Joachim Christian Blum

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Joachim Christian Blum (born November 19, 1739 in Rathenow ; died August 28, 1790 there ) was a German poet.

Life

Blum's father Adolf Christian Blum (1702–1750) was a businessman in Rathenow, his mother Sabina, née Stenger, was the daughter of a businessman from Neuruppin . When he was five years old, he got under a horse and was critically injured. From then on his health was impaired. After attending the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin , he studied philosophy and fine sciences in Frankfurt an der Oder from 1739 . The esthetician Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten was his teacher there and he made friends with Thomas Abbt, who was a year older than him . Because of his health problems, he could neither take over his father's business nor pursue an academic career and lived as a private person without an office in his hometown until his death.

In his poems and epigrams, in which, in addition to spiritual, patriotic and moral themes, anacreontic motifs dominate, Blum remains firmly rooted in the Rococo. More important are the Idylls (1773), in which he tried to follow Salomon Gessner , whom he admired . He is more independent in his walks , in which he treated moral and religious topics in the manner of popular philosophy with a popular educational goal. His inclination for folklore and his ties to his homeland were expressed in the Teutsches Sprüchwörterbuch (1780/1782) and in the play Das Liberyte Ratenau (1775).

Blum was a respected and popular author in his day. Orders for his collected poems, which he published in two volumes as a prenumeration edition in 1776 , were received far beyond Prussia. The Russian Tsarina Catherine II is said to have read it "with pleasure". A review attributed to the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the Frankfurt scholarly advertisements should be noted as a critical voice in which the “feeling made” and the lack of originality were criticized.

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SURNAME Blum, Joachim Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Rathenow
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1790
Place of death Rathenow