Bartholomew Del Pero
Bartholomäus Del Pero (also Bartolomeo, Bartolo Del Pero ; born February 5, 1850 in Pizzano, municipality of Vermiglio , Trentino; † May 13, 1933 in Innsbruck ) was a Tyrolean poet.
Life
Del Pero grew up as the son of a bricklayer and small farmer in a mountain village in the Val di Sole northwest of Trento . He initially worked as a bricklayer's assistant and was supposed to take over the parents' farm. During visits to Venice , where his older brother lived, he attended the figure and architectural drawing school of the Accademia di belle arti . In 1870 he was drafted into the Kaiserjäger . After the end of his service, he joined the gendarmerie in 1874 and made it up to the accounting council. In 1879 he married Antonia Kleisl, who came from the Tyrolean lowlands , and settled in Innsbruck.
Since the beginning of the 1880s, Del Pero had been in friendly contact with Brother Willram , Martin Greif , Angelika and Ludwig von Hörmann , Johann Georg Obrist , Adolf Pichler , Josef Weingartner and Ignaz Vinzenz Zingerle . He was particularly connected with the composer Josef Pembaur the Elder , who set several of his poems to music, and with his son Josef Pembaur the Younger . As part of the Adolf Pichler community, he was involved in the publication of the works of Adolf Pichler, Anton Renk and Franz Kranewitter .
Del Pero mainly wrote poetry. His defining themes are home and nature, in particular he processed mythical material from the Dolomites and Trentino into lyrical poetry . His great role model was Adolf Pichler. Although he only learned the language during his service with the Kaiserjäger, Del Pero wrote in German. In his estate there was an unpublished collection of Italian poetry that he had compiled and translated. His wife Antonia and daughter Silvia (1880-1960) were also active as a writer.
After his death, Del Pero was buried in a city grave of honor in Innsbruck's Westfriedhof .
Works
- Pictures and legends . Wagner, Innsbruck 1889
- The battle at Berg Isel 1809. Dramatic poem in three pictures with a prologue. (set to music by Josef Pembaur the Elder )
- Traces of a life. Selected poems. Schmidt, Munich 1913
- Between the Karwendel and the Dolomites. New poems. The Bergland Book, Graz 1931
- numerous articles in newspapers and magazines
literature
- Del-Pero, Bartholomew. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 176.
- Christine Riccabona, Sebastian von Sauter, Anton Unterkircher, Marcel Zischg: Bartholomäus Del Pero . In: Lexicon Literature in Tyrol (Research Institute Brenner Archive of the University of Innsbruck)
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Innsbruck: Honorary graves of the city of Innsbruck (PDF; 223 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Del Pero, Bartholomew |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Del Pero, Bartolomeo; Del Pero, Bartolo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pizzano, Vermiglio , Trentino |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1933 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |