Johann Jacob Mussäus

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Johann Jacob Mussäus , also Jakob , completely Johann Jacob Nathanael Mussäus (born October 3, 1789 in Groß Methling, today part of Dargun ; † March 29, 1839 in Hanstorf, today part of Satow ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and folklorist.

Life

Mussäus came from a Mecklenburg academic family and was the son of pastor Johann Nathanael Mussäus. From 1803 he attended the large city school Rostock . From 1810 to 1812 he studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Rostock and Berlin. In 1813 he volunteered for military service in the Wars of Liberation and became a sergeant in the Mecklenburgian foot hunter regiment.

After two years as a private tutor in Malchin , he got a job as a teacher at the school in Ludwigslust in 1816 and became its rector in 1818. In 1822 he was appointed pastor in Hanstorf and Heiligenhagen , where he stayed until his death on Good Friday 1839.

On March 5, 1820, he had Elisabeth Sophie Luise, b. Franke (born February 18, 1800 in Malchin ), married. She died on December 18, 1830.

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In 1834, Mussäus was a founding member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology and the Mecklenburg Patriotic Association. He collected extensive material on fairy tales, sagas, proverbs and customs of the lower classes in Mecklenburg. Some of his studies appeared only after his death.

The Brothers Grimm used three of the stories Mussäus collected for their children's and house tales :

  • Der Zaunkönig , an animal tale (ATU 221), from the 4th edition of 1840 in place 171 (KHM 171);
  • The plaice , an animal fairy tale (ATU 250A), from the 4th edition from 1840 at position 172 (KHM 172) after Mussäus' The King's Choice Among Fishes . Ludwig Bechstein took it over from the same source in his New German Fairy Tale Book 1856 as The Fish King (No. 25);
  • Bittern and Hoopoe , a legend ( ATU 236 *), from the 4th edition of 1840 at position 173 (KHM 173).

monument

An obelisk in the churchyard of the village church in Hanstorf reminds of him.

Mussäus Obelisk in Hanstorf

Works

  • Attempt of a Low German language teaching with special consideration of the Mecklenburg dialect. Neustrelitz and Neubrandenburg: Dümmler 1829
  • About the lower classes in the flat countryside in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 2 (1837), pp. 107–140
  • (posthumous) Mecklenburg folk fairy tales. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 5 (1840), pp. 74-100
  • (posthumous) Low German idioms and proverbs. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 5 (1840), pp. 120–122
  • (posthumous) explanations of Mecklenburg place names. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 6 (1841), pp. 55–58

literature

  • Friedrich Brüssow: Johann Jacob Mussäus. In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 17/1 (1839), Ilmenau: Voigt 1841, pp. 344-348
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6928 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Jacob Mussäus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matriculation on May 10, 1810
personal data
SURNAME Mussäus, Johann Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mussäus, Johann Jakob; Mussäus, Johann Jacob Nathanael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Methling, today part of Dargun
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1839
Place of death Hanstorf, today part of Satow