Adalbert von chamisso biographie

Adelbert von Chamisso

German poet and botanist (–)

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Adelbert von Chamisso

Born

Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot


()30 January

Ante, Champagne, Kingdom of France

Died21 August () (aged&#;57)

Berlin, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia

NationalityPrussian
Occupation(s)Poet and botanist
Known&#;forPeter Schlemihl, the man who sold his shadow, Views and Remarks on a Voyage of Discovery, Description of a Voyage Round the World, description of many trees of Mexico
SpouseAntonie Piaste
Parents
  • Louis Marie, Count of Chamisso (father)
  • Anne Marie Gargam (mother)
AwardsPrussian Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
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Adelbert von Chamisso (German pronunciation:[ˈaːdl̩bɛʁtfɔnʃaˈmɪso]; 30 January &#;&#; 21 August ) was a Germanpoet, writer and botanist. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Boncourt, a name referring to the family estate at Boncourt.

Life

The son of Louis Marie, Count of Chamisso, by his marriage to Anne Marie Gargam, Chamisso began life as Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family.[1] His name appears in several forms, one of the most common being Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso.[2]

In , the French Revolution drove his parents out of France with their seven children, and they went successively to Liège, the Hague, Würzburg, and Bayreuth, and possibly Hamburg, before settling in Berlin.

There, in , the young Chamisso was fortunate in obtaining the post of page-in-waiting to the queen of Prussia, and in he entered a Prussian infantry regiment as an ensign to train for a career as an army officer.[citation needed]

Shortly thereafter, thanks to the Peace of Tilsit, his family was able to return to France, but Chamisso remained in Prussia and continued his military career.

He had little formal education, although he is a noted alumnus of the French Highschool of Berlin (Französisches Gymnasium), that has existed since for the express purpose of accommodating the children of exiled French nobles. While in the Prussian military service in Berlin he assiduously studied natural science for three years. In collaboration with Varnhagen von Ense, in he founded the Berliner Musenalmanach, the publication in which his first verses appeared.

The enterprise was a failure, and, interrupted by the Napoleonic wars, it came to an end in It brought him, however, to the notice of many of the literary celebrities of the day and established his reputation as a rising poet.[1]

Chamisso had become a lieutenant in , and in he accompanied his regiment to Hamelin, where he shared in the humiliation of the town's capitulation the next year.

Placed on parole, he went to France, but both his parents were dead; returning to Berlin in the autumn of , he obtained his release from the Prussian service early the following year.

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Homeless and without a profession, disillusioned and despondent, Chamisso lived in Berlin until , when through the services of an old friend of the family he was offered a professorship at the lycée at Napoléonville in the Vendée.[1]

He set out to take up the post, but instead joined the circle of Madame de Staël, and followed her in her exile to Coppet in Switzerland, where, devoting himself to botanical research, he remained nearly two years.

In he returned to Berlin, where he continued his scientific studies. In the summer of the eventful year, , he wrote the prose narrative Peter Schlemihl, the man who sold his shadow. This, the most famous of all his works, has been translated into most European languages (English by William Howitt). It was written partly to divert his own thoughts and partly to amuse the children of his friend Julius Eduard Hitzig.[1]

In , Chamisso was appointed botanist to the Russian ship Rurik,[3] fitted out at the expense of Count Nikolay Rumyantsev, which Otto von Kotzebue (son of August von Kotzebue) commanded on a scientific voyage round the world.[1] He collected at the Cape of Good Hope in January in the company of Krebs, Mund and Maire.[4] His diary of the expedition (Tagebuch, ) is a fascinating account of the expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea.

During this trip Chamisso described a number of new species found in what is now the San Francisco Bay Area. Several of these, including the California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, were named after his friend Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, the Rurik's entomologist. In return, Eschscholtz named a variety of plants, including the genus Camissonia, after Chamisso.

On his return in he was made custodian of the botanical gardens in Berlin, and was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in he married his friend Hitzig's foster daughter Antonie Piaste (–).

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He became a leading member of the Serapion Brethren, a literary circle around E. T. A. Hoffmann.

In , partly for the purpose of rebutting the charges brought against him by Kotzebue, he published Views and Remarks on a Voyage of Discovery, and Description of a Voyage Round the World. Both works display great accuracy and industry.

His last scientific labor was a tract on the Hawaiian language. Chamisso's travels and scientific researches restrained for a while the full development of his poetical talent, and it was not until his forty-eighth year that he turned back to literature. In , in collaboration with Gustav Schwab, and from in conjunction with Franz von Gaudy, he brought out the Deutscher Musenalmanach, in which his later poems were mainly published.[1]

Chamisso died in Berlin at the age of His grave is preserved in the ProtestantFriedhof III (Cemetery No.

3 of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church and the New Church) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, to the south of the Hallesches Tor.

Chamisso collected numerous zoological and botanical specimens as well as occasional human bones.[5] His collections are in the care of a number of European museums.

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Botanical work

Chamisso is chiefly remembered for his work as a botanist; his most important contribution, done in conjunction with Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, was the description of many of the most important trees of Mexico in – Also, his Bemerkungen und Ansichten, published in an incomplete form in Kotzebue's Entdeckungsreise (Weimar, ) and more completely in Chamisso's Collected Works (), and the botanical work, Übersicht der nutzbarsten und schädlichsten Gewächse in Norddeutschland (Review of the Most Useful and the Most Noxious Plants of North Germany, with Remarks on Scientific Botany), of , are esteemed for their careful treatment of their subjects.[1] In he became a member of the Regensburg Botanical Society.[6]

The genera ChamissoaKunth (Amaranthaceae) and CamissoniaLink (Onagraceae) and many species were named in his honor.[7]

The standard author abbreviationCham.

is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]

Belles-lettres

Chamisso's earliest writings, which include a verse translation of the tragedy Le Comte de Comminge in which "heilsam" is used in place of "heilig", show a year-old still struggling to master his new language, and a number of his early poems are in French.

Between and he became closely associated with other writers and edited their journal.

As a poet Chamisso's reputation stands high. Frauenliebe und -leben (), a cycle of lyrical poems set to music by Robert Schumann, by Carl Loewe, and by Franz Paul Lachner, is particularly famous. Composers such as Pauline Volkstein also used Chamisso’s texts in their compositions.

Also noteworthy are Schloss Boncourt and Salas y Gomez. He often deals with gloomy or repulsive subjects; and even in his lighter and gayer productions there is an undertone of sadness or of satire.

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    • In the lyrical expression of the domestic emotions he displays a fine felicity, and he knew how to treat with true feeling a tale of love or vengeance. Die Löwenbraut may be taken as a sample of his weird and powerful simplicity; and Vergeltung is remarkable for a pitiless precision of treatment.

    The first collected edition of Chamisso's works was edited by Hitzig and published in six volumes in [1]

    Legacy

    Otto von Kotzebue named Chamisso Island after him.[9] Chamisso is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Chilean snake, Philodryas chamissonis.[10]

    Literary work

    He is the author of the famous story, Peter Schlemihl, about a man who sold his shadow and the poet of the short poem "Tragic Story" which tells about a wise monk without the knowledge of common sense who tries to change the direction of his pigtail.[11]

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    References

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    2. ^Rodolfo E.G. Pichi Sermolli. Authors of Scientific Names in Pteridophyta. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN&#;
    3. ^Daum, Andreas W. (). "German Naturalists in the Pacific around Entanglement, Autonomy, and a Transnational Culture of Expertise".

      In Berghoff, Hartmut (ed.). Explorations and Entanglements: Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I. Berghahn Books.

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    9. ^Matthias Glaubrecht, Nils Seethaler, Barbara Teßmann, & Katrin Koel-Abt, The potential of biohistory: Re-discovering Adelbert von Chamisso’s skull of an Aleut collected during the “Rurik” Expedition –, in: Alaska. Zoosystematics and Evolution 89 (2): –
    10. ^"History".

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    11. ^Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN&#;.
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    14. ^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + pp. ISBN&#; ("Chamisso", p. 51).
    15. ^Adelbert, von Chamisson; William, Makepeace Thackeray. "Tragic Story".

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