Friedrich Gottschalck

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Kaspar Friedrich Gottschalck (born June 15, 1772 in Sondershausen , † June 17, 1854 in Dresden ) was a German collector of sagas , librarian and editor .

Life

Friedrich Gottschalck was born the son of a lawyer and civil servant. A grandfather also held this position. He was the eighth child in his family. He had a total of 23 siblings whom his father had fathered in four marriages. He spent his school days in his birthplace. From autumn 1790 he studied law at the University of Göttingen , which he graduated after three years.

He was ducal-Anhalt court advisor to Ballenstedt and has made a name for himself as the editor of an early collection of sagas, a compilation of knight castles and travel guides. In 1817 the three-volume work 'Almanach der Ritterorden' was published in Leipzig, a standard work describing European orders of knights and their classification.

In 1814 he published in Halle under the programmatic title Die Sagen und Volksmärchen der Deutschen one of the most important collections of legends and fairy tales , which came out before the German Sages of the Brothers Grimm. It is comparable to the works of Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal and Johann Gustav Büsching .

Gottschalck's collection of legends and fairy tales contains 50 texts in a colorful sequence, which he has provided with small comments and sources. Gottschalck partially assigned the sagas to historical events, although he emphasized in the preface that sagas are primarily intended for entertainment and are not historical evidence.

Works (selection)

  • Pocket book for travelers in the Harz , G. Th. Keil, Magdeburg 1806; (Reprint, 3rd edition 2015, Schmidt-Buch-Verlag Wernigerode, ISBN 978-3-936185-69-0 )
  • Almanac of the Knights Order , Volume 3, Goeschen, 1819
  • Genealogical paperback: on d. Year ... - Dresden: Gottschalk . Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Pocket book for travelers in the Harz , Magdeburg 1806; Reprint Wernigerode 2011
  • The sagas and folk tales of the Germans 1st volume [not published more]. Halle: Hemmerde and Schwetschke, 1814, Commons
  • German folk tales. Leipzig: Baumgartner. 1846. Volume 1 and 2
  • The destruction of Oberlauda . In: Badisches Sagen-Buch. 2nd volume. Karlsruhe: Creuzbauer and Kasper, 1846, pp. 630–632
  • Dresden its surroundings and Saxon Switzerland. 5th edition, 2nd impression. Dresden: Gottschalck, 1856

literature

  • A. Wellner, Kaspar Friedrich Gottschalck, the author of the first Harz travel guide. In: Harz-Zeitschrift 46/47 (1994/95), pp. 91-105 (not evaluated)
  • Döring, Heinrich: Kaspar Friedrich Gottschalck. - In: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Vol. 77. - Leipzig, 1863. - P. 164–171 (not evaluated)
  • Förster, Steffen: Friedrich Gottschalck - an early popularizer of representational historical sources and an ecomuseologist. - In: Curiositas, Vol. 2. - Leipzig and Langenweißbach, 2002. pp. 127–138 (not evaluated)

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Gottschalck, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottschalck, Kaspar Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German collector of sagas, librarian and editor
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Sondershausen
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1854
Place of death Dresden