Adolf Bacmeister (Germanist)

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Adolf Bacmeister

Lukas Adolf Bacmeister , also: Adolf Lucas Bacmeister , Lucas Adolf Bacmeister - pseudonyms: Theobald Bernhoff , Theobald Lernoff - (born July 9, 1827 in Esslingen am Neckar ; † February 25, 1873 in Stuttgart ) was a German philologist , journalist, and philologist Writer .

Live and act

Bacmeister was the son of the foundation administrator in Esslingen am Neckar Lucas Christian Gottlieb Bacmeister (1786–1850) and Friedrike Dorothea Henriette Kern (1796–1851). He came from the sixth generation of the Chamber Procurator Heinrich Bacmeister , who founded the Württemberg line of the respected Bacmeister family of lawyers and theologians . At the age of 14, Bacmeister entered the Evangelical Seminary in Blaubeuren after passing the state examination and stayed there for four years. In 1845 Bacmeister moved to the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen to study first theology and later also philology. Politically interested, Bacmeister soon made the acquaintance of the Nordland fraternity (today's Normannia Tübingen student union ) and became a member there.

When the lawyers Friedrich Hecker and Gustav Struve proclaimed the republic in Baden on April 12, 1848, Bacmeister and many fellow students joined them. He joined the German Democratic Legion , which competed against the army under the leadership of Georg Herwegh and had to surrender on April 27 of the same year. In Dossenbach Bacmeister was captured and imprisoned as a "revolutionary and traitors". After several months in prison in Bruchsal , he was taken to Hohenasperg fortress .

After his release, he initially worked as a private tutor in Deidesheim and Krefeld and was finally able to successfully complete his studies in 1853 with a philological exam. Bacmeister then got jobs as a teacher in Weinsberg , Ulm and Reutlingen in 1855 . Later he was appointed to the rectorate administrator in Esslingen and in 1857 to the preceptor in Reutlingen. During this time Bacmeister devoted himself not only to his own literary work, but also began to make a name for himself as a translator from Latin. The Germania of Tacitus , the Odes of Horace and the satires of Juvenal should be mentioned here.

After Bacmeister had repeatedly written articles on the day's events as a pedagogue, he gave up all of his pedagogical offices in 1864 and became a journalist and editor in the editorial team of the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung . In poor health, Adolf Bacmeister ended this employment relationship in 1872 and now only worked as a private scholar and for the same reason turned down an offer from the Vienna daily Die Presse to start as a librarian and literary editor.

Instead, he and his sister, who had been running his household for years, moved to Stuttgart, where most of his family and friends lived. Here he only wrote a few articles for the features section of the Kölnische Zeitung and, among other things, on his Celtic letters . Adolf Bacmeister died there on February 25, 1873 at the age of about 46. Bacmeister was unmarried and childless.

Works (selection)

  • Nibelungenlied edited for the youth . Neff, Stuttgart 1858.
  • Gudrun. Old German hero poem edited in new German . Reutlingen 1860. 2nd edition: Neff, Stuttgart without the year (1874).
  • "Freidanks humility". Sayings from the 13th century. Edited new German. Palm, Reutlingen 1861.
  • Johann Fizion, Chronicle of the City of Reutlingen . Stuttgart 1862
  • The place names in Württemberg . 1864
  • Alemannic walks. 1. Place names of the Celtic-Roman times. Slavic settlements. Cotta, Stuttgart 1867.
  • Margaret More's Diary 1522–35 . Mäcken, Stuttgart 1861/67; Paderborn 1870.
  • Germanistic trifles . Kröner, Stuttgart 1870.
  • Celtic letters . Trübner, Strasbourg 1873 (posthumously edited by Otto Keller ).
  • Songbook for the youth . Heilbronn 1876

literature

  • Julius Hartmann:  Bacmeister, Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 434-437.
  • Emil Dovifat:  Bacmeister, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 507 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Adolf Bacmeister. Stuttgart 1873. (Festschrift)
  • J. Hartmann, J. Kleiber, Rudolf Schmid: Treatises and poems by Adolf Bacmeister. With a biography and a picture of Bacmeister , Kohlhammer-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1886.
  • Hermann Haering, Otto Hohenstatt (ed.): Swabian life pictures. 3rd volume. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1942. (Contains a short biography of Bacmeister.)
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 39-40. (with picture)
  • Karl-Heinz Best : Adolf Lucas Bacmeister (1827–1873) , in: Glottometrics 13, 2006, pages 79–84 (PDF full text ). (Reprinted in: Karl-Heinz Best (Ed.): Studies on the history of quantitative linguistics. Volume 1. RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2015, pages 7-13. ISBN 978-3-942303-30-9 .) The contribution provides especially Bacmeister's work on language statistics: comparison of word count, word length and number of letters of a certain text in 6 European languages ​​(German [original text], English, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish); 1000 letter count; Name statistics of Reutlingen and Eningen.

Web links

Wikisource: Adolf Bacmeister  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Bacmeister, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bacmeister, Lukas Adolf; Backmeister, Adolf Lukas; Bernoff, Theobald (pseudonym); Lernoff, Theobald (pseudonym); Bacmeister, Adolf Lucas; Bacmeister, Lucas Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, journalist, philologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1873
Place of death Stuttgart