Johann Meyer (Author)

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Johann Meyer
Meyer's grave in the south cemetery in Kiel
Monument in the Wilster city park by Heinrich Missfeldt

Johann Meyer (born January 5, 1829 in Wilster , † October 15, 1904 in Kiel ) was a German writer.

Life

Johann Hinrich Otto Meyer was the eldest son of the farmer and distillery owner Otto Meyer (1803–1864) and his wife Christine Dorothea, b. Lagesen (1801-1884). Soon after his birth, the family moved to the Dithmarscher Geestdorf Schaafstedt and in 1838 to Jörl . Meyer worked as a carpenter and miller until he was 21, then went to the Meldorf high school , studied in Kiel from 1854 to 1857 and then became a teacher in Altona. In 1859 he became editor of the Itzehoer Nachrichten. In 1862 he founded the psychiatric idiot institution in Kiel, which he led as director.

In addition to his job, Meyer was active as a writer, especially in the Low German language . Fritz Reuter and Alwine Wuthenow valued Meyer's poems, while Klaus Groth was rather critical of them. Numerous poems by Meyer were set to music, including a. by Emanuel Baldamus, Cornelius Gurlitt , Leon Jessel , Carl Reinecke , Claudius Serpenthien and L. Friedrich Witt .

In July 1889 Meyer was awarded the Crown Order IV class.

plant

  • Ditmarscher poems. 1st volume . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1858. ( digitized version )
  • Ditmarscher poems. 2nd volume . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1859.
  • Low German lever. A free translation of Hebel 's allemannic poems. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1859. ( digitized version )
  • From the ballad cycle, "Ut oln Tiden." I. Fru Powisch. II. The funeral. In: German war and victory songs. Collected and edited by Heinrich Zeise. Altona, 1864, pp. 77-80. ( Digitized version )
  • Grondunnersdag to Eckernför. An epic-lyrical poem in Ditmarsch dialect. Brauns, Leipzig 1873. ( digitized version )
  • Low German poems in Ditmarsch dialect. 2nd edition, published by JF Richter, Hamburg 1876; 3rd edition, Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel undated (1886).
  • Us' ole Modersprak. Low German Schwank in three acts. Richter, Hamburg.
  • High German poems. 2nd edition, Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1887.
  • Little things. Sayings in high German. Richter, Hamburg.
  • Johann Meyer's Complete Works. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel and Leipzig 1906.

literature

  • Johann Heinemann: Johann Meyer. Life and characteristics. In: Johann Meyer's Complete Works. part 1
  • Meyer, Johann Hinrich Otto . In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Vol. 4th 6th edition Leipzig 1913, p. 453 ( digitized version )
  • Eberhard Schmidt : Alwine Wuthenow. Letters to Johann Meyer . Bargeshagen 2017. ISBN 978-3-86785-425-2

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. Today a street in Kiel is named after Johann Meyer
  2. Among other things, poem to Alwine Wuthenow in the 3rd edition (1886) of the Low German poems. P. 593 f.
  3. ^ Arnold Hückstädt : Fritz Reuter letters. Volume 1, No. 306. Hinstorff, Rostock 2009, ISBN 978-3-356-01302-3 .
  4. “... a very dear poet was Johann Meier [sic] last year [..] How beautiful are his ballads ut olle Tied. You know his country and some very lovely little songs, so full of music, as if he had known how to listen to the language's deepest melancholy. ”In: Eberhard Schmidt: Correspondence between Alwine Wuthenow and Klaus Groth. Rostock 2006, p. 115, ISBN 978-3-89954-244-8
  5. “By Johann Meyer; It's bad, he took all his suggestions from the Quickborn, needs a lot of the same headings, the same thoughts, yes the same words. ”In: Elvira Hartig: Where the heart drives us. The diaries of Doris Groth geb. Finches. Heide 1985, ISBN 3-8042-0336-1 , p. 71.