Julie Eyth

Julie Eyth.

Julie Eyth , b. Julie Capoll (born January 17, 1816 in Heilbronn , † April 12, 1904 in Neu-Ulm ) was a German writer. From 1842 to 1853 she was a freelancer for the Christian yearbook “ Christoterpe ”, in which she published her pietistic aphorisms. In 1852 she published a collection of her aphorisms, the number of which she increased to over 1,000 in subsequent editions by 1894. Julie Eyth was the mother of the engineering writer Max Eyth .

Life

Julie Eyth b. Capoll was born on January 17, 1816 in Heilbronn as the eldest of the 3 daughters of the chief customs administrator Max Christoph Capoll († 1831) and the daughter of the court silversmith Wilhelmine Sick. Her two younger sisters were Wilhelmine and Amalie Capoll. At the age of 19, Julie married in 1835 the classical philologist Eduard Eyth , who was 7 years her senior , who later became director of the Protestant theological seminary in Schöntal and then in Blaubeuren.

Julie Eyth and Eduard Eyth.

The marriage had three children: the engineering writer Max Eyth (1836–1906), Julie Kraut verw. Conz born Eyth (1839–1896) and Eduard Wilhelm Eyth (1851–1875). The daughter died in 1896 at the age of 57, eight years before her mother. The son Eduard Wilhelm, who like Max had become an engineer, died on a business trip to Cuba at the age of 24 of a tropical fever. Julie's husband died in 1884 at the age of almost 75. She survived him by 20 years and died in Neu-Ulm in 1904 at the age of 88. Like her husband, she was buried in the New Cemetery in Ulm. The graves were closed in 1969, in field 13, about 20 meters from the original location, the grave slab of Eduard Eyth is still preserved.

In 1896, Julie's 60-year-old son Max Eyth moved from Berlin to Neu-Ulm to live with his 80-year-old mother at Friedrichstrasse 19 (now Hermann-Köhl-Strasse 19), but maintained a second home in Ulm that served as a work residence. He looked after his ailing and increasingly mentally confused mother until her death. Then he moved his apartment to Ulm. Max Eyth survived his mother by two years and died in Ulm in 1906.

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Julie Eyth was an aphorist. She published her numerous aphorisms over 12 years in the Christoterpe yearbook and in 1852 in the anthology "Pictures without frames".

Christoterpe

From 1842 Julie Eyth, like her husband, worked as a freelancer for the Christian yearbook Christoterpe, which was published by the pietistic pastor Albert Knapp , a friend of her husband. The yearbook was published until 1853, and Julie Eyth made contributions to every volume (except 1852). Under the title

"Pictures without a frame: communicated from the papers of a stranger - not by herself"

her husband anonymously published her pietistic, edifying aphorisms, sometimes also short parable-like stories. Julie Eyth did not publish her contributions under her name, as female writers feared public ridicule. Your contributions comprised between 7 and 15 printed pages and consisted of an average of 50 witty and original aphorisms.

Pictures without a frame

In 1852 Julie Eyth published a collection of her aphorisms also anonymously in the Karl Winter university bookstore in Heidelberg, where the Christoterpe yearbook was also published. In the foreword she wrote:

"For a long time, the further wish for a collection of the whole has been expressed, which is now offered with some new additions in a book."

By 1851, the number of her aphorisms that she published in Christoterpe had grown to around 450. For the collection she increased the number by over 200 to 675. An alphabetical index made it easier to find the aphorisms by subject. In a second section, the collection contained seven parable stories.

The book was well received by the readers and was also published in a Swedish and a Dutch translation. 8 editions were published by 1894, each time increased by further aphorisms. In the 7th edition, the number of aphorisms had grown to over 1000.

Julie's husband Eduard Eyth published a collection of his poems in 1856 under the title "Pictures in Frames". The title alludes to the bound language of his poems (“in frame”), while Julie Eyth wrote her aphorisms in prose (“without frame”). The son Max Eyth originally intended the title “Pictures on the Path” for his book “Behind Plow and Vice”, an allusion to the two works of his parents.

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  Front page.

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  Cover picture (oasis).

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  Text page.

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  Index page.

Publications

• Julie Eyth: Pictures without a frame: communicated from the papers of a stranger - not by herself. In: Christoterpe, 1842–1851, 1853, digital edition by Christoterpe .
• Julie Eyth: Pictures without a frame: communicated from the papers of a stranger - not by herself. Heidelberg: Karl Winter, 1852, pdf .

literature

• Eduard Eyth: Pictures in frames: Poems. Heidelberg: Winter, 1856.
• Paul Gehring:  Eyth, Eduard Friedrich Maximilian von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 714 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ute Harbusch: Max Eyth: writer and engineer; with steam and imagination; (1836-1906). Kirchheim unter Teck: Städtisches Museum, 2006.
• Rudolf Krauss : Swabian Literature History. Volume 2: The Württemberg literature in the nineteenth century. Freiburg im Breisgau: Mohr, 1899, pages 238–239.
• Rudolf Krauss :  Eyth, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 464 f.
• Hans Radspieler: Portraits of Neu-Ulm. In: Barbara Treu: City of Neu-Ulm, 1869– 1994: Texts and images on history. On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the city's elevation. Neu-Ulm: Stadtarchiv, 1994, pages 542–573, here: 546–548.

Web links

Commons : Julie Eyth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ↑ # Gehring 1959 , # Krauss 1904 .
2. ↑ #Harbusch 2006 , pp. 106-107.
3. ↑ #Harbusch 2006 , pp. 65–67, 106.
4. ↑ #Eyth 1852 , page III.
5. ↑ # Krauss 1904 .
6. ↑ #Eyth 1856 .
7. ↑ #Harbusch 2006 , pp. 73–74.