Jakob Frey
Jakob Frey (born May 13, 1824 in Gontenschwil , † December 30, 1875 in Bern ; pseudonyms: J. Reif , F. Kuhn , F. Imhoof , JA ) was a Swiss writer .
Life
Jakob Frey was the son of Melchior Frey and Maria Hunziker from Leimbach . In Reinach he attended the district school in 1837 and from 1840 the grammar school. There he was u. a. Taught by Ernst Ludwig Rochholz . After passing the high school diploma, he studied in Tübingen from 1844 and later in Munich . The outbreak of the Sonderbund War in 1847 prompted Frey to do his service as a voluntary assistant on Emil Rothpletzt's staff . After the end of the war, Frey returned to Tübingen to complete his studies in philology and philosophy at the University of Zurich in the spring of 1848 with Johann Jakob Hottinger .
In 1850 Frey took over the management of the Swiss messenger and was elected by his community to the Grand Council and its secretary. In 1854 he married Rosa Hunziker von Oberkulm . Since he could not gain any taste from the civil service, he moved to Bern in 1856, where he was responsible for the editorship of the Berner Zeitung and, at the same time, what attracted him particularly, the task of regularly serving the Neue Schweizerische Unterhaltungsblatt , published by the same publisher, with his stories . In 1858, Frey took the initiative to bring together local writers. In 1861 Frey moved with his family to Basel, where he managed the Schweizerische Illustrierte Zeitung until October 1862 , after which he only worked as an ordinary employee. In 1865 he returned to Bern to write for the Swiss magazine .
Frey decided to work as a freelance writer in 1868 and moved to Aarau. But his financial and literary plight continued until 1871.
Jakob Frey created over a hundred stories in the 25 years of his work and his achievements in this field are among the pearls of Swiss literature. His son Adolf Frey (1855–1920) published further, previously unpublished writings and a biography after the death of his father.
Works
- Between the Jura and the Alps. Stories and images of life . 2 volumes. Weber, Leipzig 1858
- The orphan of Holligen. Story from the days of the fall of the old Swiss Confederation . Krüsi, Basel 1863
- Swiss images. Stories from home . 2 volumes. Sauerlander, Aarau 1864
- New Swiss images. Narratives . Frobeen, Bern 1877
- Collected stories . 5 volumes. Sauerlander, Aarau 1897
- The promise fulfilled . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 23, 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 1–107. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
Fonts
literature
- Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Frey, Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Adolf Frey: Jakob Frey. A picture of life. In: Collected Stories , Volume 5, Aarau 1897
- Albert Schumann: Frey, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 360 f.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Jakob Frey in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Jakob Frey in the Gutenberg-DE project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frey, Jakob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reif, J. (pseudonym); Kuhn, F. (pseudonym); Imhoof, F. (pseudonym); YES (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gontenschwil |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1875 |
| Place of death | Bern |