Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal
Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal (born February 25, 1753 in Halberstadt ; † June 21, 1819 there ) was a German theologian, philologist, writer and storyteller.
Life
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Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal was the son of the theologian Georg Christian Nachtigal, chief preacher at the Paulskirche in Halberstadt. He attended the cathedral school in his hometown, the Stephaneum, and studied theology , philology and natural history at the University of Halle from 1771 to 1773 . After completing his studies, he returned to the Halberstadt Cathedral School, where he was initially a teacher and from 1800 its director. In 1800 he was also appointed consistorial councilor. Among other things, he dealt with the dating of the scriptures in the Old Testament . In 1808 he received an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of the University of Halle. From 1812 to 1816 Nachtigal was general superintendent of the Principality of Halberstadt , the counties of Hohenstein and Mansfeld until the consistory was dissolved by the new provincial division of Prussia .
In 1800 the first German collection of sagas with a scientific claim appeared under the pseudonym Otmar under the title Volcks-Sagen. Retold by Otmar . The collection contains 24 texts of different styles, some in several versions. Nachtigal assured that he had faithfully retold his sagas, but a tendency towards romantic and transfigurative embellishment of the texts cannot be overlooked. He dealt extensively with the genre Sage . In doing so, he used statements that he had already published three years earlier in the magazine Erholungen . Based on Herder , whom he knew personally, he regarded oral legends as historical evidence for culturally underrepresented groups. The Brothers Grimm name the Otmarsche Collection 21 times in the German sagas published in 1816/18 among their sources (15 times as the sole model).
influence
The folk tale The goatherd served as inspiration for the better-known narrative Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving .
Fonts
- Volcks sagas. Retold by Otmar . Wilmans, Bremen 1800 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library)
- Fragments on the Gradual Formation of the Scriptures of the Israelites. In: Magazine for Philosophy of Religion, Exegesis and Church History.
- Johann Carl Christoph Nachtigal: Biography [...], written by himself and with some of his school speeches on interesting subjects , edited by Johann Gottfried Hoche . FA Helm, Halberstadt 1820.
literature
- Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Depicted after her life and work , Vol. 3: N-Scho . Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla 1833, pp. 1–9.
- Ines Köhler-Zülch : Nachtigal (l), Johann Carl (Conrad) Christoph . In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales . Concise dictionary for historical and comparative narrative research 9 . Berlin / New York 1999, pp. 1125-1128.
- Gerda Riedl : Nightingale, Johann Carl Christoph . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon. Authors and works in the German language , Vol. 8: Mat – Ord . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1990, pp. 325f.
- Arthur Richter: Nachtigal, Johann Konrad Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 199 f.
Footnotes
- ↑ Heinrich Döring: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Depicted after her life and work , vol. 3, p. 1.
- ↑ digitized version
- ↑ Andrew Burstein: The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving . Basic Books, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-465-00853-7 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nachtigal, Johann Karl Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian, philologist, writer and narrative researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1753 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halberstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1819 |
| Place of death | Halberstadt |