Ernst Friedrich Sturm

Ernst Friedrich Sturm (born March 23, 1829 in Hüsingen , † January 10, 1876 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German high school professor, storyteller, poet and translator.

Life

Sturm began his education at the community school in Schopfheim and continued it at the grammar school in Basel and later at the pedagogy there . In 1847 he became a student at the Lyceum in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1848 he became a member of the Arminia Freiburg fraternity and in 1851 was a co-founder of the Teutonia fraternity . In 1848 he took part in the battle on the Scheideck on the part of the irregulars . After the uprising was put down, Sturm fled to Switzerland. The Freiburg Court of Justice convicted him in absentia for high treason. He no longer took part in the Baden Revolution . Until 1851 he was enrolled at the University of Bern . He dealt mainly with philosophy, old German grammar and physics. When he registered for conscription in the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1851 , he was initially imprisoned for six weeks as a former militant. After the Mannheim Court of Justice had declared him suspicious on May 12, 1851 and the old Freiburg judgment was revised, he studied philology in Freiburg for another year. In 1952 he moved via Lausanne to Nice , where he became a professor at the Lycée impériale and married in 1859. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 led to hostility against the Germans in Nice, which led him back home. Sturm himself was inspired to write patriotic poems by the German unification of 1871. After a three-year stay as a teacher in Wiesbaden , he received a professorship at the grammar school in Freiburg, where he taught French until his death in 1876.

Sturm also worked as a narrator, poet and translator. He collected sagas which he repeated in verse. He published his freedom songs under the pseudonym Erich Freimund . During his stay in Nice, Sturm also translated literary works from French and English into German, including works by William Wordsworth and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . There are also individual literary translations from Flemish and Swedish by him. After his return to Baden, he published his poems in particular in the local newspaper Alb-Bote, which was published in Waldshut .

Works

• A selection of Ernst Friedrich Sturm's posthumous poems and translations. Waldshut, carpenter, 1878

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 565-566.
• Friedrich von Weech (Ed.): Ernst Friedrich Sturm. Taken from the Karlsruher Zeitung 1876, no. 18. In: Badische Biografien , Third Part, Karlsruhe 1881, pp. 190–191 Digitized version of the Baden State Library .
• Helmut Bender: Ernst Friedrich Sturm - Baden Revolution Loerrach. Poet, translator - revolutionary and teacher. In: Badische Heimat , Volume 60, Issue 2/1980, pp. 265–269. (with examples of his poetry)
• Helmut Bender: From the Ganggalaris in Steinen. In: Das Markgräflerland , issue 1/1983, pp. 163–166. Digitized version of the Freiburg University Library

Web links

• Entry Sturm, Ernst Friedrich on Discover regional studies online - leobw - here incorrectly called Hüfingen as the place of birth instead of Hüsingen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Gundermann: The members of the old Freiburg fraternity (1816-1851). P. 27 [1]
2. ↑ s. Ernst Friedrich Bühler: Stones. Chronicle of a village. Published by the municipality of Steinen, printer Brothers Weber, 1982, Lörrach. P. 281
3. ↑ s. Bender p. 265
4. ↑ s. Bender p. 265
5. ↑ s. Ernst Friedrich Bühler: Stones. Chronicle of a village. Published by the municipality of Steinen, printer Brothers Weber, 1982, Lörrach. P. 281
6. ^ Karl Gundermann: The members of the old Freiburg fraternity (1816-1851). P. 27 [2]
7. ↑ Harald Lönnecker: Profile and importance of the fraternities in Baden in the first half of the 19th century. PDF
8. ↑ s. Bender pp. 268/269