Fausten's infernal compulsion in the Angermühle in Leipzig
Faustens Höllenzwang in the Angermühle in Leipzig is the common title of a fabulous story by the Arnstadt scholar, author and enlightener Johann Gottfried Gregorii about Faust .
The story appeared under the title "Was sich Anno 1707. zu Leipzig in the Anger-Mühle with D. Johannis Faustens Höllenzwang zu borne" in 1712 in Gregorii's book The curieuse and scholarly HISTORICUS . The book was under the pseudonym MELIS ANTES in Erfurt laid Publishing ram heirs and appeared in Frankfurt and Leipzig . The printer was Johann Michael Funcke .
Author and history
At the beginning of the 18th century, the German geographer and polymath Johann Gottfried Gregorii alias MELISSANTES collected, discussed and published occult and mysterious stories in addition to the geographical knowledge of the time. In curieusen And learned historicus he began in 1712 with Faust Hell forced , accompany journalistic topics to bring philosophical discourses, biographies and news about historical and contemporary events, these collected stories in German-speaking among the people. In addition to his unique geographical information system for citizens, farmers and the youth, he left behind some texts with the recording of legends, which u. a. Christian August Vulpius , the Brothers Grimm and Ludwig Bechstein provided ideas and material. In addition to unprinted manuscripts and popular stories, he also used the writings of other authors such as books by Johannes Praetorius or Georg Henning Behrens as sources .
In 1715 in the curieusen OROGRAPHIA , one of the first German special encyclopedias, he published the extracted core content of the well-known sagas about the devil's pact, Dr. Faust, the driving ointment, the flight with the devil and the seduction of women by Satan.
Before the appearance of the German collections of sagas known today , the writer Achim von Arnim, who was friends with Jacob Grimm , named MELISSANTES as an important source of legends in a letter in 1809, which is hardly surprising, since MELISSANTES with several of his books written in German on the dissemination and popularization of sagas and legends such as z. B. Emperor Friedrich in Kyffhäuser , Wilhelm Tell , the Pied Piper of Hameln or the story of the Heckthaler contributed. In 1829, at the age of 80, Goethe was still concerned with the Renewed Antiquity (2nd edition 1721) by MELISSANTES.
Content of the story
The Angermühle, the main location of the action, is one of the historic mills in Leipzig . In 1707 the apprentice Johann Georg C. tried using a hand-written copy of Faust Hell coercion and a divining rod , the Satan to summon. With the help of incantations and ritual acts, the prince of Hell is supposed to give the boy some money, which initially works. Gregorii divides the narrative into several processes. The first encounter with the devil and the literary presentation of the actual pact seem essential . As is often the case in MELISSANTES 'stories, the story has moralizing elements.
Publications and reception
The legend of Fausten's Höllenzwang in Angermühle in Leipzig was used two decades after it was published by Gregorii in the monthly discussions of the realm of spirits and in the 19th century by Ludwig Bechstein and Johann Georg Theodor Grasse in their legends. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or later Michail Bulgakow processed these topics into world literature. A transcription of the original edition from 1712 was published in 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ MELISSANTES, Curieuse OROGRAPHIA Or accurate description of the most famous mountains / In Europe / Asia / Africa and America: With the most exquisite theological / political / physical / moral and other notable comments and histories / as well as all the memorable antiqvities that occurred there; Illustrated in alphabetical order / with a complete real register / by Johann Gottfried Gregorii / alias MELISSANTES , Frankfurt, Leipzig and [Erfurt] 1715
- ^ Wilhelm Dorow, Reminiscences. Goethe's mother; with letters and notes , Leipzig 1842
- ↑ MELISSANTES, The sad Schaubühne , Frankfurt, Leipzig [and Arnstadt] 1716, pp. 243–246
- ↑ Elise von Keudell, GOETHE AS USER OF THE WEIMAR LIBRARY , Weimar 1931, p. 323
- ↑ Otto von Graben zum Stein, Monthly Discussion of the Realm of Spirits , Vol. 3, Leipzig 1729–1731
- ^ Carsten Berndt: Melissantes: a Thuringian polyhistor and his job descriptions in the 18th century; Life and work of Johann Gottfried Gregorii (1685–1770) as a contribution to the history of geography, cartography, genealogy, psychology, pedagogy and professional studies in Germany; [a Thuringian geographer and universal scholar (1685–1770)] , Rockstuhl, 3rd edition Bad Langensalza 2015, ISBN 978-3-86777-166-5 . Pp. 96-103, pp. 443-455