Friedrich Beck (writer)
Christian Friedrich Beck (born June 20, 1806 in Ebersberg , † August 30, 1888 in Munich ) was a German poet and scholar.
Life
He was the son of the district judge Karl Theodor Beck (1767-1830) and studied philology in Neuburg and Munich under Friedrich Thiersch . From 1836 he taught at a Latin school in Munich and was appointed high school professor in 1850. During this time, his romantic- influenced works, The Story of a German Stonemason (1834) and a Collection of Poems (1844), were created. He wrote articles for the Munich political newspaper and the Munich newspaper and wrote numerous academic papers.
In 1860 he was retired due to an eye disease. He continued to work as a writer and has now written several textbooks for young people. He was a member of the Munich casual society . After a long illness, he died on August 30, 1888.
tomb
The tomb of Frederick Beck is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 9 - Series 2 - Place 33) location .
Works (selection)
- Mac Aulay (1824)
- Alfred the Great (1826)
- Poems . C. Wolf, Munich 1829.
- Story of a German stonemason . Literary and artistic establishment (Cotta), Munich 1834. ( digitized version )
- Suggestions for a deeper foundation of the history of religious art . Wolf, Munich 1834. ( digitized version )
- Poems Literary-Artistic Institution, Munich 1844. ( digitized )
- Telephos. A tragedy . C. Wolf, Munich 1858. ( digitized version )
- About the Zeus idea in its central position to the Hellenistic circle of gods . (School program) Munich 1852. ( digitized version )
- Theophany . FA Perthes, Gotha 1855. (2nd edition 1877) ( digitized )
- The consecration of the day . (Festival) Geiger, Munich 1856. ( digitized version )
- Timelines. Poems from the years 1845-1860 . Rohsold, Munich 1860. ( digitized version )
- Still life. New selection of lyric poems . Rohsold, Munich 1861. ( digitized version )
- Tendrils . Munich 1862.
- Loher and Maller (1863)
- Translation of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin's poems. Munich 1863.
- In memory of my Elisabeth . (Sonnets). Wolf, Munich 1865. ( digitized version )
- Theory of prose and poetry . Carl Merhoff, Munich 1867. ( digitized version )
- Materials and dispositions for exercise essays along with individual examples . Fleischmann, Munich 1868. ( digitized version )
- Spruch- and Räthselbüchlein , Huttler, Augsburg 1883.
- Textbook of the German prose style Fleischmann, Munich 1864 (2nd edition) ( digitized ).
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Beck, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, p. 296 f.
- Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 2nd Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1929, vol. 12, pp 485 -489.
Web links
- Works by and about Friedrich Beck in the German Digital Library
- Estate in the Bavarian State Library
- Friedrich Beck in the literature portal Bavaria
- Six songs, composed by Friedrich Beck , illustrated by Franz Graf von Pocci
Individual evidence
- ↑ Informal Society: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Informal Society Munich 1837-1987 , University printing and publishing house Dr. C. Wolf and Son KG, Munich 1987, 159 pages
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beck, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beck, Christian Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet and scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ebersberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1888 |
| Place of death | Munich |