August Jäger (Author)

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August Jäger (born August 13, 1808 in Ringelheim , Kingdom of Westphalia , later Kingdom of Hanover , today Salzgitter , † December 8, 1848 in Nietleben ) was a German writer. He is known under his pseudonym August von Schlumb .

Life

As the son of the chief bailiff Heinrich Jäger and his wife Wilhelmine geb. In October 1819, Jacobs moved to the Francke Foundations' pedagogy in Halle (Saale) as city scholar . The merchant Schmitz from Harbke was appointed as guardian for his father, who died in 1821 . In September 1826 he was expelled from the pietistic institute due to a lack of morality and graduated from another grammar school. Enrolled at the University of Jena for Protestant Theology on October 25th , he renounced the Corps Franconia Jena . Still a theology student , he went to the Friedrichs University in Halle in the summer semester of 1829 and was also active in his cartel corps Marchia Halle . As Sekundant in a fatal duel he became imprisonment convicted, he in the fortress Magdeburg was serving. After trying unsuccessfully to find accommodation with a French line regiment, he reported to the Foreign Legion in Strasbourg . Not an officer, but only a vice-corporal, he was released after a year and a half by pretending to be myopia to the troop doctor . The account of this period became his first literary work.

The German Student (1835)

In the winter semester of 1833/34 he returned to Germany and stayed two semesters at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität . This is where Felix Schnabel or The German Student was born . The “Contribution to the Moral History of the Nineteenth Century” has autobiographical elements, but is neither an autobiography nor a factual report (D. Herzog). Hunter's alter ego Felix Schnabel wears the ribbons of five corps , including Franconia Jena, Marchia Halle, Hildesia Göttingen and Saxo-Borussia , and attends all senior conventions at the time . From his own experience, Jäger knew not only Jena, Halle and Heidelberg, but also Erlangen, Würzburg, Marburg, Giessen, Tübingen, Freiburg, Munich and Strasbourg. The humorous descriptions are (sometimes still today) accurate and often sarcastic. The novel also commemorates Hunter's poodle ; as a corp dog he accompanied Jäger / Schnabel on many trips and bars . Otto Julius Bierbaum brought out the standard work of student literature in 1907 in Berlin. Another reprint appeared in Graz in 1972.

Without having passed an exam and politically unhindered, Jäger fled the Metternich pressure of the Vormärz . He sought contact with liberal and democratic circles. After an interlude in Zurich , he lived in Paris in 1835/36 among German emigrants and students . In London since 1837, he translated works by the essayist William Hazlitt . Back in Germany in 1839, he worked in Leipzig on the 8th edition of the Brockhaus Encyclopedia . In Koethen he was a frequent guest of the banker von Behr, whose son Alfred he had met as a medical student in Paris. At the regulars' table of the liberals, he polemicized against the court conditions in Anhalt-Koethen . His genre painting "Der Roué" caused offense.

August's younger brother Carl was Hermann von Pückler-Muskau's private secretary and travel companion for many years . So when he came into contact with the adventurous prince, August Jäger wrote his first biography. On the title page he trades for the first time as Dr. phil. It is not known where and what he did his doctorate . His last book deals with the Arab (horse) . Sick of syphilis , he was admitted to the Halle-Nietleben provincial insane asylum in June 1847 . There he died a year and a half later at the age of 41. His mother survived him in Halle.

meaning

Jäger is probably the oldest representation of the Jenenser beer states .

A file on Jäger's life is preserved in the Corps Franconia Jena archive. Wilhelm Fabricius reported on hunters in the academic monthly notebooks XVI (1900) and XXIV (1908). Contemporary descriptions of Jäger's personality are due to a Jena fraternity and a democratic and anti-clerical journalist.

Jäger's work was partly printed by important publishers (Hoffmann and Campe, Metzler, Engelmann). Essentially, the 20 volumes deal with North Africa and the Corps. Even if “in the lower part of Parnassus”, The German Student is still enjoyable today and should not only be of interest to student historians , but also to Schlaraffen (D. Herzog).

“One of the most entertaining fellows of this group [in Koethen] was the one known by the pub name Schlump ... Dr. Jäger, an inexhaustible narrator of the strangest adventures, a modern Münchhausen, who, like his role model, captivated and amused the audience with the most wonderful stories at the expense of the truth. "

- Max Ring

Works

  • Felix Schnabel or The German Student , 1835
  • The German in London - a contribution to the history of the political refugees of our time , 2 volumes. Leipzig 1839
  • Latest painting from London. A guide through the English capital , 2 volumes. Hamburg 1839
  • Ben Mussa's, the envoy of Abdl-Kadr, letters about France, Holland, Belgium and England, freely based on Bedouin , 3 volumes. Leipzig 1840
  • Sketches and memories from Algiers and Algeria . Leipzig
  • The oriental horse and the private stud of His Majesty the King of Württemberg. A hippological monograph for breeders, friends and connoisseurs of noble horses . Stuttgart 1846 and 1861. Facsimile at Olms, Hildesheim, New York 1973

literature

  • Dr. Dietrich Herzog: Foreword to the new edition . Reprint: "A. v. S .: Felix Schnabel's University Years or The German Student . “Graz 1972, pp. 1–12

Web links

Wikisource: August Jäger  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 124/126; 99/36
  2. ↑ August Jäger gen von Schlumb: The German in Algiers or two years from my life . Stuttgart 1834
  3. ↑ Bierbaum edition 1907
  4. ^ Swiss sketches , 1838
  5. ^ The German in Paris , 1838
  6. ↑ Two volumes (Reutlingen 1844) deal with court cabals, duodecorcist corruption and evil favoritism. The hero, Baron von Zabern, who was depicted very negatively, was active at Pomerania Halle and Saxo-Borussia.
  7. ↑ Gerhard Neuenhoff: A hare hunt at the gates of the University of Halle in 1829, by Prince von Pückler-Muskau and his secretary Carl Jäger as a foreign legionnaire . Einst und Jetzt 28 (1983), pp. 171-180
  8. ^ The life of the Prince of Pückler-Muskau , Stuttgart 1843
  9. ↑ Gustav Kombst: Memories from my life . Leipzig 1848
  10. ↑ Otto von Corvin-Wierbitzky: From the life of a people 's warrior , Vol. 2, 1864
  11. ^ Max Ring : Memories , Vol. 1, 1898
  12. ^ Note from the German Literature Archive
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlumb, August von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Ringelheim
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1848
Place of death Rivet life