Doctor Omniscient (Brothers Grimm)
Doctor omniscient is a swank ( ATU 1641). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at number 98 (KHM 98). There the title Doctor Omniscient was written .
content
A poor farmer drives a load of wood into town with two oxen and sells it to a doctor for two talers. When he sees how well the doctor is living, he decides to become one too. He buys an ABC book and calls himself from then on Doctor All-Knowing . When a large sum of money is stolen from a rich man, he is called to investigate the theft. Shortly afterwards he is sitting with his wife to eat with the robbed. When a servant serves the first course, the doctor omnisciently says to his wife: "This is the first", and means first gear. However, the servant who was involved in the theft thinks that the doctor is suggesting that he is the first thief. The same spectacle is repeated twice more, whereupon all three servants confess their misdeeds to the doctor. They show him the hiding place, with the request not to reveal them. The doctor now gives the rich man his money back, but does not say who stole it. In this way, he gets a generous reward from both sides and becomes a famous man.
Grimm's note
Grimm's note noted from Zwehrn (by Dorothea Viehmann ). A Low German variant could not be fully told to them. In another, according to the evening paper 1819, No. 171 , a hungry charcoal burner has three days dining with the king to find out thieves, if not, he should die. Every evening at the last drink he says: “That's the one!” Etc. Other places: The magazine of the Kasseler Bote 1822 No. 51 ; von Weigand in Mannhardt's Zeitschrift für deutsche Mythologie 3, 36-46 ; Straparola 13, 6; Persian in Kisseh-Khun p. 44 .
parody
In Janosch's parody, the farmer's wife memorizes the doctor's most frequent sentences, making her richer and more popular.
literature
- Grimm, Brothers: Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 491-493. 19th edition, Artemis & Winkler Verlag, Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf and Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
- Grimm, Brothers: Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. S. 191, 484. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Janosch: Doctor omniscient. In: Janosch tells Grimm's fairy tale. Fifty selected fairy tales, retold for today's children. With drawings by Janosch. 8th edition. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim and Basel 1983, ISBN 3-407-80213-7 , pp. 76-82.