Friedrich Wilhelm Weber
Friedrich Wilhelm Weber (born December 25, 1813 in Alhausen , † April 5, 1894 in Nieheim ) was a German doctor, politician and poet. Until 1857 he used the pseudonym “B. Werder ".
Life
The son of a forester in Alhausen, today a district of Bad Driburg , born on Christmas Day 1813 and raised in the idyllic rural setting at the foot of the Egge Mountains, Weber passed his Abitur examination at the Theodorianum high school in Paderborn in 1833 . In 1834 he began his medical studies in Greifswald and Breslau (here he met Hoffmann von Fallersleben and Gustav Freytag ), which he completed in 1839 with a doctorate in medicine summa cum laude .
During his years of study in Greifswald, he joined the Corps Pomerania in 1835 and campaigned for a liberal way of life and the national unity of Germany. He wore the light blue-silver-light blue ribbon with pride. This commitment was not without consequences for the "senior" of Pomerania. In the course of the investigation into the Frankfurt assassination attempt , he had to answer to the Greifswald University Court. He was accused of joining a country team and becoming politically active. Pomerania later awarded him honorary membership.
After the medical state examination in Berlin in 1840, Weber worked as a doctor in Bad Driburg and as a well doctor in Bad Lippspringe after a few years of traveling all over Europe . He began his political career as a member of the Driburg Democratic Association in 1854 as a city councilor in the East Westphalian spa town. His basic democratic attitude earned him the nickname “the red weaver”. From 1862 to 1893 he represented the constituency Höxter / Warburg as a member of the Center Party in the Prussian state parliament .
In 1892 Weber became an honorary member of the Askania Catholic Student Union (now KStV Askania-Burgundia ) in the KV .
From 1867 to 1887 Friedrich Wilhelm Weber lived with his family (wife Anna, née Gipperich, daughter Elisabeth, son Friedrich Wilhelm, called Friedemann) at the moated castle Thienhausen near Steinheim and, after two major fire disasters, moved to the rural town of Nieheim in 1887 , where he spent the last years of his life and found his final resting place. There, weaver friends will find his legacy carved into his grave cross:
"And I've been sleeping under Friedhofslinden for a long time,
you should always keep that in mind
as my dearest legacy:
There is no salvation but to be found in the cross."
In addition to his professional and political activities, Weber devoted his entire life to poetry. Even as a high school student he wrote his first poems. He even attached little importance to his artistic work. His poems are only "sparks that spray the anvil when the urge to work is hot". He published his first poems until 1857 under the pseudonym “B. Werder ”(e.g. in: Armenia von Bachmann).
Friedrich Wilhelm Weber's first major literary works are the translations of poetic stories by Tennyson ( Enoch Arden , Aylmers Field and Maud ) and the Swede Esaias Tegnér ( Axel - Eine poetic storytelling ). At the age of 65 he entered the limelight in 1878 with his epic Dreizehnlinden . The appreciation that this work experiences in German-speaking countries can be seen in the sales figures. By 1922 Dreizehnlinden had been published in over 200 editions by Ferdinand Schöningh alone . More than 2 million copies have been sold to date. Weber advanced to become the most important poet in Westphalia as the “singer of thirteen linden trees”. The philosophical faculty of the University of Münster recognized Weber in 1880 with the award of an honorary doctorate. What delighted generations of readers and had a permanent place in the curricula of German-speaking schools up to the time of the Hitler dictatorship, however, after the Second World War, like Friedrich Wilhelm Weber himself, fell into oblivion outside of Westphalia - not least because of an enduring style of language . The great crowd of admirers has dwindled. Here has Dreizehnlinden a message that has so far lost none of its relevance: overcoming discord and violence through tolerance and charity. The story of Dreizehnlinden takes place in Nethegau in Westphalia in 822 and 823, the reign of Louis the Pious , son of Charlemagne. In 25 chants in four-part, rhyming troches, it tells the love story of the Saxon Elmar, who grew up in the pagan faith, raised to hate the invasive Franks and the Christian Hildegunde. Friedrich Wilhelm Weber chose the Corvey Abbey near Höxter on the Weser as the eponymous monastery . The core of the epic is Elmar's stay in the monastery, where the Saxon - deviously injured by the Franconian Gero - finds refuge. Beyond hatred and violence, he heals body, mind and spirit under the care of the aged abbot and the prior. The poet-doctor Weber impressively keeps an eye on the whole person as a body and soul unit: Swanahild, the Saxon seer, has the task of using her healing art to physically heal Elmar as a natural being in his ancestral surroundings, his homeland, the Christian monks but it is reserved to bring the spiritual and spiritual renewal on the way. In Dreizehnlinden, paganism and Christianity are combined in mutual tolerance and respect to create a work of lived Christian love.
In addition to a collection of poems reflecting Weber's life's work and some religious poems such as Mary's Flowers and The Lord's Prayer , his poetic story Goliath was published in 1892 . This work is essentially based on a true story told by his friend, painter Magnus Thulstrup Bagge . Two years after Weber's death, the posthumous poems Herbstblätter were published.
Works
- The Arminius spring at Lippspringe (1858)
- Translations of A. Tennyson's Enoch Arden and Aylmers Field (1869)
- Translation of Swedish songs and their singing styles and piano accompaniment (1872)
- Translation of A. Tennyson's Maud (1874)
- Translation of Esais Tegnérs Axel - A Poetic Tale (1876)
- Dreizehnlinden (1878)
- Collected Poems (1881)
- Marienblumen (1885), set to music by Carl Thiel
- The Lord's Prayer (1887)
- Goliath (1892)
- The Passion of Our Savior (1892)
- Autumn Leaves Postponed Poems (1896)
- Collected poems in 3 volumes (1922 - Ed .: Weber's children Elisabeth and FW Weber jun.)
- Herrgottsblumen (1932 - Ed .: Elisabeth Weber)
- Reading book. Compiled and with an afterword by Rüdiger Bernhardt (Nylands Kleine Westfälische Bibliothek 79). Bielefeld 2018.
Well-known poems
- Old stories
- The glove
- On the anvil
- When my brother died
- Uhland's death
- The best medal
- Salvation is in the cross
- Over the brook
- A lot of bread grows in the winter night
- Just dream
memory
The memory of Friedrich Wilhelm Weber is kept alive today by the Weber Society in the memorials in his birthplace in Bad Driburg-Alhausen and in the Weberhaus Nieheim (folk high school).
Weber memorials
- Friedrich Wilhelm Weber Museum in the birthplace and herb garden with a weaver bust
- Crossroads at the entrance to the village (FW Weber hiking trail)
- Street names in town: Dreizehnlindenweg, Weberplatz, Weberring
- Thirteen linden fountain on the town hall square
- Memorial plaque at the “Brauner Hirsch” hotel, Lange Strasse
- A weaver bust in the rose garden of the Count's spa gardens
- Memorial plaques on the Iburg
- Way cross in memory of Dr. Weber
- Weberhöhe
- Street names in the village: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Weber-Strasse - Based on figures from Dreizehnlinden : Elmarstrasse, Hildegundestrasse, Drudenweg, Widostrasse, Fulkostrasse, Eggiweg
- Memorial stone in Arminius Park
- Street name in town: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Weber-Platz
- Bronze relief on the parish church of St. Johannes Nepomuk ; the right church tower is dedicated to Weber
- Bökerhof Castle : fictional background for the Bodinkthorpe farm from Dreizehnlinden
- Gut Abbenburg: fictional background for the Habichtshof from Dreizehnlinden
- St. Johannes Nepomuk parish church : in the ten large church windows there are stanzas from thirteen linden trees, selected to match the depicted scenes
- Street names in the village: Dreizehnlindenstrasse, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Weber-Str., Elmarstrasse, Hildegundestr., Eschenburger Strasse, Eggiweg, Fulkstrasse, Drudestr.
- St. Johannes Nepomuk parish church : 2 of the 3 bells are named after the main characters from Dreizehnlinden: Elmar bell and Hildegunde bell
- Corvey Monastery , fictional background for Weber's main work Dreizehnlinden
- Weber room
- Thirteen linden cross next to the Abbey of Corvey Abbey
- Freilichtbühne Lohne , inscription at the entrance gate, a saying from the 17th song of Weber's epic Dreizehnlinden (but without citing the source): "First you belong to your god, to him first of all the homeland."
- Marienmünster Abbey , residence of in-laws Anton and Lisette Gipperich 1867–1877
- Weber Cross, opposite the abbey
- Weberhaus Nieheim, Weber's last residence from 1887–1894, today folk high school and literary memorial
- Hereditary burial place of the Weber family in the cemetery
- Memorial stone opposite the Weberhaus
- Thienhausen Castle , Weber's residence from 1867–1887, where he completed the epic Thirteen Linden trees in 1877
- Street name in town: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Weber-Straße
- Memorial plaque, in the courtyard of the Theodorianum
- Stand cross from 1887 in the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum
- Gravestone of Weber's mother next to the church, which was also Weber's baptistery on December 31, 1813
- Liaison house of the KDSt.V. Kaiserpfalz Aachen "Dreizehnlinden" on the Hexenberg
- Stadtwald, "Dreizehnlinden-Platz"
Furthermore, streets and squares in Höxter, Lügde, Lünen, Münster, Nieheim, Schwandorf and Warburg are named after Weber.
Honor roll at the Theodorianum High School, Paderborn
Memorial stone in Bad Lippspringe
Memorial stone at the Weberhaus in Nieheim
Weber quote in the entrance gate of the open-air theater in Lohne
literature
- Julius Schwering : Friedrich Wilhelm Weber - his life and works . Schöningh, Paderborn 1900.
- Irmgard Gehle: WEBER, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 32, Bautz, Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88309-615-5 , Sp. 1463-1476.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Weber: doctor-politician-poet. Edited by the Association of Friends of the Poet FW Weber e. V. on the occasion of the 100th year of death, Bonifatius, Paderborn 1994.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Wilhelm Weber in the catalog of the German National Library
- Friedrich Wilhelm Weber in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- Friedrich Wilhelm Weber Doctor-Politician-Poet, Ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm-Weber-Gesellschaft eV, 2nd expanded edition Paderborn 1996
- Weber, Friedrich Wilhelm ( Memento from April 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: W. Gödden / I. Nölle-Hornkamp (ed.): Authors of the Vormärz
- Works by Friedrich Wilhelm Weber in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Biography (English)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Weber Society eV
- The German history library - sayings and poems by FW-Weber
Individual evidence
- ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 93 , 150
- ↑ Another corps membership (Pomerania Berlin) is not noted in the Kösener corps lists.
- ^ Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 1st part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 2). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1991, ISBN 3-923621-55-8 , p. 105.
- ^ The glove in the Gutenberg-DE project
- ^ At the anvil in the Gutenberg-DE project
- ↑ When my brother died in the Gutenberg-DE project
- ^ Uhland's death in the Gutenberg-DE project
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Werder, B. (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor, politician and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1894 |
| Place of death | Never home |