Johann Karl Kell
Johann Karl Kell (born March 7, 1693 in Zwochau ; † after 1726) was a German poet of spiritual poetry and probably identical to Le Pansiv , a pseudonymous author of crude , erotic student poetry .
Life
His work Poetic Grilling, Caught by Idle Hours, published in 1729, contains a 254-page collection of erotic sonnets , epigrams , quodlibets and sometimes rather filthy student songs , which continue to appear in poetry anthologies as examples of genre and time. As an example of the following quatrains that are still pertinent today and convincing by their sublime simplicity:
The blonde makes
a tendre mine;
But the brunette
rather lies down on the bed.
Little is known of Johann Karl Kell, the poet of the Spiritual Odes (1726). He was the son of the Protestant pastor Johann Michael Kell (1646–1719) and his wife Christine Sibylle (born Sultzberger 1661–1748). He studied in Leipzig from 1713 and matriculated on January 16, 1719 at the University of Wittenberg . In 1726 the Sulamithin, who lifted her heart up to God through spiritual odes , appeared together with three other poems. Kell does not seem to have stepped further. According to Adelung's additions to Jöcher's General Scholarly Lexicon , Kell passed away "because of his poor health". An exact date of death is not known.
Based on the information contained in the Poetic Crickets and a comparison with the register of the University of Leipzig, Johannes Bolte came to the conclusion in an article published in 1913 about the identity of the author of the Poetic Crickets that Johann Karl Kell is behind the pseudonym Le Pansiv .
Works
- The Sulamithess, who raises her heart to God through spiritual odes: wobey, instead of an appendix, still present: 1. David's complaint about his loyal friend Jonathan and dead Printz Absolon; 2. The afflicted Jephtha; 3. The weeping Peter. GM bones, Frankfurt a. M. 1726.
- Le Pansiv: poetic crickets, caught during idle hours. Erfurt 1729, 10823506 in VD 18 .
literature
- Johannes Bolte : Who was the poet Le Pansiv? In: Journal of the Association for Folklore , Volume 23, 1913, pp. 392–394, digitized
- Steffen Jacobs (Ed.): Sluggish! The lecherous lyrics of the Germans. Eichborn, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8218-5815-9 , poems by Le Pansiv pp. 148, 224.
- Kell (Johann Carl) . In: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher , Johann Christoph Adelung : General learned lexicon. Continuation and additions. Volume 3. 1810.
- Kell (Io. Carolus) . In: Johann Kaspar Wetzel : Hymnopoeographia, or historical biography of the most famous song poets. Volume 4. Herrnstadt 1728.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from Steffen Jacobs (Ed.): Liederlich! Berlin 2008, p. 148
- ↑ Bolte: Who was the poet Le Pansiv? In: Journal of the Association for Folklore , Volume 23, 1913, p. 394.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kell, Johann Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Le Pansiv (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet of sacred poetry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1693 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwochau |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1726 |