Ergo bibamus
Ergo bibamus (Latin: “So let's drink!”) Is the title of a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . It became famous as a student song .
background
Goethe wrote the poem in 1810 for Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz's birthday . In the 4th stanza, "Today's day ... of a special kind" and "divine picture" (= picture of the queen) are hidden references.
Goethe alludes to a mention of the sentence Ergo bibamus in a medieval drinking song from the famous Carmina clericorum song collection . This in turn echoes the use of the Ergo bibamus as a favorite word of Pope Martin IV (1210–1285). According to Francesco di Bartolo's comment on the Divine Comedy , coming from the consistory he is said to have always said: “What we have suffered for the Holy Church of God! Ergo bibamus! "
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The song was set to music by Max Eberwein as early as 1813 . It quickly found its way into collections of student songs, including the Allgemeine Deutsche Kommersbuch from 1858. Ergo bibamus is still one of the most sung student songs today.
The song was also re-recorded in 2002 by the folk group Liederjan as part of the release of an album with Goethe texts. In 1926 the Dutchman Jacobus Joännes van Deinse wrote the Twents folk song ( Er ligt tussen Dinkel en Regge een land ) on the melody of Ergo bibamus , which became the national anthem of the Twente region .
Monument in Jena
In 1986, after three years of planning in the former GDR in Jena, a memorial of the same name was erected on the site of the former university brewery in the fountain next to the anatomy tower, made by the Jena artist Freimut Drewello . Plastic was chosen as the material . The sculpture depicts a beer-drinking student who rides a beer barrel from whose bunghole a devil figure emerges.
The reason for erecting the monument was the commemoration of the academic brewing and licensing law from 1548, the rose privilege of May 21, 1570 for the Zur Rosen bar and the academic brewery that existed from 1594 to 1903. The reference to the Goethe text was also officially mentioned.
In August 2000, the memorial had to be stowed away in a university magazine due to material embrittlement. In 2005, a donation collection took place, with the help of which a bronze cast was to be set up at the entrance to Wagnergasse, a place of student nightlife in Jena and not far from the original location. In the same year, the new set up was made as a bronze cast.
Honor taxon
In 2010 a genus of unicellular protists was first described under the name Ergobibamus cyprinoides . The namesake Martin Kolisko refers to the emotions expressed in it, which fit the Ode I.11 of Horace . This in turn comes from the well-known phrase Carpe diem , which gave the name to the sister genus Carpediemonas and indirectly the parent group of Carpediemonas-like organisms .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Heuer : Goethe - Ergo bibamus . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 3 (1958), p. 87.
- ↑ Anonymus: Carmina clericorum, student songs of the Middle Ages , ed.Domus quaedam vetus, 3rd edition Heilbronn 1877, p. 21
- ↑ quoted from Geflügelte Words , 32nd edition, Berlin 1972, p. 216.
- ↑ Jong Soo Park, Martin Kolisko, Alastair GB Simpson: Cell morphology and formal description of Ergobibamus cyprinoides ng, n. Sp., Another Carpediemonas-like relative of Diplomonads . Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 57 (2010), pp. 520-528.