Friedrich Hild (writer)

Friedrich Hild (born March 1, 1861 in Driedorf / Dillkreis, then Duchy of Nassau ; † March 15, 1937 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer and teacher.

Life

Friedrich Hild came from a farming family in the Westerwald. His parents were Friedrich Hild and Karoline geb. Steel. From 1878 to 1881 Friedrich Hild attended the teachers' college in Dillenburg. He then took a position at the Syrian Orphanage in Jerusalem and worked in a variety of ways: as an elementary school, seminar and blind teacher, as an author of Arabic textbooks, typesetter, printer, bookbinder, site manager, museum administrator, taxidermist, gardener, etc. a. Above all, he founded and directed a school for the blind at the orphanage in Jerusalem. In 1886 he returned to Germany and found a job as a teacher in Rodheim an der Bieber, on Gleiberg near Gießen, and went to the Schuboth Foundation in Niedererlenbach in the north of Frankfurt as a teacher at Easter 1888. After three years (1891) he got a job as an assistant teacher at the Katharinenschule in Frankfurt / Main, where he was appointed full teacher in 1893. In October 1898 he was transferred to the Kirchner School and remained in the Frankfurt school service until 1924. He was also buried in Frankfurt, where he died on March 15, 1937. Friedrich Hild was married to Louise geb. Braun from Dillenburg; the marriage remained childless.

Friedrich Hild's literary works - exclusively prose - are set up either in Palestine or in his homeland in the Westerwald, and some of them have autobiographical features. The monthly magazine of the Westerwaldverein "Westerwälder Schauinsland" owed him a number of stories in the 1920s and 1930s.

Works

Book editions

• Under the Sun of the Orient (The Blood Avenger, In den Felsen von Ixim, The Voice of Home), Stuttgart and Gotha 1925
• The pledge to Frankfurt an der Oder 1927
• From his youth (the master is there, the miller of Tire), Frankfurt an der Oder 1928
• The three flail farmers, Wandsbek 1928
•  A strange engagement, Wandsbek 1932

stories

(mainly in the monthly magazine of the Westerwaldverein)          

• "Westerwälder Schauinsland" (1920s / 1930s) 

literature

•  Wilhelm Heymann: Hild, a narrator from our homeland . In: Heimat im Bild No. 9, 1934, pp. 35f.
•  Otto Renkhoff: Hild, Friedrich . In: Nassauische Biographie, 2nd ed. Wiesbaden 1992, p. 323, no.1809
•  Driedorf through the ages , ed. v. Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Driedorf, Horb am Neckar 1997, p. 102           
•  Ulrich Schuppener: The Westerwald home - so uniquely beautiful in its simplicity (from: The three flail farmers by Friedrich Hild). In memory of the writer Friedrich Hild (1861–1937) from Driedorf on the occasion of his 140th birthday. In: Heimatjahrbuch für das Land an der Dill in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis, part 1, 2001, pp. 225–235; Part 2, 2002, pp. 182-188
•  Ders .: Short biography, introduction and text reproduction of stories by Friedrich Hild. In: ibid., 2000, pp. 136-140; 2006, pp. 153-160; 2008, pp. 214-218; 2010, pp. 137-143