Carl Christian Tenner

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Title page to a song written by Carl Christian Tenner, set to music by Heinrich Esser , published in 1842 by Verlag Franz Schott , Mainz

Carl Christian Tenner (born April 16, 1791 in Grünstadt ; † October 30, 1866 in Darmstadt ) was a state official and poet from the Grand Ducal Hesse region.

Life

Carl Christian Tenner was born as the son of the father of the same name (1750–1829), an official or wine merchant from Liningian-West Burgundy, and his wife Johanna born. Schmidt, born in Grünstadt. Up to the age of 18 he attended the local grammar school and wanted to become a Lutheran religion teacher. Because of his family's opposition to the French regime, he was unable to implement this plan, and for a time they had to flee to Westerburg , his mother's hometown.

After the French withdrew from the annexed territories on the left bank of the Rhine , a provisional Austrian-Bavarian government was formed in Bad Kreuznach for the area of ​​the previous Département du Mont-Tonnerre , and Carl Christian Tenner immediately placed himself in the service. By resolution of the Congress of Vienna in 1816 part of the area fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse as the province of Rheinhessen . In 1816 as a government calculator still in royal Bavarian state services, Tenner finally went to Mainz as the Hessian government secretary and in 1821 came to the Oberfinanzkammer Darmstadt as a calculator ; In 1831 he became an auditor at the tax control authority. Seriously ill in 1838, he retired early in 1840, where he recovered and until his death devoted himself to poetry that he had previously done on the side. At times he lived with his family in Giessen .

Tenner built a "beautiful, stately house" for himself in Darmstadt on the corner of Wilhelminenplatz and Hügelstrasse, as an old report on the city's history says. The pharmacist Dr. In 1843 Ferdinand Ludwig Winckler set up the "Adler Pharmacy" , which still exists today , that of the poet's son, Dr. Alfons Tenner, who in the meantime had finished his pharmacy studies in Gießen, was in charge from 1863. The building was destroyed in 1945, the pharmacy remained - in a new building - on the same place (Wilhelminenstraße 13) and was owned by the Tenner family until 2005.

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Carl Christian Tenner loved folk songs. Many of his poems were written by him as text on a domestic or foreign folk tune, such as B. “In the forest in the forest, that's my most beautiful stay” , or contemporary composers such as Niels Wilhelm Gade , Ludwig Erk , Heinrich Esser , Carl Amand Mangold and Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken have set them to music. He also conducted language studies in order to be able to translate foreign poetry and song texts into German, for example a collection of "Nordic songs" . A large collection of poems and songs by Tenner was published posthumously in Darmstadt in 1870. There are also librettos by Carl Christian Tenner for two Singspiele , namely for “The Fisherman's Hut on Lake Brienz - A Swiss Painting with Local Folk Melodies and Dance” (1852) and “The Mill in the Odenwald - A Comedy with Hessian Folk Melodies and Dance” (1853).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital view
  2. ↑ Herman Haupt : Hessische Biographien , Volume 2, 1927, p. 235; (Detail scan)
  3. ↑ Official Journal for the royal Bavarian area on the left bank of the Rhine , Speyer, year 1816, columns 269 u. 492
  4. ^ Website on the history of the Adler Pharmacy in Darmstadt
  5. ↑ Palatinate Memorabile , Volume 3, p. 133, Verlag des Evangelischen Verein für die Pfalz, Westheim, 1875 (digital scan)
  6. ↑ Website for the song "In the woods in the woods, that's my most beautiful stay" (folk tune)
  7. ↑ Website for the song “In the forest in the forest, that's my most beautiful stay” , set to music by Carl Amand Mangold
  8. ↑ Digital view of the volume of poems published in 1870 (with curriculum vitae)
  9. ↑ Digital view of the libretto for "The Mill in the Odenwald"
personal data
SURNAME Tenner, Carl Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessian civil servant, poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1866
Place of death Darmstadt