Heinrich August Kerndörffer

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Heinrich August Kerndörffer (born December 16, 1769 in Leipzig , † September 23, 1846 in Reudnitz near Leipzig) was a German author and private scholar.

Life

Kerndörffer studied philosophy in Leipzig and then, from the summer semester of 1818, worked as a lecturer at the university and as a private scholar and as a teacher at the Nikolaischule . From 1805 he was a member of the Apollo Masonic Lodge in Leipzig.

Kerndörffer was known and successful at the time as the author of many trivial novels in various genres and of children's books ; He was also the author of magic books and of writings on declamation ( oratory ), freemasonry and education . In literary studies he is known for having taught Heinrich von Kleist as a declamation teacher.

For the Quantitative Linguistics Kerndörffer is of interest because he has obviously created one of the first statistics on the frequency of letters in German. However, the statistics are not handed down in detail, only in broad outline.

Works

  • The court of Askaia, or the story of a sensible fool. Müller, Leipzig 1796. ( digitized version )
  • Carlo Cosani (= Heinrich August Kerndörffer): Comus or new amusements in the field of natural magic and sleight of hand. In: magazine for industry and literature . Leipzig 1828-1830
  • Heinrich August Kerndörffer: Easily comprehensible instructions for cryptography or the different types of secret writing art, in connection with the shorthand and tachygraphy or the art of typing and their application for the manifold conditions and matters of state life of recent times . Publishing house by L. Fort, Leipzig 1835.

The two works cited are missing from the otherwise extensive catalog raisonné of

  • Heinz Rupp & Ludwig Lang [Ed.]: German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical handbook , founded by Wilhelm Kosch. Third, completely revised edition. Eighth volume. Francke, Bern / Munich 1981.

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Best : Heinrich August Kerndörffer (1769-1846). In: Glottometrics 18, 2009, pp. 94–96 (PDF full text ). (Reprinted in: Karl-Heinz Best (Ed.): Studies on the History of Quantitative Linguistics. Volume 1. RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2015, pages 86-88. ISBN 978-3-942303-30-9 .)
  • Franz Brümmer : Deutsches Dichter-Lexikon: biographical and bibliographical communications about German poets of all times; with special consideration of the present. Volume 1. Krüll, Eichstätt (inter alia) 1876.
  • Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works of German language. Vol. 6. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1990.
  • Hartmut Weidemeier: Heinrich August Kerndörffer. Investigations into the trivial novel of the Goethe era. Dissertation, Bonn 1967.

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich August Kerndörffer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus: Heinrich von Kleist and Heinrich August Kerndörffer. On the poetics of reading aloud and declamation. In: Kleist-Jahrbuch 2001 (pp. 55–88). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2001.
  2. ↑ In: Kerndörffer (1835), pp. 98, 101.
personal data
SURNAME Kerndörffer, Heinrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and private scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1846
Place of death Reudnitz near Leipzig