bavarikon4UThe estate of Hermann von Lingg (1820–1905) – Linggiana
The poet Hermann von Lingg (1820–1905) from Lindau studied medicine in Munich, Freiburg, Berlin and Prague. In 1843, he received his doctorate in medical history. After his assistantship, Lingg worked as a military doctor in the Bavarian army in Augsburg, Straubing and Passau from 1846.
In 1847, Lingg spent some time in Rome and Naples. This stay encouraged his poetic production. During the course of the Revolution in Baden of 1848/49, Lingg experienced an internal conflict, since he sympathised with the insurgents, while being obliged to adopt a conservative attitude in his position as a member of the military. Subsequently, Lingg suffered a breakdown, developed delusions, fled the regiment and in 1849/50 was admitted to a mental hospital for a long period.
After his dismissal in 1850, Lingg settled in Munich, where he dedicated himself to studies of history and poetry under the financial sponsorship of King Max II. (1811-1864) In Munich, he made the acquaintance of the writer Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884), who not only helped Lingg to achieve his first reputation by publishing his poems, but also introduced him to the "Krokodile" (Crocodiles), a circle of poets from Munich, which existed between 1856 and 1883 and had dedicated itself to classicist-idealistic poetry. Lingg penned the piece "Das Krokodil von Singapur" (The Crocodile of Singapore) and the name of the association goes back to this poem.
The estate consists of 17 small and three large boxes as well as two volumes. In addition to Linggs literary manuscripts, including "Der schwarze Tod" (The Black Death), "Bauernkrieg" (The Peasants' War), "Spartakus" (Spartacus) and "Die Säule" (The Column), the collection also contains personal diaries from 1851 to 1900 and his father’s diaries from 1799 to 1803, as well as letters to Hermann Lingg.
Parts of the estate have been digitised for bavarikon and are available here:
>> This estate belongs to the collection of estates from the holdings of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library).