Christian Peter Hansen

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Christian Peter Hansen
Portrait of CP Hansen by CL Jessen (1882)

Christian Peter Hansen (born August 28, 1803 in Westerland ; † December 9, 1879 in Keitum ), often known as C. P. Hansen , was a teacher, draftsman and chronicler of the island of Sylt .

Life

C. P. Hansen was the son of the sexton and navigation teacher Jap Peter Hansen , who co-founded Frisian-language literature with the publication of the play Der Geitzhals on the island of Silt (1809) and who lived in Keitum from 1820. Christian Peter Hansen was a teacher at the then Keitum elementary school ; In addition, he collected numerous legends, stories and stories from the island at a young age. His collection on the history and culture of the island of Sylt quickly became known nationwide. From a correspondence with Theodor Storm it emerges that he sent Storm numerous notes on the Sylt legends at his request.

In 1856 his chronicle of the Frisian Uthlande was published. In it he claimed that the Frisians had used the saying " Lewer duad üs Slaaw " as early as 1252 during the battle of Oldenswort . There is no source for this, but Hansen still helped to popularize the saying in North Friesland .

In 1859 his book Wegweiser für Badende in Westerland was published ; this work can be regarded as the first travel guide for the still young bathing life on the island of Sylt. Numerous other works and publications on the history and culture of the island of Sylt followed and ensured that CP Hansen is still regarded as the most important chronicler of the island of Sylt. In addition, Hansen was one of the re-founders of the ancient tradition of biike distilling on the island.

In 1869 CP Hansen took part in the Schleswig-Holstein State Industrial Exhibition in Altona and presented fine knitwear. In doing so, he contributed to making these Sylt handicrafts known. In addition, he presented exhibits from his fossil collection and trigonometry scales made of boxwood that his father had made and received a bronze medal for his contributions to this exhibition.

Drawing, he roamed his home island of Sylt and made numerous small landscapes and sea representations, several of which were made as lithographs to sell to tourists. "With these drawings, as with his writings, with which he wanted to preserve the old Sylt for posterity, Hansen also promoted the emerging tourism." ( Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer in: Künstlerinsel Sylt ).

Hansen's former home in Keitum now bears witness to the living culture of the time as the Museum Altfriesisches Haus , and there are also numerous relics of the chronicler.

Gravestone in the St. Severin church cemetery in Keitum

Honors

  • The CP Hansen Prize has been awarded since 1960 for the preservation of Sylt customs .
  • The street on which the former elementary school Keitums was located is called C.-P.-Hansen-Allee

Exhibitions

Fonts (selection)

  • The island of Sylt in historical and statistical terms (1845)
  • Chronicle of the Frisian Uthlande (1856)
  • Frisian legends and stories (1858)
  • The tour guide on the island of Sylt. A guide for bathers in Westerland. (1859, reprint 1980)
  • The Sylter Frisian. Historical notes, arranged chronologically [...] (1860)
  • Old Frisian catechism in the Sylt dialect [...] (1862)
  • The Schleswig Wadden Sea and the Frisian Islands (1865)
  • The seaside resort of Westerland on Sylt and its inhabitants (1868) pdf u. epub of the 1870 edition
  • Legends and stories of the Sylt Frisians [...] (1875)
  • The Frisian Halfjunkers and their deeds and adventures (1875)

literature

  • Dörte Ahrens, Albert Panten , Ommo Wilts: CP Hansen - A life for Sylt . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2015, ISBN 978-3-89876-766-8 .
  • The discovery of a landscape. Sylt in the 19th century. Drawings by CP Hansen and a description of the island by P. Hansen ; [on the occasion of the exhibition Sylt im Sinn. The chronicler CP Hansen from November 10, 2013 to February 23, 2014 in the Sylter Heimatmuseum in Keitum]; Texts Albert Panten and Dörte Ahrens as well as the board of the Söl'ring Foriining with Maike Ossenbrüggen, Jürgen Ingwersen and Claas-Erik Johannsen; Editors Dörte Ahrens. Publisher Söl'ring Foriining e. V., 2013, ISBN 978-3-925735-16-5 .
  • Harry Kunz, Thomas Steensen (Ed.): Hansen, Christian Peter. In: The new Sylt Lexicon . 2nd greatly expanded edition. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2007, ISBN 978-3-529-05518-8 , pp. 142-144.
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Christian Peter Hansen . In: Artist Island Sylt. Boyens, Heide 2005, ISBN 3-8042-1171-2 , pp. 56-58.
  • Manfred Wedemeyer : CP Hansen - the teacher from Sylt . Schleswiger Verlagshaus, Schleswig 1982, ISBN 3-88242-070-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Bülck: Lewer duad üs Slaw - History of a political catchphrase. In: Between Eider and Wiedau. Heimatkalender Nordfriesland 1979, Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum undated, without ISBN, p. 163.
personal data
SURNAME Hansen, Christian Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hansen, CP (short form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chronicler of the island of Sylt and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerland
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1879
Place of death Keitum