Friedrich August Eschen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Friedrich August Eschen (born February 7, 1776 in Eutin / Ostholstein ; † August 7, 1800 near Servoz , France) was a German educator, philologist, writer and translator.

Life

Friedrich August Eschen was the eldest son of the Eutin Freemason and local lawyer at the seat of government of the Principality of Lübeck, Jacob Hugo Eschen (1745-1814). He attended the Eutin Latin School under the neo-humanist rector Johann Heinrich Voss (1751-1826), from whose work as a poet and ( inter alia) Homer , Virgil , Ovid , Horace translator he was strongly influenced.

From summer semester 1796 studying ash trees in Jena, where he his Oldenburg compatriot and even-aged friend's mediation Johann Friedrich Herbart member of the of Johann Gottlieb Fichte promoted literary Republican student firm society of free men was. From this society further friendships arose, for example with Johann Diederich Gries , Casimir Ulrich Boehlendorff , Johann Erich von Berger , August Ludwig Hülsen , Friedrich Philipp Albert Muhrbeck , Karl Schildener , Johann Erichson , Johann Rudolf Steck , Johann Rudolf Emanuel Fischer, Albrecht Friedrich May , Johann Georg Lange and Theodor Ziemssen . As early as 1797 he successfully published translations from Greek and Latin as well as his own poems, including in such renowned organs as Schiller's Horen , his Musenalmanach , Wieland's Merkur and Johann Friedrich Reichardt's cultural journals Germany and Lyceum der Schöne Künste .

In 1798 he went to the Helvetic Republic , where he, like Herbart, worked as a private tutor in families in Bern . Here, together with Herbart and Ziemssen, they met Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi .

Eschen had an accident in August 1800 during a glacier hike with Theodor Ziemssen in the Mont Blanc area, not far from Chamonix . The monument to the "naturaliste, littérateur, poète" Eschen, erected at the grave in the village of Servoz at the instigation of the French Revolutionary Government under Interior Minister Lucien Bonaparte in 1801 , can still be seen today.

Works

  • Hymns from the Greek: To Hermes, To Dionysus, To the Delic Apollo, To the Muses and Apollo, To Aphrodite, To Artemis, To the mother of all
  • The spindle. Theocrit's twenty-eighth idyll
  • The frog mouse fight. From the Greek
  • Translation samples in Friedrich Schlegel's history of the poetry of the Greeks and Romans
  • Horace's lyric poems translated and explained
  • The teaching of humility
  • To Louise. With a poem by Ossian
  • Appearance
  • The morning
  • The storm
  • The peace
  • The emigrant. An idyll

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich August Eschen  - Sources and full texts
  • Christiane Ruberg: Review by: Michael Wortmann: The Free Man Friedrich August Eschen (1776–1800), biography-letters-works-context-pedagogy-reception. CH. Möllmann, Borchen bei Paderborn 2018. In: Educational Review - EWR. 17 (2017), No. 2 (published on May 9, 2018), online at Verlag Julius Klinkhardt KG, Bad Heilbronn
  • Reception to Michael Wortmann: The Free Man Friedrich August Eschen (1776–1800). at Amazon

proof

  1. ↑ http://dspace.unitus.it/bitstream/2067/1087/1/gpasqua_tesid.pdf
  2. ^ Ernst Zunker:  Casimir Ulrich Boehlendorff and the Pomeranian friends from the society of free men and in the sphere of influence of Holderlin . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series, Vol. 60, NG Elwert, Marburg 1974, pp. 118-121 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Eschen, Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, philologist, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutin
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1800
Place of death Servoz , Chamonix