Johannes can
Johannes Valentin Dose (born August 23, 1860 in Ødis , Schleswig ; † February 17, 1933 in Haderslev ) was a German writer .
Life
Johannes Dose came from a small family: his father was the day laborer and court usher Jens Jacobsen Dose. The family was based in the Danish part of Schleswig and after the German-Danish peace treaty of 1864 they moved to the now Prussian Hadersleben . Thanks to the support of patrons John can could a school - the Haderslebener Cathedral School - visit and then at the Universities in Kiel and Leipzig , a study of theology and philosophy graduate. He then went through training at the preacher's seminary in Hadersleben, which he completed with the second theological exam . Dose worked as an assistant preacher in Astrup and Norburg . After - for political reasons - his hopes of a regular parish had smashed box went to the 1889 United States , where he first in Otoe / Nebraska a Lutheran congregation emigrated East Frisian farmers as priest in charge and later as a teacher at a orphanage in Philadelphia was active.
In 1893 Johannes Dose returned to Schleswig . He began to publish literary texts. From 1902 he worked as a private teacher in Lübeck . During this time there was a lawsuit against Johannes Dose, which a cousin had brought against him because he saw himself insulted and vilified by the portrayal of himself in Dose's novel Ein Muttersohn . Caused a stir in this context, the (futile) attempt Doses, Thomas Mann as defense witnesses to be loaded, since tin's Buddenbrooks - as initially many readers - as a key and scandalous novel ( Bilseroman ) had misunderstood. From 1908 Dose lived in Hamburg and from 1917 in Ulfshuus near Hadersleben . His grave is on Assistens Kirkegård in Haderslev .
Johannes Dose was a widely read author in northern Germany in the first decades of the twentieth century . His literary work includes novels , short stories and poems , most of which deal with topics from the history of Schleswig and are strongly influenced by Dose's Protestant faith.
Works
- Heimatlieder , Norden 1898
- Magister Vogelius , Altenburg 1899
- The Lord of the Church of Westerwohld , Wolfenbüttel 1900
- Mrs. Treue , Leipzig 1901
- Easter on the Prairie , Berlin 1901
- The Easter Battle , Berlin 1901
- The Drummer von Düppel , Munich 1901
- The fire worshiper , Kassel 1902
- A Stephanus in Germany , Schwerin 1902
- The Cossack Bride , Schwerin 1903
- The fight of the cross for Dannevirke , Schwerin 1903
- The Easter test , Berlin 1903
- The treasure digger , Gütersloh 1903
- Edelinde , Glückstadt 1904
- Frauenherzen , Schwerin 1904 (2 volumes)
- Friedlieb , Schwerin 1904
- The mother's son , Glückstadt 1904
- The winners from Bornhöved , Schwerin 1904
- Treasure hunter and treasure finder , Schwerin 1905
- The city of happiness and other stories , Schwerin 1905
- The hero of Wittenberg and Worms , Düsseldorf 1906
- The paternoster maker from Lübeck , Schwerin 1906
- Before the flood , Schwerin 1906
- Invented and found , Schwerin 1907
- Doctor Luther's friend , Bielefeld 1908
- Luther stories , Wismar 1908
- Not famous heroes , Bielefeld 1908
- One of Anno Thirteen , Wismar 1908 (2 volumes)
- King Tetzlaw and his brief advice , Leipzig 1910
- Pastor and teacher , Wismar 1910
- A Bonapartefeind , Leipzig 1911 (2 volumes)
- The holy battle of freedom and peoples , Barmen 1912
- In the battle for the Nordmark , Potsdam 1912
- An old African , Wismar 1913
- Düppel , Wismar 1914
- Just a train soldier , Barmen-U. 1914
- In the air and in the sea , Elberfeld-Sonnborn 1915
- The blank Hans , Leipzig 1916
- Volunteers and involuntaries , Stuttgart 1916
- Big and Little Klaus , Halle (Saale) 1916
- The corpse in the suitcase , Halle (p.) 1916
- My country must be bigger! , Halle (Saale) 1916
- The mine trap , Berlin 1916
- Home Heroes , Heilbronn 1918
- The earth fire , Essen 1919
- The cholera coffin , Chemnitz 1920
- Dr. Friedberg and Krispin Binder , Chemnitz 1920
- Rungholts Ende , Hamburg [u. a.] 1921
- A bloody fool's game at the Dänenhof , Leipzig 1922
- Stone ax and bronze sword , Hamburg 1924
literature
- Ernst Kammerhoff: Johannes Dose, the joyful singer of the Nordmark , Leipzig 1910
- Manfred-Guido Schmitz: Dose, Johannes Valentin. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 32, Bautz, Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88309-615-5 , Sp. 235-244.
Web links
- "An old African" as a free audio book at LibriVox.org
- Works by Johannes Dose in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Antiquarian pages with images of Dose's works
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Can, Johannes |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dose, Johannes Valentin (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 23 August 1860 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ødis , Schleswig |
DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1933 |
Place of death | Haderslev |