#Franz Grillparzer

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Wer seine Schranken kennt, der ist der Freie. Wer frei sich wähnt, ist seines Wahnes Knecht.

Anyone who knows their limits is free. Anyone who thinks they are free is the slave of their delusion.

Franz Grillparzer (1791 – 1872), Austrian writer and dramatist

[empirearchives]

Franz Grillparzer:

[lunamarish]

Se il mio tempo mi vuole avversare, io lo lascio fare tranquillamente: io vengo da altri tempi e in altri spero di andare.

Franz Grillparzer

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

*I can't edit polls, his name should have one more e and be Wellesley

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

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Franz Grillparzer

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[4libertylover]

"Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills." - Franz Grillparzer

[radical-revolution]

"It is the mind that makes man free or a slave.”

—Franz Grillparzer

[forsakendream]

Jealousy is a passion, seeking zealously what causes suffering.

Translation of a quote by austrian writer Franz Grillparzer.

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is laid to rest in Wahring Cemetery in Vienna. (Beethoven's remains would later be exhumed for scientific study in 1863, and then exhumed a second time and relocated to Vienna's Zentralfriedhof Cementary in 1888. He now lies in a grave adjacent to Franz Schubert's [1797 - 1828] final resting place.) Beethoven's funeral procession was attended by an estimated 10,000 people -- the largest public mourning turnout in Vienna's history up until that point. Schubert served as one the official torchbearers, and a funeral oration was written and delivered by noted poet Franz Grillparzer (1791 - 1872). Music composed by both Beethoven and his highly-esteemed contemporary, Luigi Cherubini (1760 - 1842), was performed. Grillparzer's oration can be read here: http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Bio/BiographyFuneralOration.html PICTURED: An original printed invitation to attend Beethoven's funeral, featuring text that was written by one of Beethoven's closest friends, Stephan von Breuning. It reads: "Invitation to the funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven, which will be held on March 29 at 3 pm. We will meet at the home of the deceased in Schwarzspanierhaus, 200, on the Glacis, opposite the Schottentor. The procession will move from here to the Dreifaltigkeitskirche [Trinity Church] at the Fr. P. Friars Minorite in the Alsergasse. [via Alser] The musical world suffered the irreparable loss of the famous composer on March 26, 1827 around 6 pm. Beethoven passed away in his fifty-sixth year of age, from dropsy, after receiving the holy sacraments. The day of the suffrage mass will be announced later by the admirers and friends of Ludwig van Beethoven. (This ticket is distributed in Tobias Haslinger's music store.) Printed by Anton Strauss." A mourner who actually witnessed the funeral has handwritten a contemporaneous account of what he saw on the back of this particular copy of the invitation.

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Suche selbst deine Fehler zu erkennen; denn die Wohlwollenden machen dich nicht darauf aufmerksam, um dir nicht wehe zu tun, die Feindseligen nicht, weil sie sich über diese Fehler freuen.

Try to recognize your own mistakes; for the benevolent do not tell you so as not to hurt you, the hostile don't because they rejoice in these mistakes.

Franz Grillparzer (1791 – 1872), Austrian writer

[empirearchives]

German and Austrian contemporaries of Napoleon (plus one by Émile Zola in his essay about Stendhal, a French contemporary):

Source: Beethoven, by Maynard Solomon

[gasthausnostalgie]

Old Vienna

Der Gundelhof

(1, Bauernmarkt 4, Brandstätte 5)

Der Gundelhof wurde nach der angesehenen Tiroler Familie der Gundlach (verballhornt in Gundel) benannt, welche 1495 in den Besitz des Hofs kam.

Zum ersten Mal wird hier 1351 ein Haus erwähnt, das dem Bürgermeister Berthold Poll gehörte und in dem sich eine dem heiligen Thomas geweihte Kapelle befand. 1422 wurde es mitsamt der Kapelle vom Stadtanwalt Hans Zink verkauft, wobei hier vom Haus, "das weilent drei Häuser gewesen sind", die Rede ist. In den Jahren 1434 bis 1461 gehörte es Peter (Lorenz?) Strasser. Die häufige Annahme, dass die Thomaskapelle erst von ihm errichtet worden sei, ist falsch, da sie bereits 1343 erwähnt wird. Es ist aber möglich, dass die Kapelle um 1450 erneuert wurde.

1607 erwarb der Bürgermeister Augustin Haffner den Gundelhof, ließ die bereits verfallene Thomaskapelle wiederherstellen und gründete eine Messstiftung. Danach wurden hier wieder heilige Messen gelesen. Über seine Gattin Barbara kam 1617 der Bürgermeister Paul Wiedemann in den Besitz des Hauses. Er ließ die Ausstattung der Kapelle erweitern und vergrößerte die Messstiftung. Am 16. Juli 1696 kaufte Bartholomäus Tinti den Hof, dessen in den Freiherrenstand erhobene Familie ihn über 100 Jahre lang besaß.

1800 hatte Erzherzog Ferdinand d'Este, der Bruder Kaiser Josephs II., den Gundelhof erworben und vererbte ihn seinem Sohn, Erzherog Franz, Freiherr von Modena. Am 20. April 1810 verkaufte dieser den Gundelhof an den Juwelier Bruno Neuling, der ihn seinem Sohn Vinzenz vererbte. Salomon Mayer Rothschild wurde am 31. August 1843 Besitzer des Hauses. Noch ein Jahr vor seinem Tod im Jahr 1855 ließ er einen Zubau errichten.

1802 wurde die erste Wiener Börse vom Haus "Zum grünen Fassel" (1, Kohlmarkt 8-10) vorübergehend hierher verlegt.

Im Vormärz befand sich hier der bekannte Sonnleithnersche Salon, der größte musikalische Salon seiner Zeit, der vor allem von Franz Schubert und seinem Freundeskreis, aber auch von Franz Grillparzer und Karoline Pichler besucht wurde.

Hier wurde bis zur Demolierung der Häuser der Gänsemarkt abgehalten (ursprünglich stand auch der Gänsemädchenbrunnen hier).Im Hof des Gebäudes standen Verkaufsbuden. Der Gundelhof schloss die Brandstätte zum Bauernmarkt hin ab, sodass diese nur durch den Hof oder durch zwei Schwibbogen vom Stephansfreithof aus betreten werden konnte.

Der Komplex beherbergte auch zwei bekannte Gasthäuser, den "Goldenen Stern" und die "Eiche" (in welcher Beethoven oft anzutreffen war).

1877 ließ die Stadtbaugesellschaft den Gundelhof, den sie 1873 erworben hatte, demolieren und durch ein modernes Miethaus ersetzen, das im April 1945 ausbrannte und 1949 neu aufgebaut wurde.

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

Friends, enemies, comrades, Jacobins, Monarchist, Bonapartists, gather round. We have an important announcement:

The continent is beset with war. A tenacious general from Corsica has ignited conflict from Madrid to Moscow and made ancient dynasties tremble. Depending on your particular political leanings, this is either the triumph of a great man out of the chaos of The Terror, a betrayal of the values of the French Revolution, or the rule of the greatest upstart tyrant since Caesar.

But, our grand tournament is here to ask the most important question: Now that the flower of European nobility is arrayed on the battlefield in the sexiest uniforms that European history has yet produced (or indeed, may ever produce), who is the most fuckable?

The bracket is here: full bracket and just quadrant I

Want to nominate someone from the Western Hemisphere who was involved in the ever so sexy dismantling of the Spanish empire? (or the Portuguese or French American colonies as well) You can do it here

The People have created this list of nominees:

France:

Jean Lannes

Josephine de Beauharnais

Thérésa Tallien

Jean-Andoche Junot

Joseph Fouché

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Joachim Murat

Michel Ney

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (Charles XIV of Sweden)

Louis-Francois Lejeune

Pierre Jacques Étienne Cambrinne

Napoleon I

Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet

Jacques de Trobriand

Jean de dieu soult.

François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann

17.Louis Davout

Pauline Bonaparte, Duchess of Guastalla

Eugène de Beauharnais

Jean-Baptiste Bessières

Antoine-Jean Gros

Jérôme Bonaparte

Andrea Masséna

Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle

Germaine de Staël

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

René de Traviere (The Purple Mask)

Claude Victor Perrin

Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

François Joseph Lefebvre

Major Andre Cotard (Hornblower Series)

Edouard Mortier

Hippolyte Charles

Nicolas Charles Oudinot

Emmanuel de Grouchy

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

Géraud Duroc

Georges Pontmercy (Les Mis)

Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont

Juliette Récamier

Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey

Louis-Alexandre Berthier

Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

Catherine Dominique de Pérignon

Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan

Charles-Pierre Augereau

Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais

England:

Richard Sharpe (The Sharpe Series)

Tom Pullings (Master and Commander)

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Jonathan Strange (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)

Captain Jack Aubrey (Aubrey/Maturin books)

Horatio Hornblower (the Hornblower Books)

William Laurence (The Temeraire Series)

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey

Beau Brummell

Emma, Lady Hamilton

Benjamin Bathurst

Horatio Nelson

Admiral Edward Pellew

Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke

Sidney Smith

Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford

George IV

Capt. Anthony Trumbull (The Pride and the Passion)

Barbara Childe (An Infamous Army)

Doctor Maturin (Aubrey/Maturin books)

William Pitt the Younger

Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (Lord Castlereagh)

George Canning

Scotland:

Thomas Cochrane

Colquhoun Grant

Ireland:

Arthur O'Connor

Thomas Russell

Robert Emmet

Austria:

Klemens von Metternich

Friedrich Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza

Franz I/II

Archduke Karl

Marie Louise

Franz Grillparzer

Wilhelmine von Biron

Poland:

Wincenty Krasiński

Józef Antoni Poniatowski

Józef Zajączek

Maria Walewska

Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski

Antoni Amilkar Kosiński

Zofia Czartoryska-Zamoyska

Stanislaw Kurcyusz

Russia:

Alexander I Pavlovich

Alexander Andreevich Durov

Prince Andrei (War and Peace)

Pyotr Bagration

Mikhail Miloradovich

Levin August von Bennigsen

Pavel Stroganov

Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna

Karl Wilhelm von Toll

Dmitri Kuruta

Alexander Alexeevich Tuchkov

Barclay de Tolly

Fyodor Grigorevich Gogel

Ekaterina Pavlovna Bagration

Ippolit Kuragin (War and Peace)

Prussia:

Louise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Gebard von Blücher

Carl von Clausewitz

Frederick William III

Gerhard von Scharnhorst

Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

Friederike of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Alexander von Humboldt

Dorothea von Biron

The Netherlands:

Ida St Elme

Wiliam, Prince of Orange

The Papal States:

Pius VII

Portugal:

João Severiano Maciel da Costa

Spain:

Juan Martín Díez

José de Palafox

Inês Bilbatua (Goya's Ghosts)

Haiti:

Alexandre Pétion

Sardinia:

Vittorio Emanuele I

Lombardy:

Alessandro Manzoni

Denmark:

Frederik VI

Sweden:

Gustav IV Adolph

[reinato]

Devocional diário Vislumbres da Eternidade

Reconheça e confie

Então o homem disse: “A mulher que me deste para estar comigo, ela me deu da árvore, e eu comi.” Gênesis 3:12

O relato de Adão em Gênesis 3 é tristemente parecido com nossa realidade. Não é só porque ali estão descritos quais seriam os efeitos do pecado neste mundo, mas porque Adão tem uma reação muito peculiar: ele coloca a culpa da sua conduta nos outros. Se lermos detalhadamente a justificativa, ficamos com a impressão de que ele transfere a culpa do que ocorreu para o próprio Deus. A técnica de Adão era “transferir e ignorar”.

Essa é uma reação frequente nas pessoas que fizeram algo errado e não se sentem verdadeiramente arrependidas. Dar desculpas ou culpar os outros, além de infantil e covarde, é também uma atitude que não ajuda a resolver o problema. Por quê? Porque, ao transferir a culpa, não se consegue reconhecer onde está o problema nem como enfrentá-lo. Imagine que seu pé esteja doendo muito, mas que toda hora você insiste que o problema está no seu tipo de penteado. Por mais que você vá ao salão para dar formas diferentes ao seu cabelo ou para cortá-lo, a dor do seu pé não vai desaparecer. Franz Grillparzer, um dramaturgo austríaco, afirmou acertadamente: “Existe um remédio para as culpas: reconhecê-las.”

Reconhecer nosso erro é um passo imprescindível para alcançar a solução. Não somente nos recoloca no caminho da verdade, como também nos tira da infância espiritual, aquela em que se vive na fantasia e na cegueira. Depois de reconhecer a culpa, não fique com ela. Passe-a para Jesus. Como diz 1ª João 1:9, “se confessarmos os nossos pecados, Ele é fiel e justo para nos perdoar os pecados e nos purificar de toda injustiça”. A técnica de Jesus é “reconhecer e confiar”. Reconhecer a culpa e confiar sua vida ao Senhor.

Faça a você mesmo as seguintes perguntas: Faço algo de errado? Jogo a culpa nos outros? Que culpa me atrevo a reconhecer? Sigo a técnica de Adão ou a de Jesus? Pergunte-se essas coisas com as palavras de 1 João 4:10 ao fundo: “Nisto consiste o amor: não em que nós tenhamos amado a Deus, mas em que Ele nos amou e enviou o Seu Filho como propiciação pelos nossos pecados.” Deus continuará amando-o, não importa o que você fizer. Você já sabe: reconheça, confie e, com a ajuda de Cristo, mude!

[4libertylover]

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

Franz Grillparzer

[deathbypixelz]

I'm using images off the internet because my own photos where terrible (couldn't get close enough because there was a fence), but when I was in Vienna at the start of the month I stumbled upon this Sappho carving as part of a larger monument to Austrian writer Franz Grillparzer. The reliefs were done by Rudolf Weyr.

Besides being overjoyed at accidentally discovering this because I had no idea it was there, I just love it to bits. The way Sappho and the other woman are posed is doing things to me. And the dude in the back on his knees is extremely funny. Give up bro she's not coming back. In isolation, it paints a very fun picture of Sappho being an absolute stud who gets all the ladies which I am here for.

Well, okay, here's one of my own pictures. I had my binoculars because I was birding so this is taken through those with my shitty iPhone camera.