Bernhard Gottfried Bueren

Bernhard Gottfried Bueren (born February 12, 1771 in Wolbeck ; † August 3, 1845 in Papenburg ) was a German judge, translator and poet.

Life

Gottfried Bernhard Bueren was born in Wolbeck near Münster and attended the Paulinum grammar school . He then studied law for four years at the academy in Münster. He was court master (private tutor) of the young Count Johann Ignaz Franz von Landsberg-Velen and Gemen . In addition, he devoted himself intensively to the study of mathematics; but his love was for Latin and Greek literature. He translated the Odes of Horace and toied with a publication early on.

In 1793 he obtained a licentiate in law and in the same year became a judge in the Free Glory of Papenburg. From 1797 he was rent master there and in 1809 ducal aremberg judge of the peace. After the dissolution of the Duchy of Aremberg, he became the Imperial French Justice of the Peace from 1811, also in Papenburg, and in the same year a member of the Justice Commission in Aschendorf (Meppen). He was a member of the "Westphalian Society for Culture and the Welfare of the Fatherland" (Minden).

Bueren wrote numerous occasional poems, songs and ballads in Low German, Latin and Greek, among others, which were published in various fiction magazines and muse almanacs . Another specialty were odes and anagrams in praise of the rulers: For the wedding ceremony of the ducal aremberg arrondissement prefect Dr. A. Heyl with a Demoiselle Sophie Rüffel on November 27, 1810, Bueren contributed a round song and choir . He dedicated an ode to Napoléon I's second wife , Empress Marie Louise , for the childbirth ceremony on March 20, 1811.

The Graecophile Bueren offered his manuscripts free of charge for publication in May 1826: “In order to also contribute a little to the help of the Greeks, I am offering all of my literary manuscripts, consisting of German, Latin, Greek and French own poems, reproductions and translations, especially in the translation of the 1st book of the Horazischen Odes, the pervigilii veneris by Catullus and reproductions of several Latin and Greek poets etc., about 40 to 50 printed sheets thick, to the Coppenrath bookshop for free, with the request that the pure profit, after deduction the printing costs, which the poor Greeks should be given. "(Raßmann 1866: 53)

Bueren was married twice, his first wife, Alexandrine Grothaus, died in 1814; this marriage had ten children. His second wife, Josephine Beltmann, met Bueren in 1817; children also had children from this marriage. One of Bueren's sons, Gottfried Wilhelm Bueren , followed in the legal footsteps of his father (most recently senior court attorney zu Meppen) and published small poetic articles in various magazines, but could not compete with the lavish literary production of his father. Bueren also dedicated a magazine article on his legal career to him.

Works

• Round song and choir on the occasion of the wedding ceremony of the Herzoglich Arembergischen Arrondissements-Prefect Doctoren A. Heyl with the Demoiselle Rüssel on November 27, 1810
• Ode to the birthing ceremony of Her Majesty the Most Exalted Empress M. Louise on March 20 , Lingen 1811
• To my son when I sent him 36 pistols to become a doctor of law and a notary ; in: Berliner Gesellschafter , born in 1820, No. 94
• Gottfried Bueren's Selected Poems. Acquired from the father's estate by Bernhard Alexander Bueren , Coppenrath, Münster 1868

literature

• Ernst Raßmann: News from the life and writings of Münsterland writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . Münster: Coppenrath 1866

Web links

• Bernhard Gottfried Bueren in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors