Diederich Georg Babst

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Diederich Georg Babst (born July 24, 1741 in Schwerin , † April 21, 1800 in Rostock ) was a German writer .

Life

Babst attended the cathedral school in Schwerin. During the Seven Years' War his parents fled to Lübeck , where he attended the local high school. During this time he was already composing poems and texts on existing melodies, which made him famous. From April 1765 onwards he studied law at the University of Rostock . After passing his exams he got a position as procurator at the municipal court, later as secretary of the citizenship. He also worked as a notary. In this humble position, he earned a reputation for being righteous .

His first literary work, De Rekrut , a poetic description of the life of a soldier based on letters from the recruit and his bride, appeared anonymously in 1788. In a further work, the feast of the Hundermännerkollegium in Rostock was described. He then wrote a large number of smaller poems, some of which were published in various magazines, some of which were only available and published in manuscripts. These poems in Low German appeared in 1790 in the three-part work Allerhant snaksche Saken tum Tietverdriew . This became one of the most famous books of poetry published by Babst.

Babst's lyric work often had a critical moralizing character and described, among other things, the atmospheric way of life and way of life of his fellow Rostock people.

Babst was a well-known writer to a broad readership at the time, and even Johann Wolfgang von Goethe valued Babst as a “natural and national poet”. Goethe wrote about his lyrical work in his diary, among other things, "It is delightful to see how a man, caught up in the bourgeois being himself, rises above it through ingenious contemplation". Goethe even described Babst's occasional poems as "priceless".

In his works as in life, Babst stood for the frugal, decent way of life, which he described in the poem Dat Fack as his "Fack" (subject) in a nutshell.

meaning

From today's point of view, Babst is still significant as a forerunner of Low German writers such as Fritz Reuter or John Brinckman and is considered the first Mecklenburg dialect poet of modern times.

Another significance of Babst lies in his descriptions of the traditional Rostock customs and festivals of his time, which today would hardly be reproducible in detail without his writings. Babst was not uncritical about all the traditional institutions in his hometown, but he viewed them with a certain equanimity: "Dat weet ick just not, alleen de leewen Ollen / De häwwen dat jo so before hünnert year 'all hollen."

Works

  • De intog that our lord Duke Friederich Franz brought with Sine leewe Fru wife Louise to Rostock. In three Schriewels from his recruit to his Greth up the country. Müller, Rostock 1788. ( digitized version )
  • Ehn start Naschrapels van dem Rostock intog with the Affscheht un Testement by the Hollänschen March. Müller, Rostock 1788. ( digitized version )
  • Still Söß Schriewels to de annern dree, where dat to Rostock with the Intog toletzt aflopen: from the sülbigen Recruten to his even younger lewe Greth up the country. Müller, Rostock 1788. ( digitized version )
  • De funckelhagel niege Niejahrs wish vär all de goden Minschen. Müller, Rostock 1793. ( digitized version )
  • Dat grote Fest van Peter un Pagel, ate the four Mecklenbörger princes de Brook-Fischers visited. Müller, Rostock 1793. ( digitized version )
  • The wonderful king shot to Rostock, ate the four lewen state princes with pods and the Arw prince king wurt. Müller, Rostock 1793. ( digitized version )
  • Rostock's citizen joys at the high birth festival of Sr. ruling Duke. Transmitted by Friederich Franz. Müller, Rostock 1794. ( digitized version )
  • Carefully read Pladdütsche poems. Müller, Rostock, 1812. ( digitized version )
  • All sorts of snaky saks tum Tiedverdriew, awers truths, ümm sick meeto to speegeln in our Modersprak '. Stiller, Rostock and Berlin 1843. ( digitized )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Registration of Diederich Georg Babst in the Rostock matriculation portal

Web links


personal data
SURNAME Babst, Diederich Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1800
Place of death Rostock