Johann Wilhelm Christern

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Johann Wilhelm Christern (born March 17, 1809 or 1811; † January 26, 1876 in Hamburg ) was a German writer and musician .

Life

Johann Wilhelm Christern was the son of a carpenter and initially attended the village school in Schönningstedt until he was 12 years old . Hungry for education, he then switched to the cathedral school in Ratzeburg under Johann Georg Rußwurm (1781–1848) and Zander , whose benevolence he was certain until he left school in autumn 1829. Coming from a humble background, he enjoyed the school level during his time in Ratzeburg and worked on the side as a company student. Since his parents could not finance his theology studies, Rector Rußwurm sent the musical Christians to Hamburg to study composition with Karl August Krebs for two years. From 1832 to 1841 he gave piano and singing lessons in Hamburg. In 1834 he got enthusiastic about Winckelmann and sold all his possessions to go to Italy, but only got as far as Switzerland. In 1837 the editor of the Hamburger Neue Zeitung, William Fischer, in whose house he gave music lessons, got him to write. Christern wrote cultural articles and reviews for the Neue Zeitung under the pseudonym Wilhelm von Reinbek , after he had already tried poetry in 1831 under the pseudonym Felix Rose . Among other things, he won Professors Zimmermann and Hipp as sponsors. In 1850 he lived as a music teacher in Reinbek . At the beginning of 1851 he gave a concert as a singer in Mölln and strove to work as an opera singer. Thereafter, his further career has not yet been researched. At times it is claimed that he was a doctor; besides all other diverse interests, he must have at least also been interested in natural science.

Fonts

At JW Christern only a non-exhaustive selection of his writings is possible. His contributions to the most varied of magazines are countless. His compositions and other writings can be found at Schröder, also without any claim to completeness.

  • Franz Liszt , [1841]
  • History of the free city of Hamburg and its constitution , 1843
  • The secrets of Hamburg , 1845
  • My captivity , 1846
  • History of the free city of Hamburg and its constitution from the beginning to the present day , 1846
  • Political album for Schleswig-Holstein , 1846
  • Hamburg and the Hamburgers , 1847
  • Doctor Eisele's and Baron von Beisele's trip to the Landtag in April 1847 , 1847
  • Unveiled secrets of prostitution in Hamburg , 1847
  • Ms. Schlegel's Lucinde , 1848
  • Poodle-mad trip to London in 1851 to the Industrial Exhibition of All Nations in the Glass Palace , 1851
  • A merchant , 1856
  • Hamburg prostitution , 1860
  • The false pepita or: air and fling of a dancer , 1862
  • Mattress balls or: Magic stories at the goldfish pond , 1862
  • Attempt of a pragmatic educational and development history of the Gospels , Perthes, Hamburg 1868

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Hans Schröder  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Hans Schröder reports that when he wrote the biography he had autobiographical résumés of Christern with both dates and the place of birth Karolinenhof near Glinde ; in the second case his birthday would have been on the same day as Karl Gutzkow .
  2. ^ The Hamburger Neue Zeitung was published between 1838 and 1846 as the successor to the Hamburgische Neue Zeitung and Adreß-Comptoir Nachrichten , 1826–1837 (see list of Hamburg newspapers in the Hamburg State and University Library)