Heinrich Stilling's domestic life

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Heinrich Stillings domestic life (originally Henrich Stillings domestic life ) is the fourth part of the autobiography of Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling , published in 1789. As a continuation of Heinrich Stillings Jugend (1777), Heinrich Stillings Jünglingsjahre (1778) and Heinrich Stillings Wanderership (1778) he describes his life as a doctor and as a professor of economics. There was still Heinrich Stilling's formative years (1804).

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Stilling and his wife Christine move to Schönenthal in 1772 . The former Pietist friends keep their distance, and the practice is slow to start. The accidental cure for epilepsy is attracting new people. Accused of being a charlatan by envious people, Stilling has to be examined by the college. After his wife's sick leave, he dismisses the negligent maid.

The Vollkraft brothers comfort Stilling in his situation, although he shows no one his worries, and motivate him to write. His commitment to the poor and the diversification of his demands drive him into debt, but divine coincidences always save him just in time. A star-blind patient's emphatic desire for therapy leads him to star stabbing, which, together with an emergency delivery, in turn earns him respect, but also anger. Christine has a son after a daughter. Stilling's father comes to visit, shortly afterwards university friend Goethe with Lavater , with whom he becomes friends.

Stilling travels home to Goethe in Frankfurt to operate on a wealthy star blind man who pays him a thousand guilders, although it fails. Most of the other patients are penniless, and people mockery again at home. Another decent visit to Frankfurt at your own expense doesn't go any better. Stilling finds friends in a scientific reading group and at the opening of a mineral spring. Goethe's letter of money, who had his youth story printed without his knowledge, saved him from his debts when moving his apartment.

Stilling is shocked that he is despised for his novel as a free spirit and that patients are warned that he is crazy. When he explained his situation to a friend from the state economy, he found him a professorship for agriculture, technology, trade and cattle medicine at the new Ritterburg Academy in 1778. Stilling sees his destiny. The Schönenthalers blaspheme, especially when the plan seems to be shattered, which it interprets as the purification of Providence. After an unsuccessful arm amputation, he will only practice star stitching in the future. His creditors are so generous that he has just what he needs. After talking to his father-in-law, he goes to Rittersburg with his wife and children .

The place is in a rocky landscape with fir forests and old castles, but they are welcomed. Stilling holds lectures and writes his book An attempt at a basic teaching of all camera sciences . Unfortunately, he spent himself financially on the job to restore an estate. Two envious scholars try to harm him through his Protestant religion. Under the pressure of debt, he published the novels Florentin von Fahledorn and Theodore von der Linden . Christine falls ill and dies in 1781.

Stilling brings up the children and lives sadly alone until the Kühlenbach couple move in with him. When they move away, Stilling makes various marriage proposals that fail. He realizes that his first marriage was not the will of Providence, to which he now surrenders. Chancellor Sophie von la Roche, whom he had met while moving here in Koblenz, wrote to him about her virtuous friend Selma. Stilling meets Selma with her brother in her garden. One evening as a guest in the ornate garden of Kaufmann pain she found out about his debts by letter, but stayed with him.

The author summarizes Selma's life story, who had to endure a lot as a half-orphan, and reproduces the speech of the pastor friend about the wedding on August 16, 1782 in Kreuznach. You go on a wedding trip in two carriages to the Count's Palace of Geisenheim and through the Niederwald. On the way back across the Rhine, the women are almost driven into Binger Loch by drunk ferrymen. Selma takes over the child-rearing and household budget, after all they are debt-free. In 1784 the academy moved to Heidelberg, where he was popular with his star piercing and a good anniversary speech and was promoted to Marburg in 1787 so that he could work out his economic system. Stilling's father-in-law dies. The father comes to visit.

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In places Stilling explains the style of his rendering with factual loyalty. He seems to interpret every course of events in hindsight as the providence that will purify it and move it forward at the right time, and concludes the book with counsel on Christian charity. Except for Stilling's hymn of praise from the 118th Psalm of David as an appendix. Christine recites a hymn among the lilies of those joys when she dies . A poem is set in stone in Merchant Pain's Garden. Stilling's own imagery is occasionally recognizable when ugly water is described as snake-shaped, autumn is equated with mourning or when words like cool dew on burning hearts are spoken of.

Mentioned places, people and books

The place Schönthal is, as in earlier volumes Elberfeld , Knights Castle is Kaiserslautern . In this volume , Stilling met Lavater , whose physiognomy must have inspired him significantly. Little mention is made of books that have been read ( Euler's letters to a German princess ; The life and opinions of Magister Sebaldus Nothankers ), but some of Stilling's first own publications: Heinrich Stillings Jugend ; Ase-Neitha, an oriental story ; The sling of a shepherd boy against the scornful Philistine, the author of the Sebald Nothanker ; Theodicy of the shepherd boy for the correction and defense of the slingshot ; The story of Herr von Morgenthau ; Attempt of a basic theory of all camera sciences ; Florentine of Fahledorn ; Theodore von der Linden .

literature

  • Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich: life story. Complete text after the first prints (1777-1817). With an afterword by Wolfgang Pfeiffer-Belli. Pp. 228-344. Munich, 1968. (Winkler Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06037-1 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich: Life story. Complete text after the first prints (1777-1817). With an afterword by Wolfgang Pfeiffer-Belli. P. 291, 308, 331. Munich, 1968. (Winkler Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06037-1 )
  2. ^ Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich: Life story. Complete text after the first prints (1777-1817). With an afterword by Wolfgang Pfeiffer-Belli. P. 253, 297. Munich, 1968. (Winkler Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06037-1 ); But especially compare the character of the researcher in Jung-Stilling's novel Das Heimweh .

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