Franz Wilhelm von Ditfurth

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Franz Wilhelm von Ditfurth (born October 7, 1801 in Rinteln , † May 25, 1880 in Nuremberg ) was a poet, writer, composer and singer, collector and editor of folk , war and spiritual songs .

origin

The parents were the Prussian war and domain councilor Georg von Ditfurth (1742–1815) and his wife Friederike Krug (1773–1808). He had 21 siblings, including - as a half-brother - the later Prussian General of the Infantry Wilhelm (1780–1855).

Life

Ditfurth was born in 1801 in Rinteln (on Gut Dankersen) on the Weser. After the early death of the parents (mother in 1808, father in 1815), the eldest brother Georg took care of the orphaned siblings. After attending grammar school in his hometown, Franz Wilhelm began studying law in Marburg in 1821 , but at that time he was already occupied with music and poetry, which interested him more. Logically, he began to study music in Leipzig in 1825 , his law studies remained without a degree.

Ditfurth lived from 1830 to 1855 with his brother Georg in Theres Castle , a former monastery in Obertheres , where he dedicated himself to collecting Franconian folk songs . He had this sung to him at every opportunity and he welcomed everyone who could enrich his song treasure.

In 1834 he became an active singer in the Liederkranz men's choir in Schweinfurt and came into contact with the Sattler family, Friedrich Rückert and Gottlieb von Tucher from Nuremberg .

In 1835 he began recording songs that were only sung by the people but not yet printed in Obertheres and the towns on the Main between Schweinfurt and Bamberg . From 1855 he published the collected songs in Leipzig, in that year he married Thekla Wallis from Leipzig and moved to Munich . In 1859 he moved to Nuremberg, where he died in 1880.

family

He married Thekla Wallis (January 18, 1822 - October 3, 1892) in Leipzig in 1855 , the daughter of the bookseller Wilhelm Wallis and Friederike Jeanrenaud . The couple had two sons and three daughters, including:

Works

  • Franconian folk songs. With their two-part tunes, as they are sung by the people, collected from the mouths of the people themselves and published , 2 volumes, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1855; Reprint Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1966 (in one volume); Repeated reprint of 2 volumes, Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1978, ISBN 3-429-00555-8 (secular songs) and Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-429-00989-8 (spiritual songs); Digital copies : Volume 1 urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10107351-6 , Volume 2 urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10107352-1 .
    (These include 180 sacred songs (hymns and pilgrimage songs) and 400 secular songs, which are classified into the following subject areas: ballads, love songs, wedding and marriage songs, historical songs, soldier songs, hunter and hunter songs, craft songs and related, caroling songs and miscellaneous things )
  • The historical folk songs from 1756 to 1871 , 2 volumes in 6 booklets, 1871
  • The historical-political folk songs of the Thirty Years War . Edited by K. Bartsch, 1882, reprint 1972

In the Protestant hymn books of the early 20th century, there are hymns from Ditfurth, such as the Christmas carol O joyful day, o merciful day .

Honors

In 1995, a recording of the Bavarian radio took place in the riding stables of the castle of Obertheres in memory of the song collector Ditfurth .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Rintelner Gymnasium in the mirror of the time 1817–1967 ed. from the Ernestinum high school. Bösendahl, Rinteln 1967, p. 101
personal data
SURNAME Ditfurth, Franz Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folk music collector, singer and hymn poet, lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Rinteln
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1880
Place of death Nuremberg