Heinrich Schaumberger

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Heinrich Schaumberger

Heinrich Schaumberger (born December 15, 1843 in Neustadt near Coburg , † March 16, 1874 in Davos ) was a German teacher and writer .

Life

Heinrich Schaumberger was born as the son of the teacher and cantor Georg Friedrich Schaumberger in Neustadt an der Haide in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg . In 1848 his father was transferred to Weißenbrunn vorm Wald in Upper Franconia on the border with the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen , where his grandparents lived. The influence of the grandparents was strengthened by the early death of his mother in 1853. Schaumberger stayed on his grandparents' farm until the age of 16 and endeavored to gain additional knowledge in addition to the knowledge he acquired in his father's elementary school to provide in an autodidactic way as well as to learn to play the piano and organ.

At the age of 17 he left his grandparents 'farm to attend the teachers' college in Coburg in 1861. In 1864, after completing his training, he received the third teaching position at the school in Einberg . Here he married the teacher's daughter Clara Bauer in 1866 and successfully applied for a school position in Ahlstadt on the Long Mountains, which he took up in the same year.

After the birth of his son Carl, his young wife died. The death of his father in 1869 enabled him to be transferred to Weißenbrunn, where the most productive phase in Schaumberger's literary work began. He soon became close friends with the local clergyman, who also worked as a writer, Oskar Bagge ( pseudonym Josias Nordheim). A marriage with his daughter Magdalene was of a heavy neck and lung disease prevents foam Bergers, which him to give up his teaching profession and a longer spa breaks in Swiss forced Davos. After returning to Weißenbrunn, Schaumberger married Magdalene Bagge in 1872, although his illness had not improved significantly. In the same year he had to go to Davos again.

On March 16, 1874, Schaumberger finally succumbed to his illness in Davos at the age of only 30.

The school house in Weißenbrunn, where he and his father worked as teachers, was converted into a local museum and dedicated to the life of Heinrich Schaumberger.

Artistic creation

Schaumberger's literary work was determined by the people and the landscape of his Upper Franconian homeland. The realistic descriptions of his environmental observations down to the smallest details and the literary condensation in rapidly popular folk tales made Schaumberger a successful Franconian writer. His extensive knowledge of the social situation of the people in his homeland and neighboring Thuringia make his works appear as authentic evidence of his time. Most were not published until after his death. His Upper Franconian village stories were illustrated by the Annaberg painter Rudolf Köselitz .

Works (in selection)

  • Im Hirtenhaus , 1876 (1896 edition, illustrations by Rudolf Köselitz: online  - Internet Archive )
  • Happy calamity , 1876
  • Father and Son , 1876
  • Bergheimer Musikanten-Stories , 1876
  • Fritz Reinhardt , Roman, 1876
  • Too late , village novel, 1876

literature

  • Franz Brümmer :  Schaumberger, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 641-643.
  • W. Burmester: In memory of Heinrich Schaumberger's 60th birthday. Bielefeld: Helmich (1904) (= pedagogical treatises; 82)
  • Ernst Hauck: Heinrich Schaumberger. A master of Upper Franconian village history (1843–1874). In: From Coburg city and country. Coburg 1961. S. X-XVIII.
  • Emil Herold: Heinrich Schaumberger. In: Fränkische Heimat, vol. 15 (1936), April. Pp. 99-100.
  • K. Höfer: Heinrich Schaumberger (=  pedagogical treatises . Volume 4 , no. 4 ). Helmich, Bielefeld 1899, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6: 1-92317 .
  • Hugo Christof Heinrich Meyer: Heinrich Schaumberger and Rudolf Köselitz. Poet and illustrator. Wolfenbüttel: Zwißler 1901.
  • Hugo Möbius: Heinrich Schaumberger. His life and his works. Represented from authentic sources. Wolfenbüttel: Zwißler (1882).
  • Friedrich Schilling: H. Schaumberger. In: From Coburg city and country. Coburg 1952. p. 41.
  • Heinrich Schmidtkanz: Heinrich Schaumberger's "Bergheim" and the characters of his muse. A guide through the poet's place. Neustadt bei Coburg: Patzschke 1929.
  • Heinrich Schmidtkanz: To our homeland poet Heinrich Schaumberger on the 75th anniversary of his death on March 16, 1949. Self-published in 1949.
  • Friederike Schneyer: Personal memories of Heinrich Schaumberger. Langensalza: Beyer 1899. (= Friedrich Mann's Pedagogical Magazine; 128)

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personal data
SURNAME Schaumberger, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt near Coburg
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1874
Place of death Davos