Eduard Schure ( fr. Édouard Schuré ; January 21, 1841 in Strasbourg - April 7, 1929 , Paris ) - French writer from Alsace , philosopher and musicologist, author of novels, plays, historical, poetic and philosophical works. He is known primarily due to his work “The Great Initiates” ( French Les Grands Initiés ), which has been translated into many languages, including Russian (1914) [1] .
| Edward Schure | |
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| fr. Edouard schure | |
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| Date of Birth | January 21, 1841 |
| Place of Birth | Strasbourg |
| Date of death | April 7, 1929 (88 years old) |
| Place of death | Paris |
| Citizenship |  France |
| Occupation | writer philosopher musicologist |
| Language of Works | French |
Biography
Eduard Schure was born on January 21 in Strasbourg , in a Protestant family. After the death of his parents, he was brought up in the family of a history teacher at the gymnasium of Jean Sturm until the age of twenty. Then, Edward entered law school to please his maternal grandfather, who was the dean, but this discipline began to seem boring to him; He spends most of his free time at the Faculty of Arts, where he is sympathetic to young people who are interested in literature and art. Among them is his friend, musician Viktor Nessler , whose sister, Matilda, he married, as well as historian Rudolf Reiss. Simultaneously with the completion of the study of law, Edward decided to devote himself to poetry. After receiving a law degree, he studied philosophy. After the death of his grandfather, Eduard Schure inherited enough to live off the rent of his property and do whatever he pleased. Soon, he abandoned legal activity, completely leaving for literary work.
Margaret Albani Mignaty ( fr. Margaret Albana Mignaty ; 1831–1887), whose most famous work is today called The Great Initiates, who was the adopted daughter of Sir Frederick Adam and is famous for her international salon in Florence in the years 1860-1887 [2] ; as well as composer Richard Wagner and philosopher Rudolf Steiner .
Creativity
His early work, Histoire du Lied (1868), introduced French readers to a range of new German poetry.
He wrote several novels (“L'ange et la Sphinge”, 1897; “Le double”, 1899), the poetic collection “La vie mystique” (1893), a number of compositions related to music and its representatives: “Le drame musical. Richard Wagner, son oeuvre et son idée "(1895)," Histoire du drame musical "," Souvenirs sur Richard Wagner "(1900).
The original character is his composition, which touches on the history of religions - “Les grands initiés” (1889; Krishna , Hermes , Orpheus , Pythagoras , etc.). Alsatian, Breton and other legends is dedicated to his book Les grandes légendes de France (1921).
Schüre’s plays under the general title Théâtre de l'âme, (Les enfants de Lucifer, 1900; La soeur Gardienne, 1900; and others) were published in 1900-1902. Sufficiently low-scenic, but imbued with a philosophical spirit and very peculiar in form, according to Schure, should be examples of a new repertoire, “theater of the future”, which, as he proves in his introduction, will fall into three sections: 1 / purely national theater, public; 2 / theater of battle, tendentious, civil; 3 / theater of dreams or souls, bearing an ideal, universal and philosophical coloring. Schüre’s plays in sympathetic critical reviews were compared to the dramas of Meterlink and Annunzio .
Notes
- ↑ Shure E. The Great Initiates. An Essay on the Esotericism of Religions - Kaluga: Printing House of the Provincial Zemsky Council, 1914.
- ↑ BPF
Literature
List of works
- Great Initiates: Essay on the Esotericism of Religions = Les Grands Initiés. - 2nd ed. - Kaluga: Type. Lip. Zemsky Council, 1914 .-- 421 p.
Bibliography
- Schure, Edward // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.