Friedrich Wilhelm Lever
Friedrich Wilhelm Hebel (born February 24, 1875 in Rothselberg , Palatinate (Bavaria) ; † June 6, 1931 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German educator and author who made outstanding contributions to the collection and publication of Palatine sagas.
Life
He was the son of a farmer and attended the Kusel teacher preparation school and the Kaiserslautern teacher training college , which he completed in 1894.
Friedrich Wilhelm Hebel then taught in the Rhine Palatinate, which was then part of Bavaria , at the schools in Dansenberg , Odenbach and, from 1897, in Kaiserslautern. In 1923 he became district school councilor for the Kaiserslautern-Land area.
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Lever was interested in the legends and folklore of his homeland. Through his experiences in class, he also realized that there was no collection of legends in the region. So he began to fathom and collect the legends of the Palatinate and the neighboring areas, for which he led extensive correspondence with many pastors and teachers. In 1906 he published his first collection “Palatinate Legends” , in 1908 the second volume and in 1912 the “Palatinate Legends Book” with around 300 individual stories. Another volume was published in 1930 with the title “Palatine Legends: New Series” , illustrated by Adolf Kessler (1890–1974). The books became standard works with various editions. In 1958 and 1968 the “Palatine sagas” were published as a selection from the previous volumes in a new edition; 2006 also the “Palatine Book of Legends” . The Bavarian Ministry of Culture recommended the work “Palatinate Legends” expressly for schools in 1906 and had a special edition published for it.
Because of his published collections of sagas, Friedrich Wilhelm Hebel is also called the "Palatinate Grimm " . In the afterword to the new edition of the Palatinate Book of Legends, Karlheinz Schauder wrote in 2006: "With its collection, Hebel has rendered an invaluable service to the entire Palatinate."
In 1912, in the foreword to his “Palatine Book of Legends” , he stated that he wanted to “serve the Palatinate people, especially the Palatinate youth, strengthen the feeling of love for their homeland and awaken and deepen the understanding of the oldest emotions of the people's soul."
Another work in 1917 was his collection of local idioms, proverbs and anecdotes under the title “Palatinate Humor in Language and Folklore” .
literature
- Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon , Volume 15, p. 285, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 3110236915 ; (Digital scan)
- Viktor Carl (Ed.): Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities , Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , p. 333
- Friedrich Wilhelm Hebel: Palatine Book of Legends , new edition, 2006, ISBN 3-939540-01-3
Web links
- Entry on Friedrich Wilhelm Hebel in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
- Commemorative article in the Rheinpfalz, from August 14, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review of the new edition from 2006
- ↑ Kerstin Knop: Phraseology of the Palatinate , dissertation, University of Trier (on the book by Hebel, PDF document, page 22)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lever, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rothselberg , Palatinate (Bavaria) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 6, 1931 |
| Place of death | Kaiserslautern |