Schubart, Christian Friedrich Daniel |
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BORN 26 Mar 1739, Obersontheim, Schwaben - DIED 10 Oct 1791, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg GRAVE LOCATION Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg: Hoppenlau-friedhof, Rosenbergstrasse 7 (Abt. 1a / 13) |
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Christian Schubert entered Erlangen university in 1758 to study Theology. He left university after two years and worked as a private tutor and as an assistant preacher, before he became organist in Geislingen and Ludwigsburg. He was expelled from Baden-Württemberg for blasphemy and moved to Augsburg, where he started "Deutsche Chronik" (1774-1778). After he attacked the Jesuits he was forced to leave Augsburg and went to Ulm. After he insulted Carl Eugen's mistress Franziska von Hohenheim, he was lured to Blaubeuren in 1777 so that he could be arrested on Württemberg ground. In the presence of the duke and Franziska he was taken to the fortress of Hohenasperg. There he was imprisoned without permission to receive visitors. During the first years he also wa not alloweed to read or write. He was celebrated as a martyr for freedom by Johann Gottfried Herder and others. After Frederick the Great interfered in 1787, duke Carl Eugen finally released him. Surprisingly, he was appointed musical director and manager of the theatre in Stuttgart. Before he was able to complete his autobiography, he died in 1791 in Stuttgart. At the time there were rmours that he had been buried alive at the Hoppenlau cemetery in Stuttgart. |
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 The grave of Christian Schubart at the Hoppenlau Friedhof, Stuttgart. Picture by Androom (31 Jan 2007) |
