A funeral oration from 1609

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Hugo Bürkner (1854):
Georg Rollenhagen

A funeral oration from 1609 is a historical novella by Wilhelm Raabe , which was written at the beginning of September 1862 and was published in the same year in Horn's monthly “Die Maje” by Julius Niedner in Wiesbaden. The book was published in 1865 by Otto Janke in Berlin as part of the “Ferne Voices” collection. Raabe experienced reprints in 1896, 1901 and 1905. According to Meyen, a review from 1961 and 1962 was known in Japanese until 1973 .

In his funeral address to Georg Rollenhagen , Raabe refers to a “brief funeral sermon” by Aaron Burckhart, given on Ascension Day 1609 in the St. Ulrich Church in Magdeburg. The author adopts passages from the preacher about Ortisei and also uses the language at the beginning of the 17th century in his own text sections.

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Events from the life of the deceased are told. For example, in 1542, in the year little Georg was born, the sick father in Bernau was disturbed by the screaming of his child. So the mother drags her Georg everywhere with her. On the rain next to the grain field, she places it on the reapers' jackets and goes into the field. A wolf sneaks up on Georg. The mother can just drive away the predator. In 1550 the little one, suffering from the plague , was "kept in isolation". The boy survived.

From 1558 the scholars wandered through Leipzig and Halle to Mansfeld . For the first time in his life, Georg interferes in the Pfaffenkrieg with a little polemic . He takes sides for the local school principal Josias Seidelius against Superintendent Cölius . Georg has to flee on his pamphlet. Fortunately, he has a letter of recommendation in his pocket for Mr. Wiegand , preacher in St. Ulrich in Magdeburg. From Magdeburg, Georg went to Wittenberg in 1560 and, after completing his studies, was appointed rector of the St. Johannes Protestant School in Halberstadt in 1563. In 1565 Georg returned to Wittenberg. He wants to become a master. The time has come in 1567. Georg receives his doctorate in philosophy. During the years in Wittenberg, Georg began to translate the " frog mouse war " into German .

Wandering life comes to an end when Dr. Franziskus Pfeil takes up the position of Vice-Rector in the Magdeburg City School in the same year. At his rector's table, he meets his daughter Euphemia. The couple married on September 20, 1568. The woman died in 1580 after giving birth to six children. Only a girl and a boy survive the father. Georg gets his second wife, Magdalena Kindelbruck, from Isenhagen Abbey . On February 5, 1581 he married Magdalena, the daughter of a soldier from the area east of Metz . The second wife gives him six children. Four of them stay alive. One is Gabriel - later a poet like his father. “Who has ever buried a poet?” Asks the narrator, surpassing one of the comforting words of the corpse preacher Aaron Burckhart to the mourning community: “He is now happy, his mouth is full of laughter and is full of great joy like a dreaming.”

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Preacher Aaron Burckhart says of Georg Rollenhagen: “He was a respectable man in body and person, knew how to speak cum autoritate and gravitate, and knew how to maintain his authority with seriousness. Had a wonderfully quick genius, was a fine theologus, ... "

expenditure

First edition

  • Distant voices. Stories by Wilhelm Raabe 306 pages. Otto Janke, Berlin 1873 (contains: The black galley . An eulogy from 1609. The last right. Elder blossom)

Used edition

literature

  • Aaron Burckhart: ΑΝΑΛΥΣΑΙ Roles Hagianum. That is: Blessed Farewell, The Weyland Venerable and Hochgelarten Lord, M. Georgii Rollenhagii […] Authored: In a short corpse sermon […] By Aaronem Burckhart, preacher to S. Ulrich. Printed in Magdeburg, by Christoff Nacken, in laying Ambrosii Kirchner. Anno 1609
  • Fritz Meyen : Wilhelm Raabe. Bibliography. 438 pages. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973 (2nd edition). Supplementary volume 1, ISBN 3-525-20144-3 in Karl Hoppe (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works. Braunschweig edition . 24 vols.
  • Cecilia von Studnitz : Wilhelm Raabe. Writer. A biography. 346 pages. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-0778-6

annotation

  1. ↑ May 28, 1609

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ von Studnitz, p. 310, entry 20
  2. ↑ Edition used, p. 430, 14th Zvu
  3. ↑ Edition used, p. 431
  4. ↑ Meyen, p. 338, entry 2824: Tatsuji Hirata, Kwanseigakuin University
  5. ↑ Edition used, p. 68, 15. Zvo
  6. ↑ Edition used, p. 82, 7th Zvu
  7. ↑ Edition used, p. 81, 7th Zvu
  8. ↑ Edition used, p. 73, 10th Zvu