Josef Gabriel the Elder

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Josef Gabriel the Elder

Josef Gabriel the Elder (* 1853 in Mercydorf , Austrian Empire ; † 1927 there ) was an Austro-Hungarian dialect poet from the Banat .

Life

Josef Gabriel came from the Banat Swabian ethnic group and attended elementary school in Mercydorf. From an early age he was involved in his parents' farm and kept this activity as an adult. He studied the German language independently and published his first poems at the age of 21. Gabriel was married three times and had nine children. He was respected by the German-speaking peasant population of Mercydorf, but was rated as a " Pangermanist " by the educated Magyar village elite .

He bears the suffix “the elder” to distinguish him from his nephew, the German poet Josef Gabriel the Younger .

In 1934, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the founding of Mercydorf, a plaque was placed on the house where he was born.

Publications

  • Poems by Josef Gabriel. Farmer. In two departments. I: Department: Lyric Poems, II. Department: Poems in Banat-Swabian dialect , self-published, Temesvar 1889
  • Josef Gabriel the Elder. Poems. Selected from the estate and introduced by Hans Diplich, Timisoara 1937
  • Schwowische Gätzle from the Banat. Poems in Banat Swabian dialect. Publishing house of the House of Folk Art, Timișoara 1969.
  • Selected works, Josef Gabriel the Elder / Josef Gabriel the Younger. Freiburg im Breisgau 1985.

literature

  • William Marin: Josef Gabriel. Life and work in words and pictures. Criterion, 1988.
  • Hans Gehl : Dictionary of the Danube Swabian clothing industry. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-79952-506-8 , p. 58.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Peter Petri : Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums . Breit Druck und Verlag GmbH, Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
personal data
SURNAME Gabriel, Joseph the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Mercydorf , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1927
Place of death Mercydorf , Austrian Empire