Johann Christoph Sachse

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Johann Christoph Sachse (born August 13, 1762 in Cobstädt , district of Gotha ; † June 20, 1822 in Teplitz-Schönau , Bohemia ) was a German writer and library servant under Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library Weimar .

Life

Johann Christoph Sachse was born as the son of Johann Georg Sachse, who was commissary of the troops (including the army of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg ) during the Seven Years' War , and Barbara Elisabeth, née. Born Böhnhardt, and on the day of his birth because of weakness notgetauft .

Sachses extensive wanderings through Germany and the Netherlands prompted him to publish his experiences in the book Der Deutsche Gil Blas or the life, wanderings and fates of Johann Christoph Sachses, a Thuringian in 1822, a few weeks before his death. Since Sachse worked as a library clerk in the Weimar library from 1800, he was acquainted with Goethe, who wrote the foreword to the book mentioned.

Works

  • The German Gil Blas or Life, Walks and Fates Johann Christoph Sachses, a Thuringian / written by himself . Introduced by Goethe . New edition based on the text of the first edition from 1822 with an afterword by Wulf Segebrecht . Winkler, Munich 1983. ( books.google.de )

literature

  • Otto Lerche: Goethe and the Weimar Library. Leipzig 1929, p. 52 ff.
  • Wulf Segebrecht : Epilogue in the German Gil Blas or life, walks and fates of Johann Christoph Sachses, a Thuringian / written by himself. Introduced by Goethe. New edition, based on the text of the first edition from 1822. Munich: Winkler, 1983, p. 227 ff.
  • Peter Lahnstein: Report of a "good old days" - certificates and reports 1750–1805. dtv 1290, 1977, pp. 268-270
  • Françoise Knopper, Wolfgang Fink: The natural prose writers Johann Kaspar Steube and Johann Christoph Sachse . In: Françoise Knopper, Wolfgang Fink: The offside as the center. Autobiographies of outsiders in the 18th century . Universitätsverlag, Halle-Wittenberg 2017, pp. 359–386.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Teplitz-Schönau death register, Vol. 19, 1801–1848, fol. 255: 'died June 20th, buried June 22nd, 1822, Mr. Johann Christoph Sachse, servant at the Weimar library of Weimar, Evangelical religion, married, 63 years old, died of paralysis , buried by August Fritsch, Caplan
personal data
SURNAME Sachse, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and library servant under Goethe
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Cobstädt
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1822
Place of death Teplitz-Schönau