Christoph Friedrich Wedekind

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Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (born April 15, 1709 at Ricklingen Castle near Wunstorf , † October 3, 1777 in Kiel ) was an occasional poet and is known as the author of the Krambambuli song .

He published his poems under the pseudonym Crescentius Koromandel (also "Coromandel"). He was also named Nikolaus Christoph Friedrich Wittekind or Wittekindus , after Wittekind , the hero of the Saxons.

He is a member of the Wedekind zur Horst family , to which the writer Frank Wedekind also belongs.

Life

Christoph Friedrich Wedekind was the son of the pastor Justus Julius Wedekind and Anna Emerantia. He attended school in Hildesheim and Ilfeld . He completed his law studies in Rinteln or Jena , his doctorate as Dr. jur. he obtained in Helmstedt in 1729.

He probably already held the position of court master when he toured France , Italy, and southern Germany . In any case, from 1735 to 1738 he was registered as court master in the town of Altdorf . He tried to get a job in the Regensburg Reichstag, but it was not until 1745 that he found a job as a legal advisor and regimental secretary to Prince Georg Ludwig von Holstein-Gottorp .

Also in 1745 Wedekind published his 102-verse poem in praise of the Krambambuli , the Danzig juniper brandy from the distillery "Der Lachs" . This poem was initially published as a single print in Halle , but Wedekind also included it in his collection of poems published in Danzig in 1747, “Secondary Pastimes in German Poems”. His Krambulist soon found its way into student songbooks and became a popular folk song. Wedekind's further literary work received little attention, the name Koromandel is used once by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in volume 1 of his book Complete Writings .

Christoph Friedrich Wedekind lived in the city of Eutin from 1752 and later moved to Kiel.

Wedekind held the title of court councilor from 1753, when he also joined the German Society in Göttingen .

From 1763 he was in the service of Georg-Ludwig's brother Friedrich August , who was Prince-Bishop of Lübeck.

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Wedekind published the following works under his pseudonym Crescentius Koromandel :

  • The Krambulist. A praise poem about the distilled water in the Lachß zu Dantzig , Halle 1745
  • The chapeau basist, or the traveled Juncker: a story , 1746
  • Second pastime in German poems , Danzig 1747
  • Debt note from a dissolute student to his father , Berlin 1920

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SURNAME Wedekind, Christoph Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coromandel, Crescentius (pseudonym); Wittekind, Nikolaus Christoph Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1709
PLACE OF BIRTH Ricklingen Castle near Wunstorf
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1777
Place of death Kiel