Adolf Calmberg

Adolf Calmberg (born April 11, 1837 in Lauterbach , † May 19, 1887 in Küsnacht ) was a German teacher and poet .

Life

Born as the son of a judicial officer, Calmberg attended the community / elementary school in Lauterbach and the private institute of Pastor Wilhelm Trautwein. This was followed by an apprenticeship as a pharmacist and attending grammar school in Büdingen . In 1856 he went to Gießen , Berlin and Leipzig to study natural sciences and philology . During his studies he became a member of the Germania Gießen fraternity in 1857 , the Brandenburgia Berlin fraternity in 1860 and the Germania fraternity in Leipzig in 1862 . With Karl Weigand in Giessen he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1859 he passed his faculty examination and became a teacher at the Grand Ducal Gymnasium in Giessen. In 1860 he became an assessor . In 1877 he went to the cantonal teacher training college in Küsnacht as a teacher of German and German literature . In 1896 he headed a private institute in Schlitz, Hesse, and eventually became a teacher of German language, literature and history . He worked as a dramatist and lecturer . Calmberg was didactic advisor to Conrad Ferdinand Meyer .

Honors

• Honorary member of the Society of German Students in Zurich (GdSt.)

Publications (selection)

• Jürgen Wullenweber, Mayor of Lübeck. A show poem. Leipzig 1862. ( digital edition ), Kaulen, Cologne 1866.
• The Secretary. Comedy in one act. 3rd edition, Reclam, Leipzig 1881.
• Theodor Körner. Dramatic poem in four acts. 3rd edition, Leipzig 1875.
• Ingeborg. Play in four acts. C. Cnobloch, Leipzig 1886.
• The art of speech. Textbook of rhetoric, stylistics, poetics. 4th, improved edition, Orell Füssli, Zurich 1908.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 107-108.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Calmberg in the catalog of the German National Library