August Herbart
August Herbart (born December 1, 1851 in Wölferbütt , † October 24, 1936 in Eisenach ; full name August Nikolaus Herbart ) was a German dialect poet .
Life
August Herbart was born on December 1, 1851 as the son of the teacher Johannes Herbart in the small schoolhouse in Wölferbütt in the Thuringian Rhön. His childhood was full of privation, but harmonious and stimulating.
Later he attended the teacher training college in Eisenach. He was a full-time gymnastics teacher and taught at the then secondary and Georgian school, temporarily at the Charlotten and Jakobsschule, until his retirement in 1915.
August Herbart died on October 24, 1936 at the age of 85 after a short illness in Eisenach.
Services
August Herbart was a loyal supporter of the gymnastics father Jahn and for many years headed the Eisenach gymnastics club, to which Fritz Reuter also belonged. He founded the Thuringian gymnastics teachers association, campaigned for uniform teaching throughout Germany and played a key role in the general introduction of girls' gymnastics in schools.
He was a founding and honorary member of the Rhön Club .
In the obituary for his death it was written: August Herbart became the first significant dialect poet of the Rhön, who captured the sorrows and joys of this bitter race of people in poetry and prose. The accurate humor and the quietly hidden melancholy are above all the characteristics of his great poetic talent.
In honor of the dialect poet, the main street in Wölferbütt was named after him and a memorial plaque was erected on the village square, where the house where he was born.
Works
The first edition of his collection of poems in Wölferbütter's dialect of the Rhön sounds appeared in 1887. Two further editions were published, a second in 1917 and a third in 1937, shortly after the author's death. In 1991 an abridged reprint edition of the third edition was published.
August Herbart describes in his poems and stories above all the life of the people in the northern Rhön. He has also translated poems from other dialects, for example by Fritz Reuter, or from High German into the Rhön dialect.
literature
- August Herbart, Hermann Herbart: Rhön sounds . 3rd edition, Carl Keßler, Kaltennordheim 1937
- Heinrich Weigel: A teacher's son wrote in the Rhön dialect . In: Thuringian regional newspaper . November 28, 1986
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herbart, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herbart, August Nikolaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dialect poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wölferbütt |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1936 |
| Place of death | Eisenach |