German Society (Bern)
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The German Society in Bern was founded in 1739 to maintain the German language in Bern .
The theologian Johann Georg Altmann from Zofingen founded the German Society in Bern in January 1739. The forerunner of this was the Neue Gesellschaft , which published the Freytags-Blätlein in Bern from 1721 to 1724 under Altmann's direction . The theologian Gabriel Hürner, the eloquence professor Johann Friedrich Kirchberger, the later minister pastor Johann Jakob Wolf, the island preacher Uriel Freudenberger, Daniel Tscharner, the later governor of Nyon, the historian Alexander Ludwig von Wattenwyl, the later councilor Johann Friedrich belonged to the German Society Freudenreich, Albrecht Herport and Friedrich Sinner . Sinner said of the Society's meetings:
“ Our meetings were scheduled for every Wednesday afternoon from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. and were held on the island with Mr. Freüdenberger, where our library and our own writings were also kept. "
Later, Franz Ludwig Steiger , head of the city library, joined the company , Johann Rudolf von Mülinen, Carl Emanuel von Bonstetten, Johann Rudolf Sinner , Friedrich von Gingins, Venner Johann Rudolf Tillier, Christoph Steiger , Albrecht von Haller and Johann Jacob Spreng .
Johann Jacob Spreng dedicated the edition of Carl Friedrich Drollinger's poems to the German Society in Bern.
See also
literature
- Ulrich Ammon: The German language in Germany, Austria and Switzerland - The problem of national varieties ; Walter de Gruyter, 1995, ISBN 311014753X
- Wolfgang Friedrich von Mülinen : The German Society in Bern and its successors in the 18th century . In: Blätter für Bernische Geschichte, Kunst und Altertumskunde, Vol. 2 (1906), pp. 44–55. doi : 10.5169 / seals-176473
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mülinen 1906, p. 49 doi : 10.5169 / seals-176473