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Karl Christian Ernst von Bentzel-Sternau
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'''Karl Christian Ernst Graf von Bentzel-Sternau''', pseud. ''Horatio Cocles'', (9 April 1767 – 13 August 1849) was a German statesman, editor and writer.
== Life ==
Bentzel-Sternau was born in [[Mainz]]. After jurisprudential studies, in 1791 Bentzel-Sternau became government counsellor of the [[Electorate of Mainz]] under [[Karl Theodor von Dalberg]] in [[Erfurt]]. In 1803 he was State councillor of the Kur-Erzkanzler in [[Regensburg]] and in 1804 Secret State councillor. In 1806 he entered the [[Baden]] services, became ministerial director in 1808 and president of the upper court in 1810 in [[Mannheim]].
Dalberg, now Grand Duke of Frankfurt appointed by [[Napoleon]], appointed him Minister of State and Finance in 1811. He was also responsible, among other things, for [[Jewish emancipation]] and its bourgeois equality.
After the [[Grand Duchy of Frankfurt]] had been occupied by the German powers allied against Napoleon in the autumn of 1813 - it was not dissolved until the summer of 1814 - Bentzel-Sternau withdrew into private life. He lived alternately on [[Schloss Emmerichshofen]] and his country estate on Lake Zurich. In the following years he worked as an editor and writer.
He again proved his liberal and committed attitude as a delegate of the [[Chamber of Deputies (Bavaria)| Bavarian Chamber of Estates]] in the years 1825 to 1828. In 1832 he sympathized with the participants of the [[Hambach Festival]] and sent them a letter to express his support.<ref name="books-TnhTAAAAMAAJ-27">[[Johann Georg August Wirth|Johann G. A. Wirth]]: ''Das Nationalfest der Deutschen zu Hambach.'' Heft 1. Christmann, Neustadt a/H. 1832, ().</ref>
In 1827 he converted from Catholicism to [[Protestant|evangelical]] [[faith]].
Bentzel-Sternau died in Mariahalden/[[Zürichsee]], Switzerland, at age 82.
== Work ==
Bentzel-Sternau is known to posterity above all as the editor of the magazine 'Jason' and as a novelist. In 1831 he founded the short-lived magazine ''Der Verfassungsfreund'', a newspaper of the Landtag for Germany.''<ref>Ewald Grothe: ''Verfassungsgebung und Verfassungskonflikt. Das Kurfürstentum Hessen in der ersten Ära Hassenpflug 1830–1837''. , Berlin 1996, .</ref>
He became famous for his work "Anti-Israel-Rede" (1818), a projective [[satire]] which made him particularly hated by nationalist forces. During the [[Wartburg Festival]] his works were symbolically burned with other [[book burning at the Wartburgfest 1817|books]].
This satire is a rare source for exploring the relationship between Jews and Christians in the 19th century. It is preserved today in only a small number of originals.<ref>Horatius Cocles: ''Anti-Israel. Eine Vorlesung in der geheimen Akademie zum grünen Esel als Entrittsrede gehalten.'' Sauerländer, Aarau 1818, [https://ift.tt/2XCwvYs Digitalisat], (Reprint: ''Anti-Israel. Eine projüdische Satire aus dem Jahre 1818. Nebst den antijüdischen Traktaten Friedrich Rühs' und Jakob Friedrich Fries' (1816)'' (''Exempla philosemitica.'' Vol. 4). Published with an epilogue by [[Johann Anselm Steiger]]. Manutius, Heidelberg 2004, ).</ref> His best-known work is probably the prose text "Das goldene Kalb. A Biography".
In this satire, Bentzel takes up the arguments and demands of the literary Jew hunt, which had found fertile ground after the [[Congress of Vienna]], and takes them to absurdity by exaggerating them.
Visionary, the author predicts a development that was soon caught up in the horrors of the anti-Jewish [[Hep-Hep riots]] in Germany. Bentzel was apparently aware of the pronounced anti-Jewish dynamics and the great potential for violence that had accumulated against the Jews in the period after the Congress of Vienna - spurred on by inflammatory writings and pamphlets published in many places. Exemplary here are the inflammatory writings of [[Friedrich Rühs]] and [[Jakob Friedrich Fries]].<ref>Also printed in the 2004 reprint by Manutius-Verlag.</ref>
In his literary publications he shows himself to be an "ingenious, outspoken and intelligent humorous writer" (Meyer 1858), often compared with [[Jean Paul]].
== Pseudonym ==
The pseudonym chosen by Bentzel-Sternau refers to [[Horatius Cocles]] (cocles: Latin for "one-eyed man"), who was a folk hero of Roman mythology. In 507 B.C. he is said to have defended the bridge over the [[Tiber]] to Rome alone against the Etruscans.
== Quotes ==
"The mixture, called man, is probably the greatest ragout that ever escaped a heavenly cookbook."<ref></ref>
== Source ==
* ''Der Verfassungsfreund, ein Landtagsblatt für Deutschland.'' Hanau 1831.
== Further reading ==
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* Ewald Grothe: ''Verfassungsgebung und Verfassungskonflikt. Das Kurfürstentum Hessen in der ersten Ära Hassenpflug 1830–1837''. (''Schriften zur Verfassungsgeschichte.'' 48). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996, .
== External links ==
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* [https://ift.tt/2QExS7s Vorab-Hinweis] auf die Publikation im Manutius-Verlag
== References ==
[[Category:German editors]]
[[Category:19th-century German journalists]]
[[Category:Biedermeier writers]]
[[Category:German emigrants]]
[[Category:1767 births]]
[[Category:1849 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Mainz]]
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