Carl Beyer (pastor)

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Carl Beyer

Carl August Friedrich Albrecht Beyer (born February 14, 1847 in Schwerin , † November 25, 1923 in Rostock ) was a German pastor , writer and historian . He dealt intensively with the history of Mecklenburg and researched the past of the city of Laage , whose first chronicle he wrote.

Life

Carl Beyer was born as the son of the teacher Georg Johann Beyer and his wife Marie Luise, b. Hacker, born in Schwerin. He attended the Schwerin high school from 1856 . After graduating from high school in 1866, he studied theology in Rostock and Erlangen . He then got a job as a private tutor with the Count von der Schulenburg in Tressow near Wismar and worked as a teacher at various schools in Schwerin. From 1875 to 1900 he was a Protestant pastor in Laage. From 1900 he lived as a freelance writer in Schwerin and Rostock. Beyer died in Rostock in 1923, but was buried in the old cemetery in Laage. The neurologist and freemason Bernhard Beyer was his son.

criticism

The literary criticism valued Carl Beyer above all for the detailed, popular descriptions of everyday life in many short stories and narratives. The cultural-historical treatises that characterize him as "Mecklenburg Gustav Freytag " ( Otto Vitense ) are of particular importance . The lack of mastery in character design and - due to the time - the nationalistic tones in the writer's older work ( Reinhard Rösler ) are viewed critically .

Honors

In 1917, Carl Beyer was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin for his literary achievements. As the author of cultural-historical writings, the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology offered him honorary membership. The University of Rostock awarded Beyer an honorary doctorate in 1922 . At the rectory of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Laage there has been a memorial plaque since around 1935, which commemorates the pastor who wrote.

Fonts

Cultural history

  • History of the city location. In: Yearbooks and annual reports of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volumes 52 and 53, Schwerin 1887 and 1888.
  • From student life in the 17th century. Schwerin 1899.
  • Cultural-historical pictures from Mecklenburg. Berlin 1903.
    1. Sorcery and witch trials in Protestant Mecklenburg. Among the poor and dishonorable.
    2. The country pastor in Protestant Mecklenburg. The peasant's life and customs.
    3. The government and the peasants. With the serfs.

Low German

  • Hedgehog stories. 1901.
  • Ut de Preußentid. A show in three acts for our people. 1904.

Historical stories and novels

  • The highest salvation. The story of Dietrich von Bern and his fellow soldiers.
  • About duty and right. A novel from the time of the Vitalienbrüder . 1894.
  • Anastasia. A historical novel from the Middle Ages. 1888.
  • Pribislav. Historical novel from the time of the last freedom struggles of the Mecklenburg Wends . 1888.
  • Greten washes. Award-winning story from Mecklenburg folk life. 1890.
  • A new building under rubble . Post- Thirty Years War novel . 1896.
  • Wilhelm Pickhingst's war journeys. 1896, 5th edition. 1915.
  • The fisherman and the sea mines. 1898.
  • The old duchess. 1899.
  • The story of the little hunchback. 1900.
  • Young lady. From the depths. In the last hour. 1900.
  • The mermaid. Schwerin 1905.
  • The nuns of Dobbertin . A novel from the time of the Reformation . 1907.
  • Brumm and his Mr. Leut - Torn out three times. 1910.
  • Pascholl! A folk novel from the French era. 1911. ( digitized version )
  • The moor shepherd. A story from the early days of the German struggle for freedom. 8th edition. 1925.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entries by Carl Beyer in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

  • Otto August: popular writer and house poet. A contribution to the history of popular German literature in the 19th century. Issue 2, 1908.
  • Hans Beltz: Carl Beyer. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte . Vol. 12.1936, Issue 140 (August), pp. 409-412.
  • Jürgen Borchardt: Literary walk through Mecklenburg. Writing pastor with a rich legacy. In: Mecklenburg-Magazin. No. 20, December 14, 1990.
  • Hartmut Brun : A tendency to cheerfulness. In: North German lighthouse. April 25, 1980.
  • Dirk Frontzek: Carl Beyer . In: Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg. Vol. 5.2009, pp. 68-70
  • Ingrid Möller: Literary walk through Mecklenburg. The writing pastor. Carl Beyer stayed in Laage for 25 years. In: Mecklenburg-Magazin. No. 21, December 2001, p. 2.
  • Gunnar Müller-Waldeck [Ed.]: Pegasus on the Baltic Sea beach. Between Trave, Oder, coast and lake district. Literature and literary history in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Rostock 1999, p. 103.
  • Reinhard Rösler: Carl Beyer. A Mecklenburg Gustav Freytag? In: Kiek in. Mecklenburg contributions to literary heritage. From the establishment of an empire to the First World War. Schwerin 1988, pp. 43-49.
  • Carl Schröder: Mecklenburg and the Mecklenburgers in beautiful literature. Berlin 1909.
  • Otto Vitense: A Mecklenburg Gustav Freytag. In: Rostocker Anzeiger. No. 275, November 25, 1933.

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personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beyer, Carl August Friedrich Albrecht (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1923
Place of death Rostock