Joseph Georg Meinert
Joseph Georg Meinert (born February 22, 1773 in Leitmeritz ; † May 15, 1844 in Partschendorf in Moravia) was a Bohemian folk song collector, cultural historian and philosopher. His work Der Fylgie was the first academic edition of dialect folk songs in German-speaking countries.
Life
After attending high school in his hometown, Meinert studied philosophy and law at Charles University in Prague and continued his studies in Jena from 1795 . In 1799 Meinert submitted his dissertation De notione idealium eorumque vi ad felicitatem hominum doctorate , then taught at the academic grammar school in Prague and in 1806 received a professorship for aesthetics and history at Charles University as the successor to August Gottlieb Meißner .
Meinert was editor of the weekly Der bohmische Wandersmann , which was also published in Czech as Český poutník , and the magazine Libussa . He was one of the first German-speaking folk song collectors. In 1811 Meinert retired due to a larynx disease and moved to Bartošovice , where he and the grande dame Josephine Countess von Pachta founded an extramarital partnership from which his two children Hugo and Fanny emerged. After the death of his partner, Meinert had a mausoleum built in Partschendorf based on the Weimar royal crypt in 1833 , in which he and his son who died in an accident also found their final resting place.
Meinert was friends with the romantics Joseph von Eichendorff and Clemens Brentano .
Works
- Hymn to Peace , 1798
- Speech on the interests of aesthetics, pedagogy, history of learning and philosophy , 1807
- The Fylgie. Old German folk songs in the dialect of the Kuhländchen / explained and edited by Joseph George Meinert. Volume 1. Perthes and Beßer, Vienna and Hamburg, 1817; Reprint: Marburg: Elwert, 1987, ISBN 3-7708-0873-8
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Meinert, Joseph Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 17th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1867, p. 281 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Rudolf Müller: Meinert, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 226 f.
- KM Klier – J. Posner: Meinert Joseph Georg. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 195 f. (Direct links to p. 195 , p. 196 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph Georg Meinert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Joseph Georg Meinert Biography (Czech)
Individual evidence
- ↑ KM Klier – J. Posner: Meinert Joseph Georg. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 195 f. (Direct links to p. 195 , p. 196 ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meinert, Joseph Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian philosopher, author and collector of folk songs |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1773 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leitmeritz |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1844 |
| Place of death | Partschendorf |