Christian Julin-Fabricius

Jens Christian Julin-Fabricius (born April 20, 1802 in Uetersen ( Holstein ), † June 17, 1875 in Copenhagen ) was a German-Danish-Swedish poet , educator , translator and author of books for young people .

Life

Søbygård manor house

Julin-Fabricius was born as the son of Ove Fabricius (1762–1821), owner of the Søbygård estate on the island of Ærø , and his wife Anna Cathrine nee. Nissen (1781–1849) born in Uetersen. He attended the scholars' school in Plön and from 1816 to 1820 the grammar school in Odense . At the age of 19, Julin-Fabricius studied modern philosophy and humanism , German and French literature and language at the University of Copenhagen until 1823 . He then traveled to Belgium, France, Switzerland and Italy for scientific purposes from 1823 to 1826, trying not only to gain an excellent knowledge of the languages ​​and their literature, but also to acquire a knowledge of the world and people. Then Julin-Fabricius returned to Denmark and drew attention to himself as a publicist and editor of the Skanderborg Amtstidende (1828–1831). Afterwards he worked as a teacher at the Metropolitan School in Copenhagen and studied again at the University of Copenhagen, but gave up his studies again in order to devote himself to the actual direction of his previous endeavors, the pedagogical subject, which he met at the Metropolitan School in Copenhagen and the educational institute “Barnängen “Taught in Stockholm.

After the death of his first wife Magdalene geb. Aagaard (1803–1839) married Julin-Fabricius in Gothenburg in 1842, his second wife Elisabeth Sophia geb. Andrén (1811–1870) and lived with their children in Copenhagen and Stockholm, where he wrote his work “Tydsk Grammar” in both languages for the Danish and Swedish schools of scholars . In recognition of this work, he received his doctorate in philosophy on July 29, 1846 from the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He became a Swedish citizen on December 17, 1846.

In Denmark, several best-selling original works appeared under his pseudonym Jens Julin-Fabricius, such as The Child Robbery in Sweden (1837) and poems , as well as translations from German and Swedish, including the novels by Fredrika Bremer . He also translated Danish, Norwegian and Swedish works into German. Professionally, Julin-Fabricius continued his educational work as a senior teacher at the grammar school in Hadersleben and was simultaneously editor of the Nordschleswig'sche Zeitung in 1848 and 1849 . As a result of the turmoil of the Schleswig-Holstein War (1848–1851), he gave up his position as a teacher and moved to Hamburg-St. Pauli . There he founded the Norddeutsche Jugendzeitung , which later became the Deutsche Jugendzeitung . 1861 Julin-Fabricius was sent to the University in Uppsala called.

Works (selection)

• Tysk grammar to Brug for lærde Skoler and higher Underviisningsanstalter udarbejdet efter de bedste and nyeste Kilder (Copenhagen 1835)
• Tysk grammatik till Bruk för Högre Lärdomsskolor och Undervisningsanstalter (Stockholm 1837)
• Child robbery in Sweden (Stockholm 1837)
• Translation: Fredrika Bremer: Nabofamilierne (1837)
• Translation: Carl Jonas Love Almqvist : Colombine eller Duen fra Skaane (1837)
• Translation: Fredrika Bremer: Hemmet eller familje-sorger och fröjder (1839)
• Translation: Emilie Flygare-Carlén : Fosterbröderne (1840)
• Translation: Maurits Christopher Hansen : Polycarps supplerede Manuskripter eller en Slægts Historie. (1844)
• Translation: Magnus Jacob Crusenstolpe : Russian court stories (work about Catherine the Great) (1855)
• Translation: Fredrika Bremer: Presidentens döttrar (1834) (The daughters of the President. Story of a governess, 1862)
• Nytt, full and lättfattligt declination system for Tyska språkets substantiver (1867)
• Norddeutsch Jugendzeitung (weekly newspaper for the education of the heart and mind for adolescent youth of both sexes) (1853–1855)
• Deutsche Jugendzeitung (weekly newspaper for the education of the heart and mind for the growing youth of both sexes) ,
  later (for instruction and entertainment for the youth and for adults. Dedicated to Germany's sons and daughters) (1856-)

Literature and Sources

• JA Finsterlin: Gallery of Famous Pedagogues, Honored School Men, Youth and Folk Writers and Contemporary Composers in Biographies and Biographical Sketches , Volumes 1–2 (1859)
• Hans Schröder Lexicon of Hamburg Writers to the Present (Hamburg 1857)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Genealogy