Johannes can

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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

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personal data
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