Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme

Birthplace

Blackboard at the birthplace

Grimme monument in his place of birth around 1910

Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme (pseudonym: Strunzerdäler; Sprickeln-Mann; Spöne-Mann) (born December 25, 1827 in Assinghausen ( Sauerland ); † April 2, 1887 in Münster ) was a German writer , headmaster, local poet and botanist.

Life

Grimme was born as the son of a village school teacher in the old schoolhouse in Assinghausen (today Olsberg ). His father and the pastor of the village taught him privately. He first attended the Progymnasium in Brilon and passed the high school diploma with distinction at the Laurentianum in Arnsberg in 1847 . The friendship with Joseph Pape , who introduced him to Christoph Bernhard Schlueter's circle , also dates from this time .

In 1847 Grimme began studying theology and the old and new philology at the academy in Münster (Westphalia) , but gave up theology again after two semesters. In 1847 he was one of the founders of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Sauerlandia Münster in the CV . Grimme had been suffering from health problems since he was at school and in 1850 had to move his preparations to the parental home. In 1852 he became a grammar school teacher for Latin, Greek, German and geography at the Arnsberg grammar school. In 1854 he moved to Brilon as an assistant teacher , in 1855 to the Münstersche Gymnasium Paulinum and in 1856 as a full teacher at the Paderborn Gymnasium Theodorianum .

During the 16 years in Paderborn, Grimme's most important works were created. In 1872 he switched to the Royal Catholic High School in Heiligenstadt in Eichsfeld, Thuringia, as director . In 1875 he was awarded the Royal Red Eagle Order IV class and an honorary doctorate from the academy in Münster. In 1885 Grimme retired; he settled again in Munster, where he died on April 2, 1887. His grave is in the central cemetery in Münster .

Grimme had several sons, including the Semiticist Hubert Grimme , the Aachen art historian, classical philologist, Germanist and local researcher Gustav Grimme , whose son is the art historian Ernst Günther Grimme , and Clemens Grimme, whose grandson is the author and publisher Matthias TJ Grimme .

The Friedrich-Wilhelm-Grimme-Weg , an 84-kilometer hiking trail run by the Sauerland Mountain Association (SGV) and a cultural route set up by the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association, was named after him.

Works

Work edition

Selected Works ; 3 vols., Ed. v. Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide , Dortmund (Ruhfus) 1920 f. (The planned volumes 4–6 were no longer published) :
- Vol. 1: Stories and German ways
  - Blümlein der Andacht , pp. 1–55
  - One shouldn't drown a boy , pp. 56–79
  - A star on the heart , pp. 80–150
  - People rarely do it well , pp. 151–216
  - The Station Mountain, pp. 217–279 (and various ways)
- Vol. 2: Suerländsk Platt , printing and publishing by Fr. Wilh. Ruhfus, Dortmund 1921
- Vol. 3: Life and Home
  - Memoirs of a Village Boy , pp. 1–28
  - Memoirs of a village boy. New series , pp. 29–57
  - Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme. Biographical information in pictures , by Hubert Grimme
  - A spring wreath from the letters from Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme to his bride Emilie Düser. 1853-1858 , pp. 83-114
  - The Sauerland and its inhabitants , 7 parts, pp. 115-252
Selected Works. Published by Gisela Grimme-Welsch. Aschendorff, Münster 1983
Reader Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme. Compiled and with an afterword by Peter Bürger. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2019 (Nylands Kleine Westfälische Bibliothek 85). ISBN 978-3-8498-1363-5

literature

Alfons Borsch: A monument to Friedrich-Wilhelm Grimme. In: Olpe in the past and present. 2nd volume (1994), pp. 95-99.
Grimme Memorial Book. For the 100th birthday of the poet Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme Born on December 25, 1827. Sauerland-Verlag, Iserlohn 1927.

Web links

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

Wikisource: Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme in the catalog of the German National Library
Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
Wilhelm Schulte: Grimme, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 89 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Grimme, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer, headmaster, local poet and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 25, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH	Assinghausen (Sauerland)
DATE OF DEATH	April 2, 1887
Place of death	Muenster