- Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser
Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser (
30 December ,1780 inFrankfort-on-the-Main –22 January 1851 inFrankfort-on-the-Main ) was a German jurist, writer and translator.Life
He studied
jurisprudence at various universities, among others at Jena, where he entered into familiar relations withSchiller andGoethe . After receiving the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence (1803), he settled at Frankfort as an advocate, later being appointed, by PrimatePrince Dalberg , counsel of the municipal court (1806), counselor for the high schools and studies, and director of the grand-ducal lyceum (1812). On the dissolution of theGrand duchy of Frankfort , Schlosser resigned his office, and in 1814 entered the Catholic Church with his wife Sophie (née Du Fay).He was one of the representatives of his native city at the
Congress of Vienna . He was later one of the most determined champions of the rights of the Catholic community in Frankfort, and successfully advocated the civil equality of every Christian denomination. Soon, however, he withdrew from public life, and after 1825 usually spent the winter in Frankfort, passing the summer at his country seat,Neuburg nearHeidelberg . As he was charitable, hospitable, and free from all denominational narrowness, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to scientific undertakings (e.g. the "Monumenta Germaniae ") besides possessing a fine artistic sense, his home soon became a centre for the leading spirits in literature, art, and science.With Goethe he remained ever on terms of familiarity, and was his zealous collaborator in the romance "Aus meinem Leben". On the death of the great writer, Schlosser began a "Goethe Collection", which later passed to the ecclesiastical seminary at Mainz.
Works
He wrote: "Die morgenlandische orthodoxe Kirche Russlands" (Heidelberg, 1845); "Die Kirche in ihren Liedern durch alle Jahrhunderte" (2 vols., Freiburg, 1851; 2nd ed., 1863). After his death his wife published from his papers four booklets (1856-9), and Frese published "Goethe-Briefe aus Schlossers Nachlass" (Stuttgart, 1877).
Reference
*Allgem. deutsche Biogr., xxxi (Leipzig, 1890), 541 sq.
External links
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13545b.htm "Catholic Encyclopedia" article]
*de icon [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/s/s1/schlosser_j_f_h.shtml BBK page]
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