Caspar Alexander Honthumb

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Caspar Alexander von Honthumb , pseudonyms: Caspar or Casper , Jeremias Huckebein , Adolar Sanftleben and Gregor Buchbinder (born June 12, 1839 in Werne an der Lippe, † June 30, 1890 in Hoboken , New Jersey , USA ) was a German-American writer , Humorist, satirist and journalist.

Life

Honthumb was the son of the judge Matthias Honthumb (1804–1864). When his father was transferred to Münster as district judge, the family moved from Werne to Münster in 1851 , where he graduated from high school in 1860. He then took up his studies in mathematics and natural sciences at the then Royal Theological and Philosophical Academy in Münster and continued it from Easter 1862 at the University of Göttingen , where he was accepted into the Corps Hannovera . From 1864 to 1866 he fought in the Second Schleswig War as a soldier on the Prussian side in Schleswig-Holstein . He published his experiences, especially the storming of the Düppeler Schanzen , anonymously or under the pseudonym “Caspar” in the works “Die Westfalen in Schleswig-Holstein” , 1864 and “Mein Tagebuch” , 1865 and the liberal political magazine published twice a day in Münster Westfälischer Merkur newspaper .

At Michaelmas 1866, Honthumb took a position as a trial teacher at the Paulinum grammar school in Münster, but emigrated to North America in 1867 . He became an employee and correspondent of various newspapers and magazines such as the German-language New Yorker Staats-Zeitung , the English-language New York Herald , the French-language Figaro and other regional newspapers. In 1870 he founded the joke paper Die Kratzbürste in Cincinnati , but it did not last long. He was the editor of the Cincinnati Volksfreundes , a leading German-language newspaper for the Democrats in the US state of Ohio , and its Sunday morning fiction supplement ; here he used the pseudonym Jeremias Huckebein . After founding the Cincinnati Free Press in 1874, he was editor of this Republican newspaper until 1882 . From 1882 to 1885 he was editor of the New York weekly newspaper Um die Welt . Under the pseudonyms Adolar Sanftleben and Gregor Buchbinder , he published humorous-satirical articles in the New York-based German and English-language satirical magazine Puck , of which he was editor from July 1887 to March 1888.

In 1879 he translated the English-language novel "The Secret of the Andes" by the journalist and US diplomat Friedrich Hassaurek into German. This was published by Robert Clarke & Co under the title "The Secret of the Andes " . In 1886 Honthumb published his four humorous stories in New York under the title "American Humoresken", "The stick with the golden head" , "The two rivals" , "The last good deed" and "The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein" .

He remained connected to corps students in the USA; he was an active member of the New York SC Club , the Old Men Seniors Convention of New York City . From there he also reported for the organ of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association , the Academic Monthly Books . In the Academic monthly booklet 1887 published in two parts his "memories of the student days" .

Fonts

Independent publications

  • The Westphalia in Schleswig-Holstein. Colorful pictures from war life. Münster 1864 [anonymous]
  • My diary. Memories from Schleswig-Holstein. From Caspar, Musketeer of the 53rd Regiment. Münster 1865 [anonymous]
  • The secret of the Andes. Novel. German translation of Friedrich Hassaurek's novel "The secret of the Andes" , Cincinnati 1879 ( digital copy ; PDF; 19.8 MB)
  • American humoresques. New York 1886, content:
    • The stick with the golden head.
    • The two rivals.
    • The last good deed.
    • The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein.

Articles in magazines

  • Chat letters [from Munster]. In: Westfälischer Merkur 1865
  • Chat letters from the war. In: Westfälischer Merkur 1866
  • Articles in the Cincinnatier newspaper sheets.
  • Articles in the newspaper Truth Friend.
  • Articles in the Cincinnati People's Friend newspaper .
  • Posts in Sunday morning. (Fiction Sunday supplement of the Cincinnati People's Friend )
  • Posts in: Around the World. between 1882 and 1890 (political and fictional articles as well as war letters)
  • Articles in the satirical magazine Puck , July 1887 to March 1888, under the pseudonyms Adolar Sanftleben and Gregor Buchbinder
  • Memories of Student Time: I. The Academic Judge. II. Sternschnuppen , in: Akademische Monatshefte 4 (1887/88), pp. 170–176.

Handwritten

literature

  • Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera to Göttingen. Volume 1 (1809-1899), Göttingen 2002, No. 671
  • Wilhelm Kosch , Bruno Berger and Heinz Rupp: German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical handbook founded by W. Kosch. 3rd, completely revised edition. 8th volume, Kober, Hohberg 1981, ISBN 3-7720-1537-9
  • Ernst Raßmann: News of the life and writings of Münsterland writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Münster 1866, NF 1881
  • German Biographical Archive , Fiche 566, Sp. 139f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emil Weller : Lexicon pseudonymorum, dictionary of pseudonyms of all times and peoples, or directory of those authors who used false names. Regensburg, Coppenrath, 1886, p. 99
  2. ↑ Donna-Christine Sell / Dennis Francis Walle: Guide to the Heinrich A. Rattermann collection of German-American manuscripts. Urbana, University of Illinois Library 1979, p. 39
  3. ^ Socrates. Zeitschrift für das Gymnasialwesen 21 (1867), p. 357
  4. ↑ Pseudonyms after Heinrich Armin Rattermann: German-American writers and artists pseudonyms , in: German-American magazine: Quarterly magazine for history, literature, science, art, school and popular life of Germans in America. 1 (1887), p. 143 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Honthumb, Caspar Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Honthumb, Caspar Alexander von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Werne on the lip
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1890
Place of death Hoboken , USA