Georg Jäger (poet)
Georg Friedrich Oskar Jäger (born December 13, 1826 in Stuttgart ; † March 1, 1904 there ) was a Württemberg captain and poet .
Life
Georg Jäger was the son of the doctor and paleontologist Georg Friedrich von Jäger and his wife Charlotte, a sister of the poet Gustav Schwab . He attended high school and polytechnic in his hometown and then worked as a bookseller. From 1853 he sat in on the Johanneum in Hamburg , where he lived for three years, and from then on worked as a teacher. In 1859 he joined the Württemberg Army and was involved in the German War in 1866 and in the Franco-German War in 1870/71. In 1872 he was retired from the army and from then on lived as a poet in Stuttgart.
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In addition to his own poetry, Jäger initially created translations of English, French and Italian-language poetry. In 1866 his Metric Transcriptions appeared with works by Lord Byron , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Vincenzo Monti and others. In 1873 he published a collection of lyrical atmospheric pictures from the Franco-German War under the title Until Before Paris , which was published by the Stuttgart publishing house Karl Kirn and reprinted several times by Jäger's own publishing house. Rudolf Krauss characterized him as a boyish and humorous occasional poet and also emphasized his commitment to his fellow poets. This was particularly evident in the publication of the Schwäbische Lieder-Chronik , a magazine published in loose succession from 1875 to 1885 with poems by numerous authors from the Württemberg region, including Carl Weitbrecht , Eduard Paulus , Emil Engelmann and many more.
Publications
- Metric transmissions. Paul Neff. Stuttgart 1866.
- Echoes. Poems. Paul Neff. Stuttgart 1872.
- Until before Paris 1870–71. Diary pages of a Württemberg officer. Karl Kirn. Stuttgart 1873.
- Echoes. Poems. 2. Collection. Karl Kirn. Stuttgart 1874.
- Swabian song chronicle. Yearbook of contemporary German song poetry in Swabia. Verlag der Lieder-Chronik. Stuttgart 1875-1886.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Sixth completely revised and greatly increased edition. Leipzig 1913. Volume 3, p. 334.
- ^ Rudolf Krauss: Swabian literary history in two volumes. Second volume. Württemberg literature in the nineteenth century. Freiburg im Breisgau 1899. p. 333.
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SURNAME | Hunter, Georg |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jäger, Georg Friedrich Oskar; Waldhaus, Friedrich (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Württemberg captain and poet |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1826 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1904 |
Place of death | Stuttgart |