Ferdinand Adolf Gelbcke

Ferdinand Adolf Gelbcke (* 6. November 1812 in Zerbst / Anhalt , † May 8. ^{. Jul} / 20th May  1892 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a German-Russian educator , writer and composer .

Life

Ferdinand Gelbcke was the son of Zerbst businessman Carl Friedrich Gelbcke (1783–1847) and the Hamburg merchant's daughter Anna Elisabeth Westphalen (1786–1849), a sister of the Hamburg lawyer Nicolaus Adolf Westphalen (1793–1854).

From 1820 to 1828 he attended grammar school in Zerbst and joined Eduard Anton's bookstore in Halle (Saale) as an apprentice at the age of 16 . Here he was most recently a partner in Anton's publishing business. In 1831 he went to Dessau and studied there at the music school of the court music director Friedrich Schneider (1786-1853).

After studying music, he went to Russia in 1834 and initially worked as a singing teacher in the music-loving Saint Petersburg merchant families. In 1838 he married the doctor's daughter Johanna Luise Scheilin (1813–1890). His son, the educator Carl Friedrich Gelbcke (1842–1922), came from this marriage .

In 1846, Gelbcke was asked to join the German Charity Association. Gelbcke headed this association as director until 1849 and ran the business as secretary until 1854. In the same year, during the Crimean War, he set up a hospital with 50 beds in the princely Beloselsky women's asylum and managed it as director until 1882.

From 1857 until his retirement in 1874, Gelbcke taught German language and literature at the Sankt Annen School in Saint Petersburg.

Works

Gelbcke worked for a time as a publisher, wrote several dramas, poems and songs and translated French and English literature into German.

Works as publisher:

• Karl Rosenkranz : History of the Poetry of the Middle Ages . Anton & Gelbcke, Halle 1830.
• Heinrich Leo : Handbook of the history of the Middle Ages . Anton & Gelbcke, Halle 1830.

Works as a writer:

• Albrecht Dürer's death. Drama in two acts . Leipzig 1836.
• Octavianus Magnus. A satirical poem in four songs. All friends of music . Hamburg 1840.
• Peter the Great . Saint Petersburg 1842. (historical oratorio )
• The peri. A dramatic poem in three sections . Leipzig 1845.
• Festival for the Schiller celebration in Saint Petersburg . Saint Petersburg 1859.
• The mother of the Strelitzen. Tragedy in an elevator . Leipzig 1865.
• The English stage in Shakespeare's time. Twelve dramas by his contemporaries . Three volumes. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1890
• Twelve German songs for a voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte .

Works as a translator:

• William Shakespeare : Shakespeare's Sonnets 1-51. In: Snowflakes 1858. pp. 67-98.
• John Lilly: Alexander and Campaspe . A comedy . Henschel, Berlin 1963 (original title: A most excellent comedy of Alexander, Campaspe and Diogenes ).
• Laurence Stars : Stars Tristram Shandy . Hildburghausen 1869.
• François Rabelais : Gargantua and Pantagruel . 2 volumes, Leipzig / Vienna 1879.
• William Shakespeare : The Two Noble Cousins. By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. In: The English stage in Shakespeare's time. Twelve dramas by his contemporaries . Three volumes. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1890, Volume 3, pp. 11-105.

literature

• Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 454-455 .
• Walther Killy: Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area . tape 4 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 3-11-021390-7 , p. 145 .
• Ferdinand Adolf Gelbcke in the Erik Amburger database at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies

Web links

• Works by and about Ferdinand Adolf Gelbcke  in the German Digital Library