Jakob Vogel (poet)
Jakob Vogel (born December 11, 1816 in Glarus ; † April 22, 1899 in Glarus) was a Swiss poet and printer's owner . It was called the "bird of Glarus".
Life
Jakob Vogel started to work in a textile printing company at the age of eight . He continued his autodidactic education, read the Bible and the Göttingen muse almanac and is said to have owned a library of 600 books by the age of twenty. At the age of 21 he began a hike through Europe. Overcome by homesickness, he wrote his first poem. In 1839 he returned to Switzerland.
In 1843 he took over from his father-in-law Cosmus Freuler the first printing and publishing company founded in 1798 in the canton of Glarus on Landsgemeindeplatz . Among other things, he published an almanac of the muses, several volumes of his own poems, a four-volume work The poetic national literature of Switzerland from Haller to the present , edited by Robert Weber and Johann Jakob Honegger . Several attempts with a daily newspaper failed, as did a political career.
Vogel supported young poets, ran an open house, a “gathering place for almost all writers and poets in Switzerland” (JJ Honegger). His literary role model was Heinrich Heine . His own poems were often about nature, the mountains and the seasons, the local Glärnisch and the Klöntal .
His first wife Babette died in 1851. Jakob Vogel married again at the age of 78. Paralyzed on one side, he died on April 22nd, 1899 "in the mattress tomb like his role model Heinrich Heine".
In 1895 Jakob Spälti-Hefti bought the J. Vogel book printing company. The company still exists today as Spälti Druck AG in Glarus.
Works (selection)
- Memories of Emil. Published by J. Vogel, Glarus 1860
- Lyric poems. Glarus 1868
- Beauties and horrors of the Swiss alpine world. Glarus 1868
- The Klönthal. Glarus 1870
- Glärnisch in the light of poetry. Glarus 1873
- Poems. Zurich 1816; 14th edition J. Vogel, Glarus 1890. With a biographical-critical introduction by JJ Honegger
literature
- Franz Brümmer: Vogel, Jakob (from Glarus) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, p. 749 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ JJ Honegger: Jakob Vogel von Glarus . In: Poems by Vogel von Glarus , Glarus 1890.
- ↑ Laurenz Burlet: Glarus - from Flecken to Stadt pp. 1297–1301. Typescript, Glarus State Library.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vogel, Jakob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vogel von Glarus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss poet and printer owner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glarus |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1899 |
| Place of death | Glarus |