Johann Chrysostomus Senn

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Johann Chrysostomus Senn (born April 1, 1795 in Pfunds , † September 30, 1857 in Innsbruck ; pseudonym: Bombastus Bebederwa ) was a political poet of the Vormärz .

Life

Johann Chrysostomus Senn
Gravestone at the military cemetery

Johann Chrysostomus Senn was a son of the freedom fighter Franz Michael Senn . From 1807 he lived in Vienna and attended the academic high school there. Together with Franz Schubert , Senn was a pupil of the Wiener Stadtkonvikt. After leaving school, he first studied philosophy , law and medicine , but did not finish any of these studies. Eventually he became the tutor of Baron Anton von Doblhoff-Dier . From 1815 his political interest became more and more evident. He was one of the pre-March forbidden fraternity at (he was in 1819 the fraternity Lichen district of Vienna and in 1823 the fraternity Liberation Germania Innsbruck joined), and together with Schubert , the poet Johann Mayrhofer , the jurist and later Redemptorists Franz von Bruchmann , the painter Leopold Kupelwieser and the doctor Ernst von Feuchtersleben a group who read the German classics and early romantics, propagated German idealism , which was forbidden in Austria , and articulated criticism of Metternich's regime . Because of his revolutionary ideas he was arrested in 1820, thrown in prison for almost a year and finally deported to Tyrol . There he did eight years of military service and rose to lieutenant. A middle-class career was hardly possible and so he lived in Innsbruck as a diary or worked in the district administration until his death in 1857 . Senn died totally lonely in the Innsbruck garrison hospital and was buried in the military cemetery in Pradl. His friend Adolf Pichler had a memorial stone erected for him in 1860.

In 1907 the Senngasse in Vienna- Simmering (11th district) was named after him.

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His friend Franz Schubert set his two poems Schwanengesang and Selige Welt to music . Senn, who only published a single volume of poetry during his lifetime, became popular in Tyrol through the poem Der Rote Tiroler Adler . Because of this popular poem, which was later picked up and set to music by national propaganda, a street in Innsbruck was named after him. Adolf Pichler and Moriz Enzinger had his work published in part, but the majority of his works are largely unpublished and unknown to this day.

  • Johann Senn: Poems , Innsbruck 1838.
  • Adolf Pichler (Ed.): Glosses on Göthe's Faust. From an estate of Johann Senn, Innsbruck 1862.
The red Tyrolean eagle

literature

  • Sigurd Paul Scheichl:  Senn Johann Chrysostomos. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 177 f. (Direct links on p. 177 , p. 178 ).
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Senn, Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 34th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, pp. 119–123 ( digitized version ).
  • Anton Schlossar:  Senn, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 33 f.
  • Moriz Enzinger: Franz v. Bruchmann the friend J. Chr. Senns and the count Aug. Platen. An autobiography from the Vienna Schubert circle along with letters. In: Publications of the Museum Ferdinandeum. 10, 1930, pp. 117-379.
  • Moriz Enzinger: On the biography of the Tyrolean poet Joh. Chrys. Herdsman In: Archives for the Study of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures. 156, 1930, pp. 169-183.
  • Ilija Dürhammer : Dioscuri in the Schubert circle. Senn, Bruchmann and Schober. The philosophical triumvirate. In: Schubert through glasses. In: Mitteilungen des Internationale Franz Schubert Institut , 19, 1997, pp. 65–80.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 419-420.
  • A depraved poet . In: The Gazebo . Issue 48, 1860, pp. 764–765 ( full text [ Wikisource ] obituary).

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Moriz Enzinger: On the biography of the Tyrolean poet Joh. Chrys. Senn . In: Archive for the Study of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures 156, 1930, p. 169.
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 419.
personal data
SURNAME Senn, Johann Chrysostom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bebederwa, Bombastus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian political poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfunds , Fürstete Grafschaft Tirol, Habsburg Empire, Holy Roman Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1857
Place of death Innsbruck , Austrian Empire