Emanuel Friedli
Emanuel Friedli (born December 14, 1846 in Lützelflüh , † April 5, 1939 in Saanen ) was a Swiss teacher , pastor and dialectologist .
Life
Friedli was born in Lützelflüh as the son of a poor weaver; He was baptized by Jeremias Gotthelf . As a ten-year-old he was sent to the Poor Education Center in Trachselwald Castle , where he stayed for eight years. In contrast to his later fellow sufferer Carl Albert Loosli , Friedli wrote nothing about this time . However, he mentioned to friends that it had been a period of severe suffering.
Like Simon Gfeller and other clever boys from poor families, he was able to complete the Münchenbuchsee teacher seminar and become a teacher. In 1867 he started his first job in the village of Rüegsauschachen . In 1874 he took the Matura and studied at the University of Bern and the University of Geneva theology . In 1880 he became a pastor. In 1881 the parish of Innertkirchen elected him as pastor. In 1884 he moved to Gottstadt near Orpund . There was a serious family crisis there. His marriage to Mathilde, geb. Walder, divorced in 1895, and in 1896 his re-election as parish priest was unsuccessful.
Friedli wanted to go to the psychiatric clinic in Münsingen to treat his depression when friends found him a job at the Swiss Idiotikon in Zurich . Although there had been promised admission to the editorial team, mutual expectations did not come true, which is why he was employed with auxiliary work from 1896 to 1901. Although Friedli later did not like to think back to those six years, he had nevertheless learned the dialectological craft at Idiotikon , which laid the foundation for the written life's work that he then tackled. He moved back to Lützelflüh, where he was accepted into Simon Gfeller's house.
About this time he wrote:
- I am my own son. At the age of 56 I was born in the family caregiver Simon Gfeller uf der Egg near Lützelflüh.
From then on, close friends with Gfeller and Otto von Greyerz , Friedli also began to write.
In 1902 he submitted a project to the government council of the canton of Bern for a four-volume work on Bärndütsch as a mirror of Bernese folklore . With one volume each on Lützelflüh, Grindelwald, Nidau and Guggisberg, four areas were to be examined that differed greatly in terms of dialect, culture and economy. Based on an expert opinion by Otto von Greyerz, the government council approved the subsidy for the work. Over time, seven thick, richly illustrated volumes were created. The first appeared in 1905, the last - about Saanen - in 1927. The entire work was to be crowned with a large Bern German dictionary. The manuscript, which was completed shortly before Friedli's death and containing around 32,000 headwords, was no longer printed, however, since Friedli's mentor von Greyerz also died shortly afterwards, and came with his estate to the Bern Burger Library .
Friedli died in 1939 at the age of 93 in Saanen in the Bernese Oberland. He was buried in his home community of Lützelflüh on the sunny side of the church, next to Jeremias Gotthelf and Simon Gfeller.
Works
His main work
Bärndütsch as a mirror of Bernese folklore, published by A. Francke Verlag, Bern:
- Volume 1 Lützelflüh, 1905
- Volume 2 Grindelwald, 1908
- Volume 3 Guggisberg, 1911
- Volume 4 Ins (Seeland I), 1914
- Volume 5 Twann (Zealand II), 1922
- Volume 6 Aarwangen, 1925
- Volume 7 Saanen, 1927
- Register volume Alphabetical verification for volumes 4 and 5
All volumes were reissued in 1980 by Cosmos-Verlag, Muri bei Bern.
Minor works
- Faith, love, hope. A cycle of religious and moral considerations for quiet hours, 1882
- Agriculture in the Erlach office. Outlined by Emanuel Friedli, A. Francke, Bern 1914 on behalf of the official committee for the delivery of the Swiss National Exhibition in Bern in 1914
literature
- Otto von Gruyerz: Emanuel Friedlis Bärndütsch. In: Heimatschutz = Patrimoine, Vol. 16, 1921, pp. 5–20 ( digitized version ).
- Mario Haldemann: Emanuel Friedli, in: Helvetische Steckbriefe. 47 writers from German-speaking Switzerland since 1800 . Edited by the Zurich Seminar for Literary Criticism with Werner Weber , pp. 65–71, Artemis, Zurich and Munich 1981.
- Ruth Jörg : "A landscape dictionary like none Switzerland has." A forgotten work by Emanuel Friedli , in: Swiss German Dictionary. Swiss Idioticon. Report on 1997, [Zurich] 1998, pp. 17–30.
- Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Friedli, Emanuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Peter Sommer: The two lives of the Bern German researcher Emanuel Friedli. 1846-1939. Biographical information on the 150th birthday, Fischer Media, Münsingen 1996.
- Paul Zinsli: Friedli, Emanuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 457 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Emanuel Friedli's estate in the catalog of the Bern Burger Library
- Publications by and about Emanuel Friedli in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Emanuel Friedli in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ A detailed description of this dictionary can be found in the essay by Ruth Jörg (1998).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friedli, Emanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lützelflüh |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1939 |
| Place of death | Saanen |