Johann Traugott Mutschink

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Johann Traugott Mutschink

Johann Traugott Mutschink ( Upper Sorbian Jan Bohuwěr Mučink ; born September 12, 1821 in Nechen , † January 24, 1904 in Demitz ) was a Sorbian folk writer , teacher and local history researcher. In the middle of the 19th century he was one of the founders of secular Sorbian art prose and used the pseudonym "Horisław".

Life

Johann Traugott Mutschink was born in the then predominantly Sorbian village of Nechen as the son of the cottage worker and road worker Johann Mutschink and his wife Agnes, née Eiselt. With the support of the Saxon government, Mutschink, who came from a poor background, was able to take up training at the rural class teachers' seminar in Bautzen, where he and a. studied with Korla Awgust Kocor and Michael Rostock . After graduating from 1842, he was initially employed as an auxiliary teacher in Klix , Baruth , Bolbritz and Neschwitz . In 1845 Mutschink was appointed teacher in the new school in Demitz . After 45 years as a teacher in Demitz, he retired in 1890.

Act

In 1843 Mutschink took for the first time in the press in a political essay party for the Sorbian national movement, which had been assumed by German liberalists Pan-Slavist efforts in favor of Russia, and presented the awakening of Sorbian culture as the movement's goal. In 1847 he was one of the founding members of Maćica Serbska . In the revolutionary years of 1848 and 1849 he worked as secretary of the farmers' associations in Nedaschütz and Stacha . With his pamphlet published in 1849 "The people of Ribowc or a political story from the present" ("Ribowčenjo abo politiske powědančko z nětčišich časow") about the inhabitants of an idealized Sorbian village, Mutschink came into the sights of the Saxon authorities because of "strong democratic tendencies" . In 1850 his story "The Castle on the Görlitzer Landeskrone " ("Hród ​​na Zhorjelskej horje Landskrónje") was published. This was also reprimanded by the authorities and Mutschink was asked to maintain the loyalty and political neutrality required for teaching.

Subsequently, Mutschink published stories, poems, travelogues and essays in "Sächsischer Erzähler", "Gebirgsfreund" and other German magazines, which mainly dealt with natural events, agriculture, horticulture and beekeeping. He also published articles on the history of the Sorbian people and introduced Sorbian personalities. In 1856 a beekeeping association was founded in Demitz on Mutschink's initiative. In 1879 he left the Maćica Serbska.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Sorbs: Interesting facts from the past and present of the Sorbian national minority . 2nd Edition. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1966, p. 30 .

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SURNAME Mutschink, Johann Traugott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mučink, Jan Bohuwěr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian folk writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Nechen
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1904
Place of death Demitz