Joseph Pape

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Joseph Pape (born April 4, 1831 in Eslohe , † May 16, 1898 in Büren ) was a German lawyer and writer .

Life

Birthplace

He was born the son of a farmer in Eslohe. His father died on October 24, 1831 shortly after his birth. Thereupon his mother first moved in with her uncle, the local pastor. After his death in 1841, she and her son moved to live with another uncle in Hellefeld . This was also a pastor there. The pastor's visitors at that time included personalities such as the painter Heinrich von Rustige . In the years that followed, the clergyman prepared young Pape for high school. Four years later, Pape went to the Laurentianum Gymnasium in Arnsberg . There he met his classmate Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme . Both federations have been friends since then. Pape dedicated his first poems to him and met the poet Christoph Bernhard Schlueter through Grimme .

In 1849, Pape passed the school leaving examination with distinction. He then studied law, initially at the University of Munich and from 1850 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . A year later he moved to the University of Berlin . From 1853 to 1857 he was a court trainee in Arnsberg. In 1857 Pape passed his assessor examination. In 1861 he started a family and settled in Hilchenbach as a lawyer and notary. He later fell ill with Graves' disease and moved to Büren in 1866 for family reasons. There he worked at the district court. In 1885 he was appointed to the Council of Justice. Joseph Pape died in 1898 after a long illness.

Works (selection)

  • Bertha Maria: Play in three acts (previously published by Friedrich von Spee) Cologne, 1863
  • The lovers from Andernach: Patriotic tragedy in five acts, Paderborn, 1869
  • Iut'm Siuerlanne, Schöningh, Paderborn 1878
  • Das Kaiser-Schauspiel, published by Christ. Hagen, Büren, 1886

Honors

  • The street in Eslohe where the house where he was born was named after him.
  • There is also a street in Büren named after Joseph Pape.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eslohe - Joseph Pape.Retrieved June 6, 2010
  2. ^ Joseph Pape in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  3. ↑ Joseph Pape in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB), accessed on June 6, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Pape, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Eslohe
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1898
Place of death Büren