Ernst Wilhelm Ackermann

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Ernst Wilhelm Ackermann (born October 14, 1821 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † June 14, 1846 in Naples ) was a German theologian and poet of late Romanticism .

Life

Ackermann's father Wilhelm August Ackermann was appointed as a teacher at the Katharineum in Lübeck by the director Friedrich August Göring in 1827 , where, according to tradition, as the youngest teacher, he also took over the management of the city ​​library .

The son Ernst Wilhelm became a pupil of the Katharineum in 1832 and finished school at Easter 1840. He gave the speech about Schiller's Don Karlos for the pupils of his year at the graduation ceremony . In addition to metrical translations by English and Greek poets, he had already produced his first own poetic works during his school days.

Ackermann began studying theology at the University of Leipzig and after three semesters moved to the University of Berlin in the fall of 1841 . There he met the fateful circle of friends around the Swiss student Jacob Burckhardt , who had previously met the fiancés Johanna and Gottfried Kinkel and their cockchafer association at the University of Bonn . Together with Carl Remigius Fresenius and Willibald Beyschlag he was included in the cockchafer. After moving to Berlin, Beyschlag and Burckhardt founded a branch of the cockchafer, called Mau , with the brothers Eduard and Hermann Schauenburg . Ackermann became a member of this association. The friends were impressed by him and his personality. Beyschlag dealt with Ackermann while he was so uncanny that Burckhardt avoided him like others and said to Beyschlag on one of the night walks home on the bridge on Schiffbauerdamm "We'll say one day that we knew him." From the previous evening When he left in August 1843, an impressive description of the fire at the Unter den Linden State Opera has been preserved in a letter to his father in Lübeck. In autumn 1843 Beyschlag and Ackermann arrived in Bonn and Ackermann became a member of the cockchafer there. Kinkel describes:

“Ackermann was a fanatic. Although a theologian, he had developed an extreme, wild pantheism , of which he became a prophet in his writings. These writings consisted of fantastic short stories and fairy tales, which in the most peculiar way united the most vividly colored realism with a nebulous world of spirits: If I should bring you an example from literature that is at least somewhat related, then I should like to remind you first of Hoffmann's better stories, only with Ackermann the struggle and pain of our presence raged far wilder. "

Because of the foundation festival of the cockchafer in 1844, Ackermann was remembered by his friends as an enthusiast who read from his fairy tales.

Shortly afterwards he traveled via Switzerland to Italy, which he traveled all the way to Sicily. On the way back, he fell passionately into a married woman in Rome. Although he first returned to Lübeck in 1845, he was drawn back to Italy. His Berlin teacher Raupach arranged for him to work as an educator with a wealthy Russian family who lived in Italy. In the winter of 1845 he was in Rome and Florence. In March 1846 he moved to Naples, where he succumbed to a typhoid fever in June. Burckhardt, who wanted to meet him in Naples, was four days late. He dedicated the poem In Neapel to Ackermann . Ackermann was buried on the Cimitero degli Inglesi (Naples) ( Cimitero acattolico di Santa Maria delle Fede ).

Works

  • From the poetic estate of Ernst Wilhelm Ackermann. Published by the father of the eternal. Preface by Ernst Raupach . Leipzig: Reichenbach, 1848.

literature

  • Heinrich Schneider: The Lübeck Ackermann - A forgotten poet's fate. In: The car . 1932, pp. 31-42.
  • Ackermann, Ernst Wilhelm. In: New Lübeck CVs. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2009, ISBN 978-3-529-01338-6 , pp. 15-17.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He wrote the portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kniller in relation to the art education of his time. Leipzig 1845.
  2. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907), No. 373
  3. ↑ Ackermanns Kolleghefte from Leipzig and Berlin are handed down in the Lübeck city ​​library as Ms. theol. germ. 131-139, after Paul Hagen : The German theological manuscripts of the Lübeckische Stadtbibliothek. (Publications of the City Library of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1,2), Lübeck 1922, p. 85f
  4. ↑ Beyschlag in his memoirs quoted from Schneider, p. 33ff. (34)
  5. ↑ Richard Sander (Ed.): Gottfried Kinkel. Autobiography 1838–1848. Bonn 1931.
personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Ernst Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and poet of the late Romantic period
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1846
Place of death Naples