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Ludwig von M hlenfels as Advocatus Schleiermacheri An addendum The editorial copy of the Allgemeine Zeitung has survived in the Cotta-Archive with the names of the contributors This has made it possible to identify belatedly the author of the apologia Another word about Schleiermacher in the Au erordentliche Beilage der Allgemeinen Zeitung Augsburg of April 2 1834 It was Ludwig Friedrich von M hlenfels 1793 1861 M hlenfels who led a rather varied life was related to Schleiermacher s wife Henriette and thus belonged to Schleiermacher s extended family 1 Member of L tzow s Freicorps On Schleiermacher s suggestion M hlenfels participated in the war of liberation against Napoleon as a volunteer with the Black Hunters in the end in the so-called Battle of the Nations at Leipzig He finished the study of law in 1816 and on probation joined the prosecutor s office in Cologne where the French legal code was still in force 2 Incarcerated as a demagogue under the investigating judge E T A Hoffmann M hlenfels became one of the formative figures in the early history of German fraternities and participated in the Wartburg Festival in October 1817 He was arrested in July 1819 by the authorities in Berlin charged with activities as a demagogue and incarcerated in Berlin on September 17 M hlenfels contested the jurisdiction of the authorities in Berlin and refused to testify The investigative judge was the writer and composer E T A Hoffmann who wanted to have M hlenfels released and who later used him as a literary figure in a satirical novel 3 Flight from Berlin Exile in Sweden On May 5 1821 M hlenfels succeeded in fleeing to Sweden where he made a meagerly living as a private tutor 4 Professor for German and Scandinavian Literature in London Return to Prussia In October 1827 M hlenfels reached London Supported by some German scholars he obtained the Chair for German and Scandinavian at the newly founded University College He taught there until 1831 and publishedseveral textbooks When he was acquitted by a court ruling in 1830 he returned to the Prussian public service in August 1831 and gradually built a solid career 5 The defender of Schleiermacher His apologia of Schleiermacher written in opposition to the obituary by Gutzkow is a masterpiece of literary and legal writing First publication Six letters between M hlenfels Henriette and Friedrich Schleiermacher and Georg Andreas Reimer

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Ludwig von Mühlenfels als Advocatus Schleiermacheri. Ein Nachtrag zu: Der unpfäffische Schleiermacher. Karl Gutzkow und ...

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