Christian Wilhelm Kindleben

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Christian Wilhelm Kindleben (also: Kindlebn , pseudonyms Michael Brephobius , Florido ) (born October 4, 1748 in Berlin , † 1785 in Jena or Dresden ) was a German theologian , writer and publicist .

Life

Coming from a poor background, Kindleben was able to study Protestant theology at the Friedrichs University in Halle from 1767 with the help of patrons who recognized his talent . With the support of his teacher Johann Georg Jacobi , he tried his hand at poetry.

After his studies he worked as a country preacher in Kladow, Gatow and Glienicke, but had to give up this activity in 1776 due to his dissolute lifestyle. Kindleben also worked as a teacher. He also worked as a writer and editor. In 1778 he worked for a short time as an assistant to Johann Bernhard Basedow at his Philanthropinum Dessau .

A doctorate in Frankfurt an der Oder failed. After Kindleben received his doctorate in 1779 at the University of Wittenberg as a "Doctor of World Wisdom and the Liberal Arts Magister", he wanted to settle down as a lecturer at the University of Halle. Dismissed from several positions earlier due to his lifestyle, he was also expelled from Halle in 1781. In the last years of his life he made a living as a writer in Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden.

Today Kindleben is mainly known as the author of the student lexicon , one of the most important testimonies of student language and student culture of the 18th century. Many of the expressions documented by Kindleben are now part of everyday German language. His most important work in 1781 was the world's first printed collection of student songs , which he collected from the oral tradition, partially revised and prepared for printing.

Since the student culture was not considered particularly socially acceptable at the time, these two works published in Halle were confiscated by the prorector of the university there and he was therefore expelled. In his student songs he also published the first version of Gaudeamus igitur , the most famous and most important student song in the world, which is documented in print and is still used today . He is considered to be its author, because he had edited the oral tradition heavily.

As a lover of the oldest trade and classic luxury foods, he died at the age of 37.

Fonts (selection)

Student songs - title page of the first printed student songbook in Germany from 1781
  • Student songs: named Florido from the papers left behind by an unfortunate philosopher , Halle (Saale) 1781 ( digitized version of the Munich Digitization Center of the Bavarian State Library )
  • Student Lexicon: named Florido from the papers left behind by an unfortunate philosopher , Halle (Saale) 1781, several editions
  • About the devil's non-existence . Berlin 1776
  • The Devilies of the 18th Century Last Act . Leipzig 1779
  • Mixed poems . Berlin-Leipzig 1779
  • Spiritual poems and songs . No location given in 1781
  • The very latest German orthography of the 18th century . Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig 1779
  • Life and adventures of the sexton in Kummersdorf Willibald Schluterius . Hall 1779
  • About the origin of wigs . Berlin 1779
  • Matthias Lukretius, otherwise called Votius; or story of an unsuccessful and metamorphosed candidate , 2 parts. Hall 1780
  • Emanuel Hartenstein's peregrinating cosmopolitan journey from Berlin via Rostock to Dresden . Hall 1780
  • Florido or story of an unfortunate philosopher . Hall 1781
  • Moral fragments to the knowledge of man, in letters . Without location 1782
  • Time-reducing conversations from Joseph II ... life . Without location 1782
  • The Horned Siegfried, a folk novel . 2 parts. Without location 1783

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kindleben, Christian Wilhelm , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . P. 173.

Web links

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Wikisource: Christian Wilhelm Kindleben  - Sources and full texts
Wikisource: Christian Wilhelm Kindleben  - Sources and full texts (Latin)
personal data
SURNAME Child life, Christian Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brephobius, Michael (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1785
Place of death Jena or Dresden