Celander (pseudonym)

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Title page of Des Verliebten Studentens anders Theil (Cölln: Peters Marteau oldest son, Jonas Enclume, 1715).

Celander as a literary pseudonym was used by probably two different authors in the early 18th century, neither of whom are identified.

Identifications of the first user of the pseudonym refer to Christoph Woltereck (1686–1735) and Johann Georg Gressel (1675–1771), field physician to August the Strong and Karl XII. of Sweden.

The separation of two authors is obvious if one compares the two “ gallant ” student novels that were associated with the pseudonym. The student in love (Cöln: P. Martaux , 1709) and Des Verliebten Studentens anders Theil (Cölln: Peters Marteau's eldest son, Jonas Enclume, 1715) are among the most revealing novels as far as can be seen by student authorship that subsequently appeared on the German book market Christian Friedrich Hunold's Satyrical Novel (1706) published. Both volumes are full of student amours, who make sexual encounters far more clearly than the surrounding production of this genre.

The title Die ververtte Welt oder satyrischer Roman (1718), also published under the fictitious publisher's name Marteau, is foreseeable from a different author. The preface as well as the decidedly different approach to morality make it likely that the publisher or the author used the pseudonym in circulation to give the current title the scandalous scent.

Johann Leonhard Rost alias Meletaon dealt with the author of the student in love in several stages between 1711 and 1715. In the show place of the learned and gallant world (Nuremberg: J. Chr. Lochner, 1711) he went so far as to threaten the dissolution of the pseudonym and the identification of the author. The passage is enriched with approximate statements about the identity of Celander and inserted into a conversation between two student heroes of the novel (Amando and Gerano) who literally take apart the work of the competitor and use it to light a pipe:

Except for several sermons from Postillen, [he did not write anything] then mon Frere must know that he is a theologian who has preached several times, first he studied at the University of Giessen, and then studied in Halle, yes, where I am right, also in Leipzig but I was told that in the latter place he spent more time with depauching [drinking and whores] than with studying, but his name is, as it is easy to see, taken from the Greek.
      I thought that at once, Gerano replied, it's a Greek name, and now I know the Auctorem himself, isn't it true, he's a small person, and at home not far from Frankfurt, it should cover me up as if I were him in Halle known. […]
      Amando then showed Gerano several passages in which Leander [meaning Celander, this is evident from the previous mention of the title] galloped a lot, and went on to tell how he made a name for himself with this Pasquill, that he was at the heights and lower in great disgrace that he could not even hope to find employment in his fatherland, while in his Scarteque he was touching people from Extraction, who could help him and help him to a service, but he will now a village schoolmaster or a Herr Johannes who barely eat enough bread.

Celander responded to the attack in the foreword of the second edition of his student in love (Cöln: P. Marteau, 1713), Meletaon came back to it in the modest responsibility he gave in 1714 to his Cvrievsen love incidents (pp. 163-254). Celander's answer appeared in the preface to the second part of his book: Des amliebten Studentens anders Theil (Cölln: Peters Marteau oldest son, Jonas Enclume, 1715). The fact that this feud found no further resonance in the preface to the Wrong World of 1718 makes it probable that the latter is completely outside this context and is most likely the work of a completely different author.

Titles that appeared under the pseudonym Celander

  • The student in love / In some pleasant / and true love stories / which happened in a few years in Germany. Presented to the gallant world as a gracious indulgence / by CELANDER (Cöln: P. Martaux , 1709)
  • Historical pleasure grotto / Holding in itself: a hundred histories / put together from many of the most credible and newest scribes / And opened to the Curieusen reader to indulged mind-indulgence / By CELANDER (Hamburg: Christian Liebezeit , 1710)
  • The unhappy bar woman princess from Armenia, In a pleasant love and hero story / Introduced to the curious reader for the pleasure of the soul / Von CELANDER (Hamburg: Christian Liebezeit, 1713)
  • Of the enamored student Other Part / Which Among the Life and Love Story of the Spanish Marcheson Infortunio de Stellos. Celander introduces the gallant world to the rewarded amusement / Schertz-und Ernsthracht. (Cölln: Peters Marteau eldest son, Jonas Enclume, 1715)
  • The grievous and yet clever Cupid or a funny novel in which the curious world is introduced to the curious world to pass the time in idle hours by Celander (Cölln: Peter Marteau, 1715)
  • Celanders Verliebte-Galante / Sinn-mixed and grave poems (Hamburg, Leipzig: Christian Liebezeit, 1716)
  • The Wrong World Or Satyrical ROMAN In which, under various strange characters, love affairs and other remarkable incidents, the distinction between human inclinations is shown by CELANDERN (Cölln: Peter Marteau Nachgelassene Erben, 1718)
  • The exposed sin-nakedness Of the female breast-exposure, not kept from sin: To the women-persons to abhorrence, and together with an appendix of those writings about the maids already come out in Leipzig; presented to all Christians for edifying consideration in general / by one of the former genent Zelander (1722)
  • Detailed description of those ceremonies and special circumstances which are customarily observed today at the death, burial, election and coronation of a Roman Pope: with the curious prophecies of salvation attached. Ertz-Bishop Malachiae and Johannis de Capistrano…; same e. complete directory their current cardinals ... u. with e. Message from d. Life u. Death of Pope Benedicti XIII. / brought to light by Celander (Erfurt: Jungnicol, 1730); in three parts

Secondary literature

  • Olaf Simons: Marteau's Europe or The Novel Before It Became Literature . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2001, ISBN 90-420-1226-9 . Pp. 260-286 and 297-321.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Gerhard Dünnhaupt ( Personalbibliographien zuruck des Barock, 1–6 (Stuttgart, 1990–93), p. 3515) noted that Max von Waldberg identified Gressel as the author of the student in love in 1889 ; It was probably carried out first by Johann Georg Meusel in his encyclopedia of German writers who died between 1750 and 1800 (p. 357f), there, however, without justification. The identification of Christoph Woltereck is rarer and connected with the identification of The Unhappy Barsine Princeßin From Armenia, In a Pleasant Love and Heroes Story / Introduced to the curious reader for the pleasure of the soul / by CELANDER .
  2. ^ The student in love (Cöln: P. Martaux, 1709). pierre-marteau.com, accessed May 5, 2009 . A reprint of this volume was published around 1918 by Hyperion Verlag, Berlin, with an edition of 1,200 copies.
  3. ↑ The wrong world or satyrical novel (Cölln: Peter Marteau Nachgelassene Erben, 1718). pierre-marteau.com, accessed May 5, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Johann Leonhard Rost , show place of the gallant and learned world [...] by Meletaon , Vol. 1 (Nuremberg: J. Chr. Lochner, 1711), Bl. 5 r-v , quoted from Olaf Simons (2001), p. 303 -304.
  5. ↑ Google Books: Digitized version of the reprint 1906 , digitized version of the reprint 1918
  6. ^ Duchess Anna Amalia Library: digitized version
  7. ↑ Can not be verified by the library, mentioned in the preface to the 1906 reprint.