Hermann Greaves
Hermann Grieben (born February 8, 1822 in Köslin ; † September 24, 1890 ) was a German journalist and poet . After working as a journalist in his native Pomerania, he worked from 1859 until his death in the Rhine Province as editor of the Kölnische Zeitung .
Life
Greaves was born in Köslin as the son of the sub-principal at the local high school; for a long time he had lessons from his father. In 1841 greaves went to the University of Breslau . There he initially studied theology , but soon turned to the fields of philology , history and literature. In 1843 he published his first volume of poetry with Lieder eines Studenten . In 1845 he was with a dissertation on Dante to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1846 to 1848 he worked in Laskowitz in West Prussia as a private tutor .
But he decided to become a journalist . After a traineeship in his home town at the Kösliner Zeitung , he became editor of the Ostsee-Zeitung in Stettin in 1850 , then in 1852 editor of the Lübeckische Zeitung . As early as 1853 he went back to Stettin, where he was the editor-in-chief of the Pommerschen Zeitung , a daily newspaper founded in 1849 under the title "Pommersche Bürgerzeitung" and published until 1866. Here he worked until 1859; his successor as editor was Wilhelm Dunker .
In 1859 Grieben went to Cologne to become editor of the Kölnische Zeitung . He worked in this capacity for three decades until his death in 1890.
Works (selection)
- Songs of a student . 1841.
- Dear women. Poems . 1854.
- Ernst Moritz Arndt of Rügen. Contribution to the Arndt monument on the Rugard . 1869. (poems)
- Collected poems . 1875. (3rd edition 1884 under the title Rheinische Wanderlieder und other seals )
literature
- Franz Brümmer : Greaves, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 544 f.
- Bruno Jahn: The German-language press: A biographical-bibliographical handbook. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11710-8 , p. 366 ( online ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Grieben in the catalog of the German National Library
Footnotes
- ↑ Martin Wehrmann : The Pomeranian newspapers and magazines in old and new times. Society for Newspaper and Book Printing in Pomerania, 1936, p. 80.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greaves, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koslin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 1890 |