Gustav Parish

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Gustav Parish
Memorial plaque to the parish in Guldental

August Konrad Gustav Pfarrius (born December 31, 1800 in Heddesheim , † August 15, 1884 in Cologne ) was a German poet , teacher and professor . He became known as the "singer of the Nahe valley ". In memory of him, streets in Guldental, Bad Kreuznach and Cologne-Lindenthal are named after him.

Life

School and study

Pfarrius was born as the eldest son of the parish priest Georg Konrad Pfarrius and his wife Elisabeth Lade. He attended grammar school in Kreuznach , walking the 6 km distance every day.

During his studies in 1818 he became a member of the Halle fraternity . After dropping out of his theology studies in Halle, the parish studied Latin, French and history with Ernst Moritz Arndt in Bonn . There he was friends with Hoffmann von Fallersleben , Karl Simrock , Heinrich Heine and Anton Broicher , among others .

Job and family

He received his doctorate in 1823 and in the same year took up a position as a teacher in Saarbrücken . In 1834 he got a job as a teacher and professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne . Pfarrius married Luise Tenge there in 1840, and the marriage resulted in five sons and two daughters. In 1858 he received a professorship, but due to an eye disease he had to retire on September 1, 1863. In 1858 the parish had Haus Herresberg near Remagen built as a country house .

Connection to the Nahe valley

Already on his daily walk to school Pfarrius had the opportunity to get to know and love the beauty of the Nahe valley. Before he took up his new position in Cologne in 1834, he took a walk through the Nahe valley to Kreuznach. On this occasion he probably also made the decision to sing about the Nahe valley from the source to the mouth. His first volume of poetry, The Nahe Valley in Songs , was published in 1838. His connection to the Nahe can also be felt in his later works. The story of Bastel Jakob is set in the Nahe valley, the Klause am Sulmenbach takes place in the Guldenbachtal and Heddesheim.

Works

  • 1838 The Nahethal in songs
  • 1844 Karlmann
  • 1844 Chriemhilde's revenge
  • 1850 forest songs
  • 1852 rubble and epheu
  • 1860 poems: new collection
  • 1861 Between Soonwald and Westrich
  • 1863 appearance and reality
  • 1869 natural and human life
  • The end of the house of Dhaun , narration

literature

  • Johann Jakob Merlo:  Parish, Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 610.
  • Rainer Seil: GULDENTAL . Guldental community self-published, 1986
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 538-539.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad Adenauer and Volker Gröbe: Streets and squares in Lindenthal , JP Bachem, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7616-1018-1 , p. 124f.

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personal data
SURNAME Parish, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parish, August Konrad Gustav (full name); Parish, G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, teacher and professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Heddesheim, today part of Guldental
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1884
Place of death Cologne