Julie Hausmann

Title page of the "May flowers"

Julie Katharina Hausmann - Latvian Jūlija Hausmane - (* March 7th ^July / March 19, 1826 ^greg. In Riga ; † August 2 ^July / August 15, 1901 ^greg. In Võsu , Estonia ) was a German-Baltic poet, which achieved world fame primarily through her poem So take my hands . With a melody composed by Friedrich Silcher for another song as early as 1842 , it became a well-known hymn.

Live and act

Julie Hausmann was born as the fifth of six daughters of the high school teacher Johannes Michael von Hausmann and his wife Julie, nee. of Magnus, born. She spent her childhood and youth in Mitau (Latvian: Jelgava) in Courland . Little is known about this phase of life, but it is known that Pastor Theodor Neander, who confirmed her, gave her the impetus for a conscious life in the Christian faith. This was expressed, among other things, in the fact that she wrote spiritual poems. Perhaps this also showed her shyness and general restraint, which did not leave her speechless. Olga von Karp, a friend, arranged contact with the Berlin pastor Gustav Knak , who wrote her poems, including the famous So take my hands , in 1862 under the title May flowers. Published songs of a silent in the country with good success. Julie Hausmann donated the proceeds to social institutions in Berlin and Hong Kong.

Julie's sister Johanna, a trained organist , got a job in the Anglican parish in Biarritz (southern France) in 1864 , where she took Julie with her.

In 1899 Julie Hausmann published a 700-page devotional book with brief reflections for servants and named it Homemade Bread. Simple morning and evening devotions .

Julie Hausmann was not married. However, there is one story that cannot be substantiated: She was engaged to a missionary who died when she arrived at the mission station. The poem So take my hands was created out of this emotional situation .

Julie Hausmann died during a vacation in the Russian Baltic Sea resort of Wösso (Estonian: Võsu).

Works

Mayflowers. Songs of a silent one in the country. 2 volumes, 1862 ( 6th edition around 1880: title page volume 1 )
Images from the life of the night in the light of the Gospel. 1868.
House bread. Simple morning and evening devotions. 1899.
Flowers from God's garden. Songs and poems. 1902 (posthumous anthology)

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Hausmann, Julie. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 606-607. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Hermann Barth: Julie Hausmann. In: Our hymn poets. Life and character images. Hamburg 1905, p. 619 ff.
Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 550 f .
Wolfgang Herbst : 376 - So take my hands . In: Martin Evang, Ilsabe Seibt (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch . No. 20 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-50343-0 , p. 59–63 , doi : 10.13109 / 9783666503436.59 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Elisabeth Schneider-Böklen: The Lord did great things for me. Women in the hymn book. Quell, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-7918-1969-0 , pp. 75-89.
Elisabeth Schneider-Böklen: Hausmann, Julie. In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, p. 134 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Wikisource: Julie Hausmann - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Julie Hausmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Julie Hausmann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Julie Katharina von Hausmann. In: The Cyber Hymnal. 5th August 2018.; accessed on October 12, 2018
Michael Fischer: So take my hands. (pdf, 319 kB) In: FreiDok plus. Freiburg University Library, January 2005 .; accessed on October 12, 2018

Individual evidence

↑ The name is often incorrectly given as Julie von Hausmann. However, the title of nobility was personally bestowed on her father as a councilor in 1856 and was not hereditary. See: Karl Röhrig: The original text of “So take my hands”. In: Monthly for worship and church art 30 (1925), H. 4/5, ZDB -ID 221087-3 , pp. 115–117 ( digitized version ).
↑ Entry in the baptismal register of St. Jacobi Church in Riga (Latvian: Rīgas sv. Jēkaba katedrāle)
↑ Entry in the burial register of Haljall municipality (Estonian: Haljala kogudus)
↑ Waldtraut Ingeborg Sauer-Geppert: So take my hands ... In: Yearbook for Liturgy and Hymnology. Vol. 27 (1983), pp. 207-217.
↑ A version of the legend about the origin of the song. In: www.alexander-hengstler.de. Retrieved October 21, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hausmann, Julie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hausmann, Julie Katharina (full name); Hausmann, Julie von (wrong name form); Hausmane, Jūlija (Latvian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic spiritual poet
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH	Riga
DATE OF DEATH	August 15, 1901
Place of death	Võsu , Estonia

[1] The name is often incorrectly given as Julie von Hausmann. However, the title of nobility was personally bestowed on her father as a councilor in 1856 and was not hereditary. See: Karl Röhrig: The original text of “So take my hands”. In: Monthly for worship and church art 30 (1925), H. 4/5, ZDB -ID 221087-3 , pp. 115–117 ( digitized version ).

[2] Entry in the baptismal register of St. Jacobi Church in Riga (Latvian: Rīgas sv. Jēkaba katedrāle)

[3] Entry in the burial register of Haljall municipality (Estonian: Haljala kogudus)

[4] Waldtraut Ingeborg Sauer-Geppert: So take my hands ... In: Yearbook for Liturgy and Hymnology. Vol. 27 (1983), pp. 207-217.

[5] A version of the legend about the origin of the song. In: www.alexander-hengstler.de. Retrieved October 21, 2016 .