Johann Wilhelm Wolf
Johann Wilhelm Wolf ( pseudonym Johannes Laicus ) (born April 23, 1817 in Cologne ; † June 28/29 , 1855 in the Philipp Hospital in Riedstadt ) was a German specialist in German studies and a writer .
Life
Wolf grew up in a strictly Catholic environment. Nothing is known about his training. Initially he worked in a commercial profession, but soon fled to Brussels , where he studied and collected popular Flemish traditions.
He went back to Cologne via Ghent . Around 1846 he married Marie von Ploennies, the daughter of the poet Luise von Plönnies (also Louise von Ploennies ), and moved with her to Darmstadt in 1847, and in 1848 to the house of his in-laws in Jugenheim . Together with his brother-in-law, the lieutenant and writer Wilhelm von Ploennies , he collected the material for collections of fairy tales and legends on forays through the Odenwald and during systematic questioning of soldiers from his company .
Wolf dedicated a number of theological essays to the veneration of Mary .
In 1854 he fell ill with a nervous disorder, which he fought with cures. Partially paralyzed and mentally deranged, Wolf died the following year in the sanatorium near Goddelau in Hesse.
Fonts
- Dutch sagas. Leipzig 1843 ( Google Books ).
- German fairy tales and legends. Leipzig 1845 ( Google Books ).
- De Broederhand. Tydschrift voor neder- en hoogduitsche letterkunde. Volume 1. Brussels 1845 ( Google Books ).
- Lily bells. To celebrate the month of Mary. Poems. Mainz 1851 ( Google Books ).
- German house fairy tales . Göttingen, Leipzig 1851 ( Google Books ).
- Lily bells to celebrate the month of Mary . Franz Kirchheim, Mainz 1851,
- The German doctrine of gods. A handbook and reader for school and home. According to Jacob Grimm et al. a. Göttingen, Leipzig 1852 ( Google Books ).
- Contributions to German mythology. Volume 1: Gods and Goddesses. Göttingen, Leipzig 1852 ( Google Books ); 2nd Abth. Göttingen 1857 ( Google Books ).
- From childhood. Memories. Göttingen 1852 (Catholic consolation solitude, vol. 1). Dass., 3rd edition, Franz Kirchheim, Mainz 1862 ( Google Books ); that. ud T. Old Cologne life. Renewed by Leonhard Kohrt, Butzon & Becker, Kevelaer 1909 (Münchner Volksschriften 59); that. and T. childhood in the old, holy Cologne , home, Saarlouis 1923 (heritage of German literature, vol. 64/65); that., ed. v. Hubert Schiel. Herder, Basel / Freiburg / Vienna 1959.
- Hessian legends. Leipzig 1853 ( Google Books ).
- Journal for German mythology and morality. Volume 1. Göttingen 1853 ( Google Books ); Volume 2. Göttingen 1855 ( Google Books ). Reprint: Sendet, Walluf near Wiesbaden 1972.
- (Editor, continued by Franz Joseph Holzwarth ): Catholic solitude for consolation. 15 vols., Franz Kirchheim, Mainz 1853–1861.
- Lost fairy tales. With a sheet of German landscape photographs. Franz Greno, Nördlingen 1988 ( The Other Library ).
literature
- Ludwig Fränkel : Wolf, Johann Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 765-777.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Wilhelm Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Johann Wilhelm Wolf in the German Digital Library
- Works by Johann Wilhelm Wolf at Zeno.org .
- Works by Johann Wilhelm Wolf in the Gutenberg-DE project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, Johann Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laicus, Johannes (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1855 or June 29, 1855 |
| Place of death | Philipp Hospital Riedstadt |