Eberhard Werner Happel

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Eberhard Werner Happel, copper engraving by Paul Christian Zink

Eberhard Werner Happel (born August 12, 1647 in Kirchhain , Hessen , † May 15, 1690 in Hamburg ) was a German polymath , translator , novelist and journalist .

Life

The son of an Evangelical Lutheran pastor studied mathematics and medicine from 1663, and later also law in Marburg . In 1668 he went to Magdeburg , later to Hamburg. From 1674 to 1679 he was employed in Holstein , after which he returned to Hamburg and lived there as a teacher and writer. He wrote extensive courtly and gallant historical novels , of which the Academic Novel, written around 1690 , in which student life is educated as a contemporary picture of student life after the Thirty Years War, is of particular interest. He also acted as a translator of Valerius Maximus and author of historical works, especially theRelationes curiosae , one of the earliest German journals with a broad interest in popular science.

Works (selection)

The "Blue Lion". Happels birthplace in Kirchhain
  • The Asiatic Onogambo , 1673
  • So-called Christian potentate war novel , 2 volumes, 1681
  • EG Happelii Greatest Memories of the World or so-called Relationes curiosae , 1683–1691
  • The island mandorel . 1682 - contains the first German translation of Pierre Daniel Huets Traitté de l'origine des romans , 1670
  • Straff and Misfortune Chronick , Hamburg, 1682
  • The Hungarian war novel . 6 volumes, 1685–1697
  • The Italian Spinelli or so-called European history novel to the 1685th year . 4 volumes, 1685–1686
  • The Spanish quintana or so-called European history novel to the 1686th year . 4 volumes, 1686–1687
  • The French cormantress or so-called European history novel to the 1687th year . 4 volumes, 1687–1688
  • Everhardi Guerneri Happelii Mundus Mirabilis Tripartitus, or Wonderful World, in a short Cosmographia. 3 volumes, 1687–1689
  • The Ottoman Bajazet or so-called European history novel to the 1688th year . 4 volumes, 1688–1689
  • African camouflage load . 1689
  • The German Carl or so-called European history novel to the 1689th year . 4 volumes, 1690
  • The academic novel in which student life is trained . 1690 ( digitized version and full text in the German text archive ); ed. GE Scholz, Vienna 1962 (Repr. Of the Ulm 1690 edition)

The other “European history novels” published after Happels death (1690) are no longer from his pen.

Newer editions:

  • Eberhard Werner Happel: The island mandorel (1682). In the appendix: Pierre-Daniel Huets Traitté de l'origine des romans (1670). Ed. U. provided with an afterword v. Stefanie Stockhorst. 687 pp., 2 ills. Berlin 2007 (library of rare texts, vol. 12) [ent. detailed afterword to life and work]
  • Description of the life of Eberhard Werner Happel (1647–1690). From the novel "Der Teutsche Carl". Commented by Gustav Könnecke (1908). With an afterword by Gerd Meyer. Published on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of death. Supplementary reprint. Kirchhain and Marburg 1990

literature

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : “Eberhard Werner Happel (1647–1690)”, in: Personal bibliographies for the prints of the Baroque , Vol. 3. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9105-6 , pp. 1952–1968 (work and Bibliography)
  • Uta Egenhoff: Happel, Eberhard Werner . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 171-173 .
  • Uta Egenhoff: Professional Writing and Journalism in the Early Modern Era . Eberhard Werner Happels 'Relationes Curiosae' in the media network of the 17th century , edition lumière, Bremen 2008 (Press and History - New Articles, 33)
  • Gustav Könnecke: Eberhard Werner Happel . Marburg 1964
  • Gerhard Lock: The courtly-gallant novel of the 17th century by Eberhard Werner Happel . Wuerzburg 1939
  • Flemming Schock: The Text-Kunstkammer: popular collections of knowledge from the Baroque era using the example of EW Happel's “Relationes Curiosae” . Cologne [u. a.]: Böhlau , 2011 (supplements to the archive for cultural history; 68). Zugl .: Augsburg, Univ., Diss., 2009. ISBN 978-3-412-20615-4 ; Review: Holger Böning in: Reports on the History of Science . 35 issue 2, 2012, pp. 165f.
  • Theo Schuwirth: Eberhard Werner Happel (1647–1690), a contribution to the German literary history of the 17th century. Diss. Marburg 1908
  • Herbert Singer:  Happel, Eberhard Werner. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 644 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Norbert Nail: a baroque storyteller. The pedagogy swept with the coats - the biographical riddle around the Philipps University . In: Marburger UniJournal No. 50 (2016), p. 44; No. 51 (2016/2017), p. 48 [Happel as a student in Marburg].
  • Orsolya Lénárt: The Hungarian War Novel: Media, Knowledge and External Perception by Eberhard Werner Happel. Vienna new academic press 2016, ISBN 978-3700319863

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Wikisource: Eberhard Werner Happel  - Sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Happel, Eberhard Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German novelist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchhain , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1690
Place of death Hamburg