Ecce quam bonum

Tutti strophe of Ecce quam bonum (from a Kommers book around 1870)

Ecce quam bonum is a round song . The Latin refrain from which it is named comes from Psalm 133 ("Look how good and beautiful it is when brothers live in harmony with one another.").

The Ecce quam bonum at ETA Hoffmann

When ETA Hoffmann studied at the Albertus University in Königsberg from 1792 to 1795 , there were still no wreaths or country associations . Since the Freemason Friedrich II. Only student orders were allowed at the Prussian universities . Only an ordinance by Friedrich Wilhelm II of July 9, 1798 made possible "the establishment of legal societies and associations among the student youth". It is very likely that Hoffmann took part in the Königsberg public as well as in one or both of the monastic boxes ( Amicist order , order of harmonists ). He set a monument to the idealistic and happy life in the life views of the cat Murr . In the “pubs” the Gaudeamus igitur and other student songs were sung until the “senior” Muzius hit the table with a heavy paw at an advanced hour and announced that the real, genuine consecration song had to be sung, the Ecce quam bonum . The psalm quotation refers to brotherhood .

"Ecce quam bonum, bonum et iucundum / Habitare fratres, fratres in unum."

- Kitty boy song

See also : "Fuchsenzeit in the life views of the cat Murr" in the article Fuchs (student union)

literature

• Hermann Leupold: ETA Hoffmann ... as a student in Königsberg from 1792 to 1795 . In: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 36 (1991), pp. 9-79.

Web links

• Psalm 133

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Psalm 133
2. ↑ H. Leupold (1991), p. 18.
3. ↑ H. Leupold (1991), p. 25.
4. ↑ Körner, Der Convent 1957, p. 82 ff.
5. ^ Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51 (vol. 1). New edition, Munich 2010, p. 44. ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6 . GoogleBooks .
6. ↑ German: See how fine and how lovely it is when brothers are together in harmony.