Friedrich Gull

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From the boy on the ice

Grave of Friedrich Güll on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

Friedrich Wilhelm Güll (born April 1, 1812 in Ansbach , † December 24, 1879 in Munich ) was a German poet who was best known for his children's songs.

Life

Friedrich Güll, whose father was a master goldsmith , trained in the Royal Bavarian School Teacher's Seminar in Altdorf in 1829 and then lived as a teacher in Flachslanden and Ansbach.

In 1842 he moved to Munich, where he became a teacher at the Protestant parish school. Two years later he opened a private course for girls from the upper classes and directed it for 27 years. In order to be able to secure the care of his wife and three children, Güll u. a. Private lessons in the house of the Kaulbach family. The Bavarian kings Maximilian II and Ludwig II granted the famous poet an honorary salary.

He died in 1879 in the Bavarian capital Munich, was buried in the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 33 - row 10 - 34th) Location . 48.126 11.563666666667

Honors

In his hometown of Ansbach, the Güll-Brünnlein reminds of him today, which is a motif from his poem The Plum Rain. It is located on the outer wall of St. John's Church on Martin-Luther-Platz, across from the house where he was born. The Ansbacher Güllschule from the Art Nouveau period on Güllstrasse also commemorates the son of the city with motifs such as Büblein on the ice above the entrance. Furthermore, Güllstrasse in the Munich district of Ludwigsvorstadt is named after him.

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With his cozy, uninhibited poems like Das Büblein auf dem Eise , Osterhäslein or The First Snow , Güll was one of the most important children's poems of Biedermeier . His works appeared for the first time in 1836 in the children's home in pictures and songs . The illustrations for this were provided by Julius Nisle , the foreword by the romanticist Gustav Schwab , who praised Güll's talent for poetry and his way of conveying information with a good mood instead of a serious face. Many of the poems were set to music by Karl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert . In op. 25, the composer Heinrich Kaspar Schmid set the poems Frisch auf , Tanzliedchen , Spruch von der Kirche , When the children fall asleep , Easter bunny , summer night and armourer to music for youth choir .

It followed u. a. Christmas Pictures (1840), a new edition of the children's home with drawings by Franz Graf von Pocci (1846), New Pictures for Children (1849), Pearls from the Treasure of German Poetry (1850) and the two-volume textbook Systematic Picture School (1847–1851).

The works Leitstern auf der Lebensfahrt, a Spruchbrevier (1881) and Räthselstübchen (1882) appeared posthumously , his former student Hermann von Kaulbach illustrated the Kaulbach-Güll picture book in memory of him .

Poem illustrations at FW Güll's birthplace
About the farmer and the pigeons
Who wants to be among the soldiers
From the little mouse
About the farmer and the giant daughter
Plaque
Pelzemärtel

literature

Adalbert Elschenbroich: Güll, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 257 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Wilhelm Güll - Sources and full texts

Commons : Friedrich Wilhelm Güll - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Friedrich Güll in the catalog of the German National Library
Friedrich Güll in the literature portal Bavaria

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Gull, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Güll, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German poet
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH	December 24, 1879
Place of death	Munich

[1] Friedrich Güll: Children's home in pictures and songs. Publisher, 1836. ( digitized version )

[2] Friedrich Güll: Pearls from the treasure trove of German poetry. Kaiser, 1850. ( digitized version )

[3] Friedrich Güll: Räthselstübchen. Carl Flemming, 1882. ( digitized version )