Johann Gottfried Schnabel

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Schnabel's house in Stolberg (Harz)

Johann Gottfried Schnabel (pseudonym Gisander * 7. November 1692 in Sandersdorf , † between April 1744 and April 1748) was a German writer of the Enlightenment .

Life

Schnabel had been orphaned since 1694 and initially grew up with relatives and friends. He attended the school founded by August Hermann Francke in Halle . From 1706 and 1709 he completed an apprenticeship as a barber , until 1717 he served as a field shear in various armies, including as a participant in the War of the Spanish Succession .

After that he probably lived in Hamburg first , but in 1719 apparently became a master barber in Querfurt . Documentary evidence is only available when he was granted citizenship in Stolberg in the Harz Mountains , where he moved with his wife and family in 1724. From 1731 to 1738 he was editor of the newspaper Stolbergische Sammlung New and Merck-worthy World History . At the same time, in nearby Nordhausen , he published his main work Wunderliche Fata einer See -fahrer, which was reissued in 1828 in an anonymous adaptation by Ludwig Tieck under the title Die Insel Felsenburg . His novel The Cavalier tumbling around in the mad garden of love, which falls in the transitional period between the courtly-gallant novel and the first modern novels, achieved great fame and new editions until the second half of the 20th century . Johann Gottfried Schnabel died between 1744 and 1748.

Works (selection)

  • Strange fata of some seafarers, strange Alberti Julii ... 4 volumes. Nordhausen 1731–1743 and more often
  • Life, hero and death story of the most famous general of bad times Eugenii Francisci . Stolberg 1736
  • The Cavalier stumbling around in the maze of love . Nordhausen 1738
    • New edition critical of the text: The CAVALIER staggering around in the mad garden of love . Edited by Marcus Czerwionka with the assistance of Robert Wohlleben. Röhrig University Press, St. Ingbert 2014 (Schnabeliana), ISBN 978-3-86110-568-8
  • The Printz who fell from the moon and then rose to the sun of happiness . Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1750

literature

Insel Felsenburg, 1st part, 1731

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Gottfried Schnabel  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Johann Gottfried Schnabel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b The term post quem is the last surviving letter from April 1744, terminus ante quem the lesson from a Schnabel son from April 4, 1748, in which his father is noted as already deceased. In addition Gerd Schubert: New find on Johann Gottfried Schnabel's death date. Arno Schmidt's “research” on the author of “Insel Felsenburg” lasted 50 years . In: Bargfelder Bote , Liefer 354–356, August 2012, pp. 42–45, here p. 43; in more detail under the title News about Johann Gottfried Schnabel's death date ... in the yearbook of the Johann Gottfried Schnabel Society , year 2009–2012, p. 9ff.
  2. ↑ Viktor Bertermann: Some observations on Schnabel's Cavalier and his strangely contradicting sexual morality. In: Günter Dammann (Ed.): Johann Gottfried Schnabel's Cavalier novel. Measurement of a work that has long been underestimated. Würzburg 2017, p. 55 .
personal data
SURNAME Schnabel, Johann Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gisander (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1692
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandersdorf near Bitterfeld
DATE OF DEATH after 1744