Georg Nikolaus Bärmann

Lithograph by Carl Lill (1835)

Memory of the writer Georg Nikolaus Bärmann in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg

Georg Nikolaus Bärmann (born May 19, 1785 in Hamburg ; † March 1, 1850 there ) was a German writer.

Georg Nikolaus Bärmann was the son of Georg David Böhrmann from Coburg and his wife Anna Lucia Bauser from Seester (Holstein).

He was a language and business teacher in Hamburg and from 1810 to 1837 head of a private school he founded. He translated works from English, French and - together with Carl Richard - from Spanish. He also wrote linguistic and local history texts and wrote in the Low German dialect.

While working in Hamburg, he wrote the text of the Hamburg anthem Hammonia.

Works (selection)

• Hamburg monuments. A topographical-political-historical manual. Bachmann et al. Gundermann, Hamburg 1794. ( digitized version )
• Homonymicon of the Germans. Vollmer, Hamburg and Altona 1819. ( digitized version )
• Alexander von Soltwedel or the Hansa rationale. Bremen 1817.
• The happy beggars. A tragicomic mask game in five acts. Adapted for the German stage based on Carlo Gozzi’s Italian. Kollmann, Leipzig 1819.
• Hamburg and the Hamburg area . Neestler, Hamburg 1822. ( digitized version )
• Rymels and dens. En Höög- un Häwel-Book för'n plattdüüdschen Börger un'n Buren up't year ... 2 volumes, 1822 and 1823.
• Papers from my colorful portfolio. Berlin 1826.
• Dat grote Höög- and Häwel-Book. Dat sünd Dichtels, Rymels and Buverspillen in Hamburg's Plattdüüd dialect. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1827. ( digitized version )
• Citizen loyalty. Hamburg 1828.
• Nine hundred and ninety-nine and several more almanac comedies through the cube . Zwickau 1828
• King Kanut. Prague 1829.
• Adlev the Fourth, the hero of Schauenburg. A patriotic poem in 7 songs. Self-published, Hamburg 1832. ( digitized version )
• Sketches and legends from Portugal. Retold the English of Miss Julia Pardoe . Zwickau 1834.

literature

• v. Liliencron:  Bärmann, Georg Nikolaus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 68 f.
• Käthe Scheel:  Bärmann, Georg Nikolaus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 527 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Michael Töteberg: Bärmann, Georg Nicolaus . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 34-35 .

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Nicolaus Bärmann  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Georg Nikolaus Bärmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Georg Nikolaus Bärmann  in the German Digital Library
• Georg Nikolaus Bärmann in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)