Joseph Joesten

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Heinrich Joseph Joesten (born June 21, 1850 in Düren , † September 25, 1909 in Bonn ) was a German civil servant and writer .

Life

Joesten studied law at the universities of Bonn and Berlin and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. In 1877 he became a court assessor at the Royal City Court in Berlin, and in 1879 a government assessor for the railway company in Elberfeld. From 1893 he lived in Cologne, where he was deputy chairman of the newly founded "Literary Society" and regional chairman of the "German Writers' Association for the Rhineland".

In 1898 he retired and moved to Bonn , where he shot himself for unknown reasons in 1909.

He emerged as a poet and biographer as well as with literary and cultural-historical writings.

family

Joesten was married to Amalie Freiin von Nesselrode-Hugenpoet. Their son was the writer and journalist Joachim Joesten (1907–1975).

Works (selection)

  • The railways and warfare. A politico-military study , Hamburg 1890
  • On the history of Windeck Castle , Elberfeld 1893
  • The Auerstädt canteen. Patriotic Drama , Cologne: Schmitz 1894
  • The demands of strategy and technology on the railways. Two lectures , Berlin: Eisenschmidt, 1894
  • Wolfgang Müller from Königswinter . His life and the significance of his works for the German people , Cologne 1895
  • History and system of railway use in war. A railway technical and military aid book , Leipzig 1896
  • My heart is on the Rhine. A memorial book for the erection of the Wolfgang Müller memorial in Königswinter . With a selection of Wolfgang Müller's seals , Cologne: Kölnische Verlags-Anstalt 1896
  • Literary life on the Rhine. Two studies , Leipzig: Grunow 1899
  • On the history of witches and Jews in Bonn. A cultural-historical study , Bonn: Georgi 1900
  • Of German mountains and castles. Windeck Castle on the Sieg , Cologne 1902
  • History of the Joesten family and their family foundations. At the same time communicated as a contribution to Rhenish cultural history , Bonn: Hanstein 1902
  • Cultural images from the Rhineland. Contributions to the history of intellectual and social movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries on the Rhine , Bonn: Georgi 1902
  • Memory of Bonn and the Siebengebirge . A bouquet of songs for the friend of nature and local poetry , Bonn: Hanstein 1903
  • Gottfried Kinkel . His life, striving and poetry for the German people. With a selection of Kinkel's seals , Cologne: Kölner Verlags-Anstalt und Druckerei 1904 ( digitized version )
  • Pictures and sketches from the Rhine , Cologne: Schmitz 1905
  • Friedrich Roeber . To celebrate the unveiling of his monument in Elberfeld , Elberfeld in 1906

Under the pseudonym "Hans von Windeck"

  • In the mirror of time. A bouquet of songs from home , Stuttgart 1892
  • Glorious mountains. Selected seals , Erfurt 1898

literature

  • Kürschner's Nekrolog (1901/35)
  • The Cologne Author's Lexicon , Volume 1 (1750–1900), Cologne: Emons 2000 (= messages from the Cologne City Archives , Issue 88/89)

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personal data
SURNAME Joesten, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1909
Place of death Bonn