Franz Xaver Schönwerth

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Franz Xaver Schönwerth (from 1859: Franz Xaver Ritter von Schönwerth ; * July 16, 1810 in Amberg , † May 24, 1886 in Munich ) is considered the most famous folklorist from Upper Palatinate .

Life

Schönwerth was born in Amberg in the Upper Palatinate as the first of five children of the royal drawing professor Joseph Schönwerth. From 1821 he attended the local high school . From 1832 he studied camera science in Munich, from 1834 law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After his first years of work as a legal trainee, in 1840 he got a permanent position as a council advisor in the government of Upper Bavaria . From 1845 on he was in the service of Crown Prince Maximilian as a private secretary and became his head of cabinet after his accession to the throne in 1848. In 1851 he became a councilor. In 1852 he moved to the Bavarian Ministry of Finance as a ministerial advisor and in 1859 was raised to the personal nobility by being awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown .

Schönwerth researched the life of the Upper Palatinate population between 1852 and 1886 and recorded his observations. Between 1857 and 1859 he published his work in three volumes under the title: From the Upper Palatinate - Sitten und Sagen . However, only a small part of his extensive research is published in it.

Grave of Franz Xaver Schönwerth on the 125th anniversary of his death

During his visits to the Upper Palatinate, Schönwerth recorded legends , fairy tales , tales , children's games , nursery rhymes and songs as well as proverbs . He observed life in the house and yard, described everyday farm life, customs and costume. Based on his notes, he left us a living image of the life of the Upper Palatinate population in the 19th century. Jakob Grimm (1785–1863) wrote about him: “Nowhere else in Germany has the collection been carried out more carefully, fully and with such subtle intuition.” In addition to the legends, fairy tales and customs of the Upper Palatinate, the Schönwerth Collection also offers precise insights into the Upper Palatinate folk medicine 19th century; The healing spells and blessings show that much of it is to be seen as the remnants of medieval monastery medicine.

Schönwerth was chairman of the Historical Society of Upper Bavaria from 1868 to 1875 .

Schönwerth died in Munich in 1886. He found his final resting place in the Old Northern Cemetery .

Honors

The Staatliche Realschule Amberg has been called Franz-Xaver-von-Schönwerth-Realschule Amberg since 2010 .

Schönwerth was an honorary member of the Catholic Bavarian student association Rhaetia in Munich .

Fonts

  • Fr [anz Xaver] Schönwerth: From the Upper Palatinate. Customs and sayings. 3 parts. Matth. Rieger'sche Buchhandlung, Augsburg 1857, 1858, 1859.
  • FX v. Schönwerth: Proverbs of the people of the Upper Palatinate in dialect. Special print from the XXIX. Tie of the negotiations of the historical association of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg. Joseph Mayr, Stadtamhof 1873.
  • Ms. X. von Schönwerth: Johann Andreas Schmeller and his adaptation of the Baier dialect with reference to the Upper Palatinate. In: VHVO 28, 1872, pp. 221-249.

Editions

  • Franz Xaver von Schönwerth: The beet princess and other fairy tales. Retold by senior teacher J [ohann] B [aptist] Laßleben . Pictures by Albert Reich . Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz o. J. [1923].
  • Karl Winkler (Hrsg.): Upper Palatinate sagas, legends, fairy tales and Schwänke. Collected from the estate of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth. Michael Laßleben, Oberpfalz-Verlag, Kallmünz OJ [1935].
  • Roland Röhrich (Ed.): The Schönwerth reading book. Folklore from the Upper Palatinate in the 19th century. (= Upper Palatinate Language Mosaic, no volume information) Pustet, Regensburg 1981, ISBN 3-7917-0718-3 .
  • Erika Eichenseer , Roland Röhrich (ed.): Upper Palatinate legends and fairy tales. Franz Xaver von Schönwerth on the 100th anniversary of his death. A reading book. Edited on behalf of the Upper Palatinate District. Book publisher of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung, Regensburg 1986.
  • Franz Xaver von Schönwerth: The red dwarf. 12 unknown fairy tales from the Upper Palatinate illustrated by Irmingard Jeserick, translated by Julia Weigl with an afterword by Lutz Röhrich. Edited by Franz Anton Niedermayr based on an idea by Klemens Unger. Niedermayr, Regensburg 2000.
  • Franz Xaver von Schönwerth: Prince Roßzwifl and other fairy tales from the collection of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth (1810–1886). Edited by Erika Eichenseer on behalf of the Schönwerth-Gesellschaft e. V. With illustrations by Barbara Stefan and an afterword by Daniel Drascek. Morsbach, Regensburg 2010.
  • M. Charlotte Wolf (Transl.): Original Bavarian Folktales: A Schönwerth Selection: A Dual-Language Book. Dover Publications, Mineola NY 2014, ISBN 978-0-486-49991-8 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

literature

  • Wolfgang Rappel: Schönwerth, Franz Xaver von. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 696 ( digitized version ).
  • Daniel Drascek, Helmut Groschwitz, Erika Lindig, Manuel Trummer (eds.): Schönwerth - “collected with such a faint sense.” New perspectives on Franz Xaver von Schönwerth (1810–1886) and his research on everyday culture in the Upper Palatinate. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2011. (Also contains the currently most extensive bibliography on Schönwerth.)
  • Wolfgang Ernst Upper Palatinate healing magic. Saying and rite in folk verbal therapy from the Schönwerth Collection, Bodner, 2008 ISBN 978-3-937117-69-0
  • Hyacinth Holland :  Schönwerth, Franz Xaver von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 321-324.
  • Roland Röhrich: The Upper Palatinate folklorist Franz Xaver Schönwerth - His life and work . Verlag Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-1124-3 .
  • Roland Röhrich: The informants and the employees of the Upper Palatinate folklorist Franz Xaver von Schönwerth. In: Folk Culture and Home. Festschrift for Josef Dünninger on his 80th birthday. Edited by Dieter Harmening and Erich Wimmer. Würzburg 1986, pp. 137-147.
  • Heidemarie Sander:  Franz Xaver von Schönwerth. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 424 ( digitized version ).

Movies

  • Schönwerths Upper Palatinate - Legendary lights . Sander-Film, Amberg / Don Bosco, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7698-1634-1 .
  • Greetings to Mr. Wiesawittl . DVD, Sander-Film, Amberg, Hofa-Media, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-031932-7 .

Web links

Wikisource: Franz Xaver Schönwerth  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Franz Xaver Schönwerth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ J [acob] G [rimm]: Schönwerth, Fr., kb Ministerialrath u. Secretary General, from Upper Palatinate. Customs and sayings. 1. u. 2. Thl. Augsburg, 1857, 58th Rieger. (X, 448; 2 ll., 460 p. 8) go. 3 Thlr. In: Literarisches Centralblatt for Germany. Edited by Friedrich Zarncke. No. 21, May 22, 1858. Eduard Avenarius, Leipzig 1858, pp. 336–337.
  2. ^ Clemens Bopp: Alfred Schönwerth (1865–1941). A Munich surgeon succeeding Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum . Munich (Univ.-Diss.) 2005, p. 40 ( urn : nbn: de: bvb: 91-diss20051117-0018434499 ).
personal data
SURNAME Schönwerth, Franz Xaver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönwerth, Franz Xaver von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Amberg , Kingdom of Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1886
Place of death Munich , Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire