Ferdinand Jakob Siebert

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Ferdinand Jakob Siebert (* 1791 in Treysa ; † 1847 or 1848 there ) was a German theologian , Germanist and folklorist .

Life

Siebert came from a Hessian pastor family. As a theologian, he had taken the theoretical exam at the Philipps University of Marburg . At the suggestion of Professor Wachler in Marburg , who had also been a teacher for the Brothers Grimm , he turned to German studies . In 1814 he became principal of the Treysa city school. In Treysa he was friends with the Mannel family from Allendorf , to whose daughter Friederike Mannel he was briefly engaged and who drew his attention to the Brothers Grimm. In 1821 Siebert became a teacher at the Friedrichsgymnasium in Kassel and in 1834 he became a pastor in Mörshausen near Homberg (Efze) .

Siebert offered to Wilhelm Grimm to collect Schwalm fairy tales for him. Ferdinand Siebert is the folklore pioneer who systematically carried out folkloric studies of the Schwalm . From 1811 to 1818 he wrote six letters to Wilhelm Grimm. In 1817 Jacob Grimm visited him in Treysa. In 1812 he received a free copy of the first edition for his contribution to the Grimm fairy tale collection and in 1815 a free copy of the second fairy tale volume and a letter in which he was appointed a member of the Schwalmkreis , a society founded by Jacob Grimm in Vienna in 1815. In 1816 he joined the ancient society.

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Siebert collected for the Brothers Grimm the fairy tales Gutkegel and Kartenspiel , Snow White , Six Coming Through the World , The Listener, the Runner, the Blower and the Strong , From the Summer Garden and the Winter Garden and from the Clever Little Tailor . Possibly he also contributed the fairy tales from the swallow area The poor and the rich , the loyal animals , the lazy and the hardworking and the three brothers .

literature

  • Hans-Jörg Uther : Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm . 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Divine Woman in the Oberhessische Zeitung from July 20, 2019 - Article at Nexis, accessed on January 29, 2020 from the Oberhessische Zeitung
  2. ^ Wilhelm Schoof : On the genesis of the Grimm fairy tales . Dr. Ernst Hausnedell & Co. Hamburg 1959 pp. 81-88
  3. ↑ Heinz Rölleke in Zeit Geschichte from November 20, 2012 - article at Nexis, accessed on January 29, 2020 from Die Zeit
personal data
SURNAME Siebert, Ferdinand Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, Germanist, folklorist and fairy tale collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Treysa
DATE OF DEATH 1847 or 1848
Place of death Treysa