Adolf Ey

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Adolf Ey;
Drawing by August Heitmüller , around 1929

Karl Julius Adolf Ey ( pseudonym : Julius Adolf ) (born January 18, 1844 in Clausthal , † September 18, 1934 in Hanover ) was a German high school teacher and writer . The philologist and Romance writer wrote novels and stories, the actions of which took place in his Harz homeland .

Life

Adolf was born in Clausthal. A close relationship to August Ey is doubted. He finished high school and then studied from 1863 to 1866 at the University of Göttingen , first theology , then new languages. During his studies he became a member of the Brunsviga fraternity .

As a 10-year-old Adolf noticed the success of his father's most famous book, the Harzbuch travel guide or the guide through the Harz Mountains .

From 1866 to 1869, Adolf Ey held a position as a teacher at an English Institute near Lake Geneva . In 1870 he went to Lüneburg to take his exams for the higher teaching post. In the following year, in 1871, he went to Hanover as a grammar school teacher for newer languages, first to the local Lyceum II there , in 1873/74 to Flensburg to the Royal Evangelical Gymnasium , and then to return to the Hanoverian Lyceum in 1874, where he ten years later, in 1894, became a senior teacher was promoted.

On April 1, 1892, Ey was appointed professor and from May 1 of the same year worked at the Hanover Technical University as a lecturer for the French language (until March 2, 1896).

After Adolf Ey the Association of German modern languages teachers had founded, he was on 1 October 1898 in the retirement staggered, so he could devote himself to his literary activities.

Above all, Adolf Ey wrote folk poems, stories and fairy tales , which were often played in his homeland in Upper Harz . In 1914 he published his autobiography under the title Confessions of an Old Schoolmaster .

In the art and culture magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus , works by - and about - Adolf Ey were found 88 times.

Awards

  • The Adolf-Ey-Straße , which was laid out in the Hanoverian district of Waldhausen in 1924 and where the poet lived at the time, was named so on the occasion of the writer's 80th birthday.
  • A street in Clausthal-Zellerfeld is named after him.

Works

Own

  • Confessions of an old schoolmaster (in Gothic script ), Berlin: A. Hoffmann, 1914 (autobiography)
  • Before the gate closes. Poems , in Fraktur, Berlin: A. Hoffmann, 1916
  • From all kinds of drawers. Poems. Author of the "Gedichte e. Grandfather" , 2nd edition, Berlin: Hofmann, 1917
  • Poems of a grandfather , 4th, through. Ed., Leipzig: W. Vobach & Co. [1925]
  • Harz blood. A serious u. purring book , with book decoration and illustrations by Reinecke-Altenau, Hanover: Helwing'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung [1927]
  • Stippstörken from Senior Wilhelm Bödeker , Hanover: Helwing, 1933
  • Marianne. A student love on Lake Geneva , Hanover: Helwingsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, [1933]

Participation

  • Ballads / Friedrich Schiller . For school and House ed. u. ext. by Adolf Ey , in the series Reclam's Universal Library , No. 1710, Leipzig: Ph. Reclam jun. [New, improved edition, 1922]
    • Reprint 1948

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Adolf Ey  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Adolf Ey  - Sources and full texts

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Hugo Thielen: EY, (1) ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b Compare the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ http://www.brunsviga.net/lebensbilder.html
  4. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 185-186.
  5. ↑ August Ey: Harzbuch or escort man through the Harz ; online through google books
  6. ↑ Note: The presentation of other sources, the ten-year-old Adolf Ey wrote the book, is verifiably incorrect due to the online source given above.
  7. ↑ see web links
  8. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann : Adolf-Ey-Strasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 8
  9. ↑ anonymous: Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature , (August Heitmüller drew the heads. Wilhelm Metzig designed the entire equipment of the plant.), Vol. 1. Verlag H. Osterwald, Hanover (around 1929), without page numbers
  10. ^ Adolf-Ey-Strasse in Clausthal-Zellerfeld. In: strassen-in-deutschland.de . Accessed March 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hey, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ey, Karl Julius Adolf; Ey, Julius Adolf; Ey, Julius A .; Adolf, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theo- and philologist, teacher, professor and local poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Clausthal
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1934
Place of death Hanover