Johann Friedrich Riederer
Johann Friedrich Riederer , pseudonym: IriFloR , (born February 20, 1678 in Nuremberg ; † June 25, 1734 ) was a German poet .
Life
The son of Christoph Riederer, the deacon of St. Egidien , became a full-time businessman, but better known as a poet under the name IriFloR. At the age of five he went to the Aegidianum grammar school , where the then vice-principal and later principal Samuel Faber inspired him for poetry. Probably due to the death of his father, he left high school in 1692 at the age of 14. This was followed by a six-year commercial apprenticeship with the merchants Weinberger and Geiger in Nuremberg.
In 1698 Riederer first traveled to London via Frankfurt , Cologne, Düsseldorf and Amsterdam. He stayed there for a year and a half and, as a travel companion he offered to the Russian Peter Posnicov, traveled via Canterbury , Dover and Calais, Normandy and Piccardie to Paris , where he arrived on New Year's Day 1700. He stayed in Paris for two months. In the same year he took up a position at the Tourtons trading house in Lyon, where he remained for another year and a half. In 1702 he returned to Nuremberg via Geneva, Switzerland and Swabia.
The turmoil of the War of the Spanish Succession prompted him in 1703 to go to Vienna via Bohemia and take up a commercial position there again. In 1708 he returned to Nuremberg again, where he was elected to the council in 1710 and accepted into the Pegnesian Flower Order in 1713 . His author's name became IriFloR, his symbol the iris with the motto: "Against the funny startups!"
Riederer spent a second stay in France on a business mission in 1720 - without much success. Back in Nuremberg, he mainly taught Dutch, English, French and Spanish - languages in which he also wrote poetry.
Works (selection)
The following list according to Zedler's Universal Lexicon :
- Corpse-wedding-mixed poems (Nuremberg, 1711).
- The well-troubled Kauffmann .
- The mysterious number three and seven .
- Poetic Schertz Cabinet .
- Aesopi's fables in German verse
- Actual portrait of a faithful school teacher in the person of Samuel Faber .
- Prognosticon on the Turkish Empire
- Adventurous World in a Pickled Herring Cap or Satyrical Poems (1718).
- A catalog of 1050 cabalistic paragrams, which was discussed in more detail during the period.
Today, the Abentheuerliche Welt in a pickled herring cap or Satyrical Poems collection will be accorded greater importance, as they contain the earliest German satires on the now widespread reading of novels.
literature
- Riederer, Johann Friedrich. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 31, Leipzig 1742, column 1531-1533.
- Olaf Simons: Marteau's Europe or the novel before it became literature . Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta 2001, ISBN 90-420-1226-9 , pp. 446-451.
- Franz Brümmer : Riederer, Johann Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 530.
Web links
- Works by and about Johann Friedrich Riederer in the German Digital Library
- Johann Friedrich Riederer: Satyra from the love novels (Nuremberg, 1718).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riederer, Johann Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | IriFloR (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1678 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1734 |