Johann Straubenmüller
Johann Straubenmüller , later John Straubenmuller (born May 11, 1814 in Schwäbisch Gmünd , † November 12, 1897 in Manhattan , New York ) was a German-American teacher and poet and a member of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn's gymnastics movement .
As a non-permanent teacher he worked in Ellwangen , Stuttgart , Schwäbisch Gmünd and Horb . In 1848 the gymnast fought for freedom with speeches and poems. For example, he railed against the Bundestag :
“You Metternich spirits
pack up and go home!
The people are masters of themselves
and your game is over! "
A poem that appeared in the Black Forest messenger led to his arrest for inciting high treason. "Pardoned" to emigrate, he was unable to find a job in Switzerland. Efforts to get a job at a private educational establishment in Stuttgart should be said by Minister Duvernoy with the words As long as Straubenmüller is in the country, there is still no rest! have thwarted.
In 1852 Straubenmüller moved to North America. In Baltimore he worked as a teacher and organist. From 1863 to 1876 he was director of the "Free German School" in New York .
His most extensive work is the epic " Pocahontas , or: The founding of Virginia" ( Baltimore 1858).
literature
- Johann Straubenmüller . In: Yearbooks of the German-American. Turnerei 1 (1892), pp. 179-181 Internet Archive .
- Anton König. In: Magazin für Pädagogik 1910, pp. 27–28.
- Rudolf Krauss . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Edited by Anton Bettelheim. 2 (1898), p. 290 Internet Archive .
- Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Vol. 7th 6th edition Leipzig, 1913, p. 111f. DTA .
- Albert Deibele . In: Gmünder Heimatblätter 10 (1937), pp. 61–62.
- Patrick Henßler: "Let's go forward and imperceptibly found rich people" - Swabian revolutionaries in the United States of America: on the continuity of political attitudes . (European university publications: series 3, history and its auxiliary sciences, vol. 10). Frankfurt am Main u. a .: Lang 2008 ISBN 9783631574720
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Straubenmüller, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and political author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwäbisch Gmünd |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1897 |
| Place of death | Manhattan , New York |