letzte Ritter, 1830;
Gedichte, 1837. Satirische Verserzählungen: Die
Nibelungen im Frack, 1843; Der Pfaff vom Kahlenberg, 1850. Übersetzungen
slowen. und engl. Werke. - Ausg.: Sämtliche
Werke, hg. v. E. Castle, 6 Bde., 1909; Polit. Reden und Schriften, hg. v.
S. Hock, 1906; Zeit ist eine stumme Harfe, eingel.
und ausgew. v. U. Baumgarten, 1958.
Literatur: A. Schlossar, A. G. Sein Leben und Schaffen, 1907; F. Riedl,
A. G., 1909; R. Wächter, A. G. polit. Dichtung, 1933;
F. Sengle, Biedermeierzeit, Bd. 3, 1972; R. Wiedner, A. G. Gedicht-Smlg.
"Schutt", Dipl.-Arb., Innsbruck 1988.
Source: Österreich-Lexikon.
Anastasius Grün:
A pseudonym for Anton Alexander (Maria), Count von Auersperg, an Austrian
poet; b. at Laibach in 1806. d. at Graz in 1876. He received his earliest
training at the Theresian academy, at Vienna, and later studied
philosophy and jurisprudence at Vienna and Graz. From 1831 on he was
occupied with the care of his paternal estates at Thurn. Repeatedly he
undertook journeys through Italy, France, and England, until he married a
Countess in 1839. Henceforth he divided his time between his estates and
Vienna. In the meantime his poems had made him famous as a charnpion of
liberalism, and he had entered the political field. In 1848 he was
elected a member of the National Assembly
at Frankfort. Disappointed in his expectations, he withdrew and retired
to private life, from whence he did not emerge until 1830, when Austria
had become a constitutional State. He was appointed a life member of the
Austrian Reichsrat serving at the same time first as a member of the
Carniolan and then of the Styrian diet.
His first collection of lyric poems, "Blaetter der Liebe", appeared in
1830. This was followed by a romantic cycle, "Der letzte Ritter"
(Stuttgart, 1830), in praise of Emperor Maximilian I. But fame came to
from through his political poems, the first collection of which appeared
anonymously in 1831 under the title of "Spaziergange eines Wiener
Poeten". It was a severe arraignment of the oppressive conditions
prevailing under the regime of Metternich, and created a sensation among
all classes. The next collection,
"Schutt" ("Ruins"--1835), was also political in tendency. Neither this
nor the preceding collection has won enduring fame. This Grün owes rather
to some of his lyrics like "Das Blatt im Buche" and "Der letzte Dichter",
which appeared in "Gedichte" (Leipzig, 1837). His two humorous poems,
"Nibelungen im Frack" (1843) and "Der Pfaff vom Kahlenberg" (1850) were
never really popular. Other works of Grün are the "Volkslieder aus Krain"
(Leipzig, 1850), a collection of Slovenic folk-songs, and "Robin Hood"
(Stuttgart, 1864), a free rendering of old English ballads. His complete
works were edited by L. A. Frankl (Berlin, 1877, 5 vols.), new edition by
Anton Schlossar (Leipzig).
VON RADICS, A. Grün und seine Heimath (Stuttgart, 1876); IDEM, A. Grün,
Verschollenes und Vergilbtes aus dessen Leben und Wirken (Leipzig, 1878);
SCHATZMAYER, Anton Graf von Auereperg, sein Leben und Dichten (2. ed,
Frankfort, 1872); SCHONBACH, Anastasius Grün in Gesammete Aufsatze zur
neueren Litteratur in Deutechland, Oesterreich, Amerika (Graz, 1900), pp.
174-185.
ARTHUR F.J. REMY.
Transcribed by Joseph P. Thomas.
Source: The Catholic Encyclopedia
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