Enno Wilhelm Hektor

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Enno Wilhelm Hektor
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Enno Wilhelm Hektor (born November 21, 1820 in Dornum ( East Frisia ), † January 31, 1874 in Nuremberg ) was a German writer. He wrote socially critical books, poems and plays and also published in the Low German language. His best-known work is the Heimatlied der Ostfriesen In Oostfreesland is't best .

Life

Hector wrote fairy tales and poetry from an early age . From around 1842 he began to publish High German poems in the magazines "Frisia" and "Ostfriesisches Unterhaltungsbuch". In the year of the bourgeois revolution of 1848 , Hector published the political-satirical magazine “Der Vagabund”. In 1849 he left Dornum. The song In Ostfreesland is't best was written when he stayed in Dernau an der Ahr for a few weeks in 1850 .

In October 1850, Hektor arrived in Nuremberg , where he lived for two years and made up for his Abitur. Then he plunged into a crisis that culminated in a suicide attempt. On the advice of friends, he changed his place of residence and went to Munich in May 1852, where he began to study Old German and Old Norse languages. He passed his doctoral examination in German studies in 1856.

In 1857 Hektor became library secretary of the Germanic Museum in Nuremberg . From 1860 he had closer contact with Ludwig Feuerbach , whose philosophical views he apparently shared. Until his death he worked a. a. participated in the monthly magazine "Die deutscher Mundarten". He died on January 31, 1874 and found his final resting place in the Rochus Cemetery in Nuremberg.

Works (selection)

  • Songs from Schilda. Schuster, Leer 1978, ISBN 3-7963-0142-8 (unchanged reprint of the Hamburg 1847 edition with a bibliography in the appendix).
  • Harm Düllwuttel un all, what's more. 2nd Edition. Schuster, Leer 1972, ISBN 3-7963-0029-4 (new ed. By W. van Ness; unchanged reprint of the 2nd edition Emden 1906).
  • The vagabond. Schuster, Leer 1978, ISBN 3-7963-0067-7 (unchanged reprint of the Emden 1848 edition).

literature

  • Joachim Böger: Enno Wilhelm Hektor - vagabond and citizen fright . In: Lower Saxony. Magazine for home and culture. Vol. 98, 1998, issue 2, pp. 79-81 ISSN  0176-3385 .
  • Joachim Böger: Enno Wilhelm Hektor . In: Biographical Lexicon for East Frisia . Volume 1. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 1993, ISBN 3-925365-75-3 , pp. 181-184 ( online , PDF).
  • Albrecht Janssen: Enno Hektor. In memory of his 100th birthday. In: The tide. 4, 1920, pp. 330-335.
  • Heinrich Schmidt: Enno Hektor. and his "vagabond". In: The Vagabond. A moon leaf for all of the world. Reprint, Leer 1978, pp. 199-214.

Web links

Wikisource: Enno Hektor  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Joachim Böger: Enno Wilhelm Hektor . 1993, p. 2 (PDF).
  2. ^ Joachim Böger: The Low German Literature in East Frisia from 1600-1870. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-631-44444-3 , p. 190.
  3. ^ Gustav Radbruch; Arthur Kaufmann (Ed.): Complete edition. 6. Feuerbach. CF Müller, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8114-6996-7 , p. 572.
personal data
SURNAME Hektor, Enno Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of socially critical books, poems and plays
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornum ( East Frisia )
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1874
Place of death Nuremberg