Georg Jäger (poet)

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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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Rudolf Krauss: Swabian literary history in two volumes. Second volume. Württemberg literature in the nineteenth century. Freiburg im Breisgau 1899. p. 333.
personal data
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