Joseph Misson

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Joseph Misson (born March 14, 1803 in Mühlbach am Manhartsberg , Lower Austria , † June 28, 1875 in Vienna ) was a Catholic clergyman and Austrian dialect poet .

Life

Misson was the eighth child of the merchant Giovanni Battista Misson, who immigrated from Udine in northern Italy . The mother came from Zemling . Joseph attended grammar school in Krems an der Donau and then entered the Piarist order as a novice in 1823 . In 1826 he worked for the first time as a teacher in Horn , 1827 in Krems, 1828 again in Horn, from 1832 to 1836 again in Krems, where he was ordained a priest in 1834 . In 1837 he taught as a grammar professor in Horn, in 1838 for the first time in Vienna at the Josefstädter Collegium, in 1839 at the grammar school in Freistadt in Upper Austria, from 1840 to 1843 again in Horn, then until 1846 at the Collegium St. Thekla auf der Wieden in Vienna. Misson lived in Krems an der Donau from 1846 to 1853, where he was elected chaplain of the National Guard in the sister city of Stein during the revolution of 1848/49 . From 1854 until his death Misson lived as a librarian at St. Thekla College in Vienna . At an early age he became increasingly hard of hearing , which hindered him in his teaching profession and which ultimately led to complete deafness .

Joseph Misson died in Vienna at the age of 72 and was given a grave of honor in the Central Cemetery in 1900 .

Awards

On May 16, 1936, an artistically significant Misson memorial was unveiled in the town of Horn . In his home town of Mühlbach there is now a Misson Museum in the house where he was born, the creator of which is the dialect researcher Prof. Walther Sohm , and the Lower Austrian Joseph Misson Association is dedicated to the memory of the poet.

In 1956, Missongasse in Vienna- Penzing (14th district) was named after him. In 1975 the Austrian Post issued a special postage stamp on the 100th anniversary of Joseph Misson's death. In Krems an der Donau , as in many other towns in the Waldviertel, a street was named after him.

Artistic creation

In 1850 the first eight chants of his main work, Da Naz, a Lower Austrian farmer's book, went in d 'Fremd . It is a verse epic in hexameters , which was written in the native dialect of the poet. In linguistic terms, the Naz is an authentic linguistic monument of the Lower Austrian dialect. In poetic terms, the work is characterized by warmth of the heart, popular piety, beautiful descriptions of nature, depiction of everyday rural life, but also by humor. Da Naz represents a high point of Austrian dialect poetry. Although connoisseurs soon recognized the importance of the work, the poet did not get the recognition he had hoped for, and the epic was not continued - possibly for health reasons.

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Misson, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1868, p. 365 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Karl Boromäus Landsteiner: About Lower Austrian dialect literature , with special consideration of Misson's and Strobl's poems . Annual reports of the kk Staatsgymnasium in the 8th district of Vienna, Vienna 1880
  • W. Sohm:  Misson P. Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 320.
  • Walther Sohm, Joseph Misson and the Waldviertel , Das Waldviertel 18, 1969, p. 178.
  • Walther Sohm, The Misson birthplace became a Misson memorial , Das Waldviertel 24, 1975, p. 184 ff.
  • Walther Sohm, A funny incident from Misson's Horner time , Das Waldviertel 25, 1976, p. 159.
  • Walther Sohm, The dialect poetry in Lower Austria . Vienna 1980.
  • Walther Sohm, The Misson House in Mühlbach am Manhartsberg then and now , Das Waldviertel 33, 1984, p. 32 ff.
  • Walther Sohm, Joseph Misson Memorial in Mühlbach am Manhartsberg , contributions to local history 32, Hollabrunn 1991, p. 124.
  • Walther Sohm, information sheet “Joseph-Misson-Haus” in Mühlbach aM , June 1997.
  • Hans Frühwirth: Your love was for Krems. Cultural Office of the City of Krems, Krems 1997, ISBN 3-901664-01-9 .

Web links

Commons : Joseph Misson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. Joseph Misson: "Da Naz," a Lower Austrian Bauernbui, goes in d'Fremd. Poem in American dialect . Carl Gerold Sohn, Vienna 1850
    new edition ed. by Walter Sohm, with woodcuts by Franz Traunfellner, Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn (Lower Austria) 1968
  2. Organ Summer in the Lucerne Court Church , page 18 (accessed March 1, 2014)