Abraham Emanuel Merry

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Illustration by Martin Disteli of the trend fable Der Sumpfreigen by Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich

Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich (born February 1, 1796 in Brugg , Canton Aargau , † December 1, 1865 in Gibstorf ) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and writer .

Life

Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich was a son of the teacher Emanuel Fröhlich and his wife Anna Rosina geb. Märki. The composer Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich was his brother. After his father's first schooling, Fröhlich attended the Collegium Humanitatis in Zurich from 1811 . He later moved to the Collegium Carolinum in Zurich.

There Fröhlich was ordained an Evangelical Reformed pastor in May 1817 and as such he took up a position as a Latin teacher in Brugg in May of the same year. His job as parish vicar in Mönthal also provided for his livelihood . Together with Jeremias Gotthelf , Fröhlich was one of the first members of the Zofingen Association of Swiss Students , which later became Zofingia, founded in 1819 .

On January 21, 1820 he married Elisabeth Frey. In the same year he made friends with the German poet Wolfgang Menzel , who had just fled to Switzerland and lived in Aarau until 1824 . Because of his liberal outlook, Fröhlich was passed over when he was elected city pastor in Brugg in 1823. Out of anger and disappointment, his satires and fables emerged , which he published under the pseudonym Democritus painful .

Influenced by August Ludwig Follen , Fröhlich became his successor in 1827 as a teacher of German language and literature at the canton school in Aarau. As a writer and teacher he worked with Johann Jakob Reinhart and Karl Rudolf Hagenbach , among others .

Disputes about new school regulations led to the dismissal of Fröhlich in 1835. But in November of the same year he was appointed rector of the newly founded Aarau District School. Since this position was very low endowed, he also applied for the pastor's position on the Kirchberg in Küttigen . His application was accepted on February 1, 1836, but the cantonal government refused to confirm the election. From 1839 Fröhlich also taught German at the Aarau daughter institute .

At the age of 69, Pastor Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich died of a stroke on December 1, 1865 in Gibstorf near Baden . On December 4th, he was buried in his native Brugg.

Works

  • True Faith (poem, 1825) ( digitized )
  • Fables (1825)
  • A Hundred New Fables (1825)
  • Swiss songs (1827)
  • Alpine roses (Almanac, 1831–1854)
  • Niklaus von der Flüh (poem, 1830)
  • The Children's Ball (story, 1833) ( digitized version )
  • Ulrich Zwingli (chants, 1840)
  • The young Deutsch-Michel (1843)
  • Ulrich von Hutten (chants, 1845)
  • The burial in Hauenstein (story, 1858) ( digitized version )

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich  - Sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Happy Abraham Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Reformed theologian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Brugg
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1865
Place of death Gibstorf