Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer
Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer (born August 12, 1805 in Liebenwerda ; † May 6, 1844 in Dresden ) was a German writer, literary historian, aesthetician and philosopher.
Life
He was the first child of the Electoral Saxon inspector Ernst Gottlieb Echtermeyer and his wife Theodora Auguste, daughter of the Electoral Saxon Chamber Commissioner and judicial officer Johann Alexander Bielitz from Liebenwerda.
Echtermeyer studied law in Halle (Saale) , but moved to Berlin and studied philosophy and German philology there. In the meantime, Echtermeyer worked as a teacher at the grammar school in Zeitz , received his doctorate in 1831 and was then appointed to the Royal Pedagogical School of the Francke Foundations in Halle as a senior teacher. Together with his colleague Arnold Ruge , he published what was at times the most important organ of the Young Hegelians , the Halle Yearbooks for Science and Art , in which his Protestant liberalism was polemically defended against “ romanticism ” and “romanticizing” literature. As a perfect counter-image against the tendencies worthy of criticism of his time, Echtermeyer - especially in the essay Protestantism and Romanticism - presented the art of Goethe and Schiller . Heinrich Heine called the Halle yearbooks “terrible manslaughter sheets”.
During his time in Halle, he lost his left arm to an amputation . Echtermeyer was harassed by the censorship authorities and relocated to Dresden at Easter 1841 to avoid persecution . Together with Arnold Ruge he edited the German Musenalmanach (1840). With Moritz Seyffert he wrote the anthology of modern Latin poets (Halle 1834–35, 2 parts) and Carmina aliquot Goethii et Schilleri latine reddita (Halle 1833), with Ludwig Henschel and Karl Joseph Simrock sources of Shakespeare in novels, fairy tales and sagas (Berlin 1831, 3 vol .; second edition edited by Simrock alone, Bonn 1870, 2 vol.). His sample collection of German poems for learned schools (Halle 1836) was until the end of the 20th century the most important German collection of poems, which shaped the taste and style of many generations of pupils. (Edited by Benno von Wiese 1981, most recently by Elisabeth K. Paefgen and Peter Geist 2010.)
Echtermeyer died in Dresden in 1844 and was buried in the Elias cemetery in field C 8-27. In Bad Liebenwerda , the Echtermeyer-Gymnasium was named after him until 2007.
literature
- Jürgen Lübbert: Echtermeyer, Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 254 f.
- Kate Lorenzen: Echtermeyer, Ernst Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 272 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Renate Sachse: Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 28, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-413-7 , Sp. 494-507.
- Elisabeth Katharina Paefgen : The "Echtermeyer" (1836-1981) - an anthology of poems for use in secondary schools. Presentation and evaluation of its history in a literary and cultural-historical context . Frankfurt am Main: Lang 1990. (Contributions to the history of German teaching 2) ISBN 3-631-42482-5
- Martin Hundt : Theodor Echtermeyer (1805-1844). Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-63840-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer in the Internet Archive
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical News - Echtermeyer, Ernst Theodor . In: Theodor Echtermeyer, Robert Heinrich Hiecke (ed.): Selection of German poems for learned schools . 8th edition. Bookshop of the orphanage, Halle 1854, p. 930.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Echtermeyer, Ernst Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Echtermeyer, Theodor E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liebenwerda |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1844 |
| Place of death | Dresden |