Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel

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Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (also Théophile Conrad Pfeffel ; born June 28, 1736 in Colmar ; † May 1, 1809 there ) was a German-writing writer, military scientist and educator from Alsace .

Life

Pfeffel's family came from the margraviate of Baden . He studied law at the pietistic Friedrichs University in Halle and still heard from Christian Wolff . An eye disease forced him to drop out of his studies in 1753. He returned to Colmar in 1754 via Dresden and Leipzig (where he met Christian Fürchtegott Gellert ). In 1763 he became court advisor in Darmstadt . In 1773 he opened the École militaire (since 1782 Académie militaire ) in Colmar for Protestant boys, most of whom belonged to the nobility . Among his students were Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg and Carl zu Isenburg . In 1783 he became an honorary member of the Grand Council of Biel . In 1803 he was President of the Colmar Consistory . In 1808 he was accepted as an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Almost blind from a cataract since 1758, Pfeffel was forced to support his family by publishing poems and prose in almanacs and other magazines after 1790, after he had lost almost his entire fortune in the French Revolution. Inspired by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , he wrote mainly fables with socio-critical and political teaching content as well as narrative poems ( Die Tobacco Pipe , Der Patermörer ).

Pfeffel was a member of the Helvetic Society and the Colmar Reading Society. His affiliation with Freemasonry was claimed but remained unproven. His son Gottlieb Conrad August Pfeffel (* 1759 in Colmar), who studied law in Göttingen , was accepted there in 1781 in the lodge to the golden circle . In 1783 he received Swiss citizenship . A school in Colmar bears his name, the Collège Pfeffel .

Works

Medal 1804

Posthumously, 20 volumes of Poetic and Prosaic Experiments were published , which are digitized on the server of the Freiburg University Library .

  • Biography of a Poodle and Other Satires . Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen 1987, ISBN 3-7846-0134-0 .
  • Political fables in stories and verses . Greno-Verlag, Nördlingen 1987, ISBN 3-89190-837-7 .

literature

  • Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel, satirist a. Philanthropist (1736-1809) . Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe 1986, ISBN 3-88705-019-3 . (Exhibition catalog)
  • Joseph Maria Bopp: Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel as a prose writer. Contributions to the knowledge of pre-ethical narrative literature . Trübner, Strasbourg 1917.
  • Gabriel Braeuner: Pfeffel l'européen. Esprit français et culture allemande en Alsace au XVIIIe siècle . Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1994, ISBN 2-7165-0321-4 .
  • Gabriel Braeuner: Epître à Pfeffel - A propos, de son "Epître à la postérité" rédigée durant l'été 1800. avec une préface de Bernard Vogler. Colmar (Editeur Jérôme Do Bentzinger) 2010, ISBN 978-2-84960-193-8 .
  • Anton Buhl: Pepper. Fables and poetic tales. Popular edition for the centenary . Publishing house Jung, Colmar 1909.
  • Edgar Guhde : Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel. A contribution to the cultural history of Alsace . Verlag Keller, Winterthur 1964.
  • Marc Hug:  Pfeffel, Gottlieb Konrad. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 27, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-393-2 , Sp. 1048-1055.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann, Walter Ernst Schäfer (Ed.): Between Directory and Empire. Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel's letters to Johann Gottfried Schweighäuser (1795–1808) . Manutius-Verlag, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-925678-29-8 .
  • Ernst Martin :  Pfeffel, Gottlieb Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 614-618.
  • Johann J. Rieder: Gottlieb Conrad Pfeffel. A biographical draft . Cotta, Stuttgart 1820.
  • Walter E. Schäfer:  Pfeffel, Gottlieb Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 307 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Karl Worzel: Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel's theatrical amusements. A contribution to the history of French drama in Germany . Verlag Schmidt, Bruchsal 1911 (also dissertation, University of Heidelberg 1911).
  • [Catalog] Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel: satirist and philanthropist (1736–1809) ; [an exhibition by the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe in cooperation with the city of Colmar], ed. from the Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe: Badische Landesbibliothek, 1986. DNB 870180657

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Steffens: Freemasons in Germany. Frankfurt 1966, p. 573.
  2. ↑ Files of the lodge in the walk. Staatsarchiv Berlin, Sign.5.2 G 31 No. 19, No. 81 Bl. 31, No. 82 Bl. 65
personal data
SURNAME Pfeffel, Gottlieb Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfeffel, Théophile Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss writer, war scientist, educator and school founder
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Colmar
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1809
Place of death Colmar