Johann August Weppen

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Johann August Weppen (born January 28, 1741 in Northeim ; † August 18, 1812 at Gut Wickershausen near Hollenstedt ) was a German civil servant and writer.

Life

Johann August Weppen was the son of the rector of the Northeimer Stadtschule (today: Gymnasium Corvinianum ), Johann Georg Weppen; his brother was Friedrich Georg Weppen, who died early as a teacher in Clausthal . His brother, who was studying with him at the same time, was awarded the poeta laureatus by the rector of Göttingen University , Georg Heinrich Ayrer . Henriette Weppen also wrote poetic works by his two sisters.

A few years after his birth, his father was transferred to Katlenburg as a preacher ; there he was taught by his father until Easter 1757, when he went to the city school in Northeim.

1760 enrolled him at the University of Göttingen and began with a study of the law ; Due to the Seven Years' War , Göttingen was occupied alternately from 1757 to 1762, which meant that he was only able to study under very difficult circumstances.

In the autumn of 1763 he finished his studies and went back to his father after unsuccessfully negotiating a position as a private tutor ; at home he worked as a lawyer .

In 1764 he was employed as an auditor at the Brunstein Office and was appointed actuary there in 1766 ; in the same year, however, he switched to the position of court clerk in Oldershausen in the summer .

For health reasons, he resigned his position as a judicial officer in Oldershausen in 1795 and retired to his estate at Wickershausen, where he worked as a squire, lawyer and writer.

Johann August Weppen was married to Eleonore (widowed Müller) († 1804), sister of Hans Ernst Bütemeister, since 1789 ; they had a son together:

  • Friedrich Weppen (* 1791), writer and composer .

He spent the last two years of his life almost completely blind.

Writing

Johann August Weppen already wrote poems and fables in his childhood. Later he wrote poetic verses, fables, songs, epigrams , poetic epistles and comic stories; in doing so, he was guided by the narrative style of Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae and Christoph Martin Wieland .

He published his writings in the Göttingen and Hamburg Muses Almanacs and in the Almanac of the German Muses . He published the poem Walpurgis Night in his volume Poems as early as 1783 , even before Johann Wolfgang von Goethe popularized this name in Faust (Volume I) in 1808 . He also published in 1782 in the Hannoversche Magazin , 1786 in the Journal von und für Deutschland , 1788 in the Jahrbuch für die Menschheit .

Some of his songs were set to music by Joseph Haydn and Johann Adam Hiller .

He was in written contact with many scholars and poets from Göttingen and Hanover and was a member of various learned societies.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hollenstedt and Gut Wickershausen. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  2. ^ Karl Goedeke: Eighth book: From world peace to the French revolution 1830: Poetry of general education. Department VI . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005258-8 ( google.de [accessed on March 31, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Gustav Schilling: Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences: Bd. Riesenharfe-Zyka. 1838 . FH Köhler, 1838 ( google.de [accessed on March 31, 2020]).
  4. ^ Johann August Weppen: Poems . Schmieder, 1783 ( google.de [accessed March 31, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Weppen, Johann August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES YES W; Weppen, Johannes August; YES W
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Northeim
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1812
Place of death at Gut Wickershausen near Hollenstedt