Eduard Jost

Memorial plaque near Limburg

Eduard Jost (born July 21, 1837 in Trier ; † March 15, 1902 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) was a German author who mainly worked in the Palatinate .

Life

Jost was initially a singer and actor. From 1864 he worked as an author for various Palatinate newspapers, such as the Trierische Volkszeitung , the Dürkheimer Anzeiger and the Landauer Eilbote . In 1884 he founded the Palatinate weekly Die Heimat in Kaiserslautern . After stays in Leipzig (1886) and Naumburg (Saale) (1892) he returned to the Palatinate and became editor-in-chief of the Neustadter Zeitung . Jost also wrote fiction, homeland-related works, such as Die Patriotin von Lautern. A brief history of the Palatinate from the last period of the government of Karl Theodor (1884). In 1895 he wrote his memoirs under the title 25 Years Ago.

In 1869, Jost wrote the text of the Palatinate Song in Bad Dürkheim . A memorial was erected next to the ruins of the Limburg monastery .

Works

• Time Poems , 1871
• Christian or Papal? Historical narrative , 1876
• Studio's Rhine trip. A cheerful story from the hairbag era , 1877
• The good emperor Max! Historical narrative , 1879
• Interesting data from the 600 year history of the city of Landau: (From the year 1260 to the end of 1878.) , 1879
• German loyalty. Historical narrative , 1881
• The patriot of Lautern. A brief history of the Palatinate from the last period of the reign of Karl Theodor , 1884
• Monastery and Count's Castle: historical-romantic narrative , 1885
• Landstuhl and Ebernburg: historical narrative , 1885
• A brief history of the city of Kaiserslautern (from 882 to 1884) , 1886
• The daughter of the town clerk von Eilenburg: local history from the Swedish times , 1895
• 25 years ago: true stories from the glorious years 1870 , 1895
• Sickingen's last days: historical account from the heyday of the Sickingen castles Ebernburg and Landstuhl , 1900
• Palatinate stories from old and new times , 1901