Ernst Ludwig Rochholz

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Ernst Ludwig Rochholz

Ernst Ludwig Rochholz (born March 4, 1809 in Ansbach , † October 29, 1892 in Aarau ) was a Swiss historian and folklorist of German descent.

Life and work

Rochholz studied law in Munich , where he became a member of the Old Munich Burschenschaft in 1827 and was a member of the Corps Isaria from 1828 . Because of oppositional activities he was de-registered in 1833 and expelled from Munich. A little later he moved to Switzerland, where he initially found a job at the Biel Gymnasium in 1835 and from 1836 worked as a professor of German language and literature at the Aarau Cantonal School . Students whom he had left a lasting mark were among others the later Federal Councilor Emil Welti and the folklorist Jakob Hunziker .

With his radical, liberal conviction and his endeavor to lead the students to independent thinking, Rochholz encountered many kinds of resistance in the canton of Aargau in general and at the canton school in Aarau in particular. Although the cantonal government offered him a certain amount of support, he was finally retired early in 1866. From 1859 to 1887 he was co-editor and then sole editor of "Argovia" , the annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, where he also published numerous articles on linguistic, legal and cultural issues. From his retirement until 1889 he was also the curator of the cantonal antiquarian bookshop , the Aarau antiquity collection in Aarau.

Rochholz was pioneering in the field of legends research and philological and historical folklore . Together with the brothers Grimm and Wilhelm Wackernagel, he was at the beginning of this research direction, which was flourishing at the time. On the other hand, his works as such were soon considered obsolete because he did not publish the traditions in a strictly scientific manner, but in an aesthetically and poetically revised form.

Rochholz received the Doctor honoris causa from the University of Bern in 1884 . His estate is in the Aargau State Archives .

Works

  • Swiss song chronicle. Bern 1835.
  • The new thank you. History of German literature in poetry and prose. Aarau 1838.
  • Wearable. Children's poems. Esslingen 1850.
  • Swiss legends from Aargau. 2 volumes. Aarau 1856.
  • Alemannic children's song and children's game. Leipzig 1857.
  • Natural myths; new Swiss legends. Leipzig 1862.
  • The German essay. Vienna 1866.
  • German beliefs and customs reflected in ancient pagan times. 2 volumes Berlin 1867.
  • Song primer. Stuttgart 1872.
  • Three goddesses: Walburg, Verena and Gertrud as German church saints. Leipzig 1870. (New edition: The Christianization of pagan customs and deities. The Germanic origins of the German church saints and festivals of saints by Walburg, Verena and Gertrud. Leipzig 2007.)
  • The Swiss legend from brother Klaus von Flüe. Aarau 1874.
  • Aargau wisdoms. Aarau 1876.
  • Tell and Geßler in legend and history. 2 volumes. Heilbronn 1876.
  • The Aargauer Geßler in documents. Heilbronn 1877.
  • Wandering legends from the Upper German plague period 1348–50. Aarau 1887.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Ludwig Rochholz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Boesch: Ernst Ludwig Rochholz 1809-1892. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Aargau 1803–1957. (= Argovia. 68/69). Edited by the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau. Sauerländer, Aarau 1958, p. 262.
personal data
SURNAME Rochholz, Ernst Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss legend researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1892
Place of death Aarau , Switzerland